This morning I came into work to find my Packagist download counter had rolled over: league/commonmark now has over 1,000,000 downloads!
To celebrate this milestone I thought I'd share the story of how this package came about, how it's grown, and how I couldn't have reached this milestone without the PHP community's help.
So this is really cool: Emmanuel Macron (the next president of France) is using my open-source CommonMark library on his website!
The full list of PHP League libraries used on the website:
Markdown is one of the most popular markup languages on the Web. Unfortunately, with no standard specification, every implementation works differently, producing varying results across different platforms. The CommonMark specification fixes this by providing an unambiguous syntax specification and a comprehensive suite of tests. Attendees will learn about this standard and how to integrate the league/commonmark parser into their applications. We will also cover how to add new syntax and other features to the parser to fit your custom needs.
Markdown is one of the most popular markup languages on the Web. Unfortunately, with no standard specification, every implementation works differently, producing varying results across different platforms. The CommonMark specification fixes this by providing an unambiguous syntax specification and a comprehensive suite of tests. Attendees will learn about this standard and how to integrate the league/commonmark parser into their applications. We will also cover how to add new custom features.
league/commonmark is a well-written, super-configurable Markdown parser for PHP based on the CommonMark spec. In this lightning talk, we’ll introduce the CommonMark spec, discuss why it’s important, and demonstrate how the league/commonmark project can be used and extended for your own PHP projects.
This post demonstrates how Blackfire was used to identify slowness in the league/commonmark parser. These findings were then used to implement two simple optimizations resulting in a 53% performance boost!
Learn about the CommonMark initiative and how you can implement a CommonMark parser into your PHP projects.
Converts HTML to Markdown with PHP.
Open-source PHP Markdown parser compatible with the CommonMark spec.
