Introduction

Have you ever considered creating a website or post with custom CSS styling and even more features and keep the source as clean as traditional Markdown language? If you are, AbstractMark will be a good markup language for you! Indeed, you'll be able to create a well-designed website just by using AbstractMark itself!

AbstractMark is a lightweight markup language designed to inherit the traditional syntax and add supports for styling website and using a constant syntax (which means in most cases, there'd be only one syntax, ex: there's only one way to bold a text, **Bold text**).

FYI, AbstractMark is different from WYSIWYG editor. AbstractMark inherited from Markdown to use AbstractMark-formatted file which are .am and .abstractmark extended file.

Quick Start:

For now, which is the early development progress for JavaScript Implementation, you can both try it on our playground and AbstractMark CLI by installing AbstractMark globally on npm package manager which is documented here.

Overview

Overview of AbstractMark syntaxes that are not supported in traditional markdown language

• Class

  • Defining class and its styles which are CSS-based.

  ---define
  .className{
     //styles here
  }
  .otherClass{
     //Other styles here
  }
  

  • Using class on an element

  Element {.className}
  

  For example: # Heading {.className}

• Inline style
  
  element {key: value}, example: # Hello World {color:red}

• External stylesheet
  
  stylesheet: (stylesheet link)

• External JavaScript
  
  script: (external script link)

Links

GitHub: https://github.com/abstractmark
Documentation site (in progress): https://abstractmark.netlify.app/
Playground: https://abstractmark.netlify.app/playground
Cheatsheet: https://abstractmark.netlify.app/cheatsheet

Development Progress

For now, AbstractMark has been implemented on JavaScript language and released its beta version, besides, CLI has been built on top of JavaScript is available now. Of course, we'll implement it in other languages, but we need not only contributors but also maintainers! Please reach us if you are interested. Development progress will be also posted as a blog monthly on dev.to :) Stay tuned!

Please drop a star on GitHub or consider using it if you like to :)