grunt-markup-markdown

Grunt markup parser with customizable markup rules. Initially set up to parse Markdown markup language.

Getting started

This plugin requires Grunt v0.4.0+.

If you haven’t used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you’re familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-markup-markdown --save-dev

The 'markup-markdown' task

Add this

grunt.loadTasks('grunt-markup-markdown');

// Project configuration.
grunt.initConfig({
  'markup-markdown': {
    options: {
      rules: [{
        pattern: /## ([^*\n]+)\n/g,
        replacement: '<headline data-headline-role="h2">$1</headline>'
      }, {
        pattern: /# ([^*\n]+)\n/g,
        replacement: '<headline data-headline-role="h1">$1</headline>'
      }, {
        pattern: /\*\*([^*]+)\*\*/g,
        replacement: '<strong data-strong-role="ci">$1</strong>'
      }, {
        pattern: /\*([^*]+)\*/g,
        replacement: '<em>$1</em>'
      }, {
        pattern: /\[([^\]]+)?\]\(([^)]*)?\)/g,
        replacement: '<a href="$2">$1</a>'
      }]
    },
    files: [{
      src: 'tmp/dev/i18n/locale-en.markdown.json',
      dest: 'tmp/dev/i18n/locale-en.json'
    }]
  }
});