Similar functionality to BBCode for Elixir/Phoenix

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I’m working on a forum system using Elixir and Phoenix, so I was wondering if there’s anything with a similar functionality to BBCode for Phoenix, so users can format their text, and it shows as formatted text when loaded from the DB. Or would I have to manually create a parser for that?

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You can use any of the light markup languages (LML) out there, for example Markdown (CommonMark) which is used on this forum.

Libraries for you:

  • Eamark - pure Elixir Markdown parser
  • Cmark - NIF for CommonMark implementation in C
  • Pandex - thin wrapper over Pandoc executable that can convert from almost anything to almost anything

That is what is available for now. You can write your own though.

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Sweet, i’ll check them out, thanks a lot!

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Also check out Announcing Firestorm - Forum built with Phoenix perhaps you could join forces or help out there? :003:

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