Converting markdown to html before sending to email service

Author: Vikas Agarwal

package.json

@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@
     "sequelize": "^4.21.0",
     "superagent": "^3.8.0",
     "tc-core-library-js": "appirio-tech/tc-core-library-js.git#v2.2",
-    "winston": "^2.2.0"
+    "winston": "^2.2.0",
+    "remarkable": "^1.7.1"
   },
   "engines": {
     "node": "6.x"

src/app.js

@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ function startKafkaConsumer(handlers) {
                       name: user.firstName + ' ' + user.lastName,
                       handle: user.handle,
                       topicTitle: connectTopic.title || '',
-                      post: messageJSON.postContent,
+                      post: helperService.markdownToHTML(messageJSON.postContent),
                       date: (new Date()).toISOString(),
                       projectName: notification.contents.projectName,
                       projectId: messageJSON.projectId,

src/services/helper.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 const request = require('superagent');
 const config = require('config');
 const _ = require('lodash');
-
+const Remarkable = require('remarkable')
 
 /**
  * Get users details by ids
@@ -63,7 +63,29 @@ const getTopic = (topicId, logger) => request
   });
 
 
+
+/**
+ * Convert markdown into raw draftjs state
+ *
+ * @param {String} markdown - markdown to convert into raw draftjs object
+ * @param {Object} options - optional additional data
+ *
+ * @return {Object} ContentState
+**/
+const markdownToHTML = (markdown) => {
+  const md = new Remarkable('full', {
+    html: true,
+    linkify: true,
+    // typographer: true,
+  })
+  // Replace the BBCode [u][/u] to markdown '++' for underline style
+  const _markdown = markdown.replace(new RegExp('\\[/?u\\]', 'g'), '++')
+  return md.render(_markdown, {}) // remarkable js takes markdown and makes it an array of style objects for us to easily parse
+}
+
+
 module.exports = {
   getUsersById,
   getTopic,
+  markdownToHTML,
 };