fix(blog): Strip Markdown syntax in blog post previews #79
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Make sure there's enough text to fill the line's length, accounting for the removal of Markdown syntax.
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Overview
Our blog posts use Markdown syntax for formatting. An excerpt of the post's content is extracted to create the post preview cards, as seen below:
However, Markdown syntax is not applied in the preview, so the text is displayed unformatted.
This commit introduces
remove-markdownas a dependency and calls its function on the blog post's excerpt prior to rendering, stripping any Markdown syntax and rendering the contents as plain text.It also increases the excerpt's length from 200 to 250 characters to account for the shrinkage arising from the Markdown syntax removal.