Markdown Links Validator

• 1. Background Project
• 2. Project Objectives
• 3. Flowchart
• 4. Install

1. Background Project

This is a project developed within my studies at the Laboratory Bootcamp in Peru. This time we have code for Backend enviroment creating a module to validate links in .md Files.

2. Project Objectives

In this project is a command line tool as a library published in NPM.

• [ ] Executable in NodeJS.
• [ ] Executable in differents operating systems.

3. Flowchart

Pseudo code or flowchart with the algorithm that solve the validation:

4. Install

npm i mdlinks-verobc

Declaring program variable

const mdlinks = require('mdlinks-verobc')

Command Line Interface (CLI)

• Command line: md links <path-to-file> [options]

• Command: md links

• Path: a valid folder name or filename

• Options:

  • --validate
  • --stats
  • --validate --stats

CLI Example without options

md links <path-to-file> [options]

Example:

$ md links filename.md

./some/example.md http://linkone.com/2/3/  TextOne
./some/example.md https://linktwo/text.html  TextTwo
./some/example.md http://linkthree.com/ TextThree
./some/example.md http://linkfour.com/  TextFour

This command gives a list of the routes, links and texts of all links in all .md files.

Options

Option: --validate

This option validate all links.

Example:

$ md links foldername --validate

./some/example.md http://linkone.com/2/3/ ok 200  TextOne
./some/example.md https://linktwo/text.html ok 301 TextTwo
./some/example.md http://linkthree.com/ fail 404  TextThree
Broken: ./some/example.md http://linkfour.com/  TextFour

Option: --stats

This option gives the total list of links and how many are unique.

Example:

$ md links filename.md --stats

Total: 4
Unique: 4

Option: --validate --stats

This option gives the total list of links and how many are unique and broken.

Example:

$ md links foldername --validate --stats 
Total: 3
Unique: 3
Broken: 1