How to customise markdown anchor tags

#gatsby #javascript #markdown #frontend

Customising anchor tags in a markdown file can be daunting when adhering to markdown syntaxes.
For example [click-here](url) will generate a corresponding anchor tag <a href='url'>click-here </a>, this makes it difficult to add customisations such as.

Opening external links in a new tab, while local links retain default behaviour (opens on same tab)
Adding attributes to the anchor tags
Adding className links so as to do more customisation with CSS and JavaScript.

So, I have created an NPM package to solve this challenge. Check it out https://www.npmjs.com/package/customise-links