jira2md

JIRA to MarkDown text format converter

Convert from JIRA text formatting to GitHub Flavored MarkDown and back again. Also allows for both to be converted to HTML.

Credits

This module was heavily inspired by the J2M project by Fokke Zandbergen (http://j2m.fokkezb.nl/). Major credit to Fokke (and other contributors) for establishing a lot of the fundamental RexExp patterns for this module to work.

Installation

npm install jira2md

Supported Conversions

NOTE: All conversion work bi-directionally (from jira to markdown and back again).

Headers (H1-H6)
Bold
Italic
Bold + Italic
Un-ordered lists
Ordered lists
Programming Language-specific code blocks (with help from herbert-venancio)
Inline preformatted text spans
Un-named links
Named links
Monospaced Text
~~Citations~~ (Removed in 2.0.0)
Strikethroughs
Inserts
Superscripts
Subscripts
Single-paragraph blockquotes
Tables (thanks to erykwarren)
Panels (thanks to erykwarren)

How to Use

Markdown String

We'll refer to this as the md variable in the examples below.

**Some bold things**
*Some italic stuff*
## H2
<http://google.com>

Atlassian Wiki Syntax

We'll refer to this as the jira variable in the examples below.

*Some bold things**
_Some italic stuff_
h2. H2
[http://google.com]

Examples

// Include the module
var j2m = require('jira2md');

// If converting from Mardown to Jira Wiki Syntax:
var jira = j2m.to_jira(md);

// If converting from Jira Wiki Syntax to Markdown:
var md = j2m.to_markdown(jira);

// If converting from Markdown to HTML:
var html = j2m.md_to_html(md);

// If converting from JIRA Wiki Syntax to HTML:
var html = j2m.jira_to_html(jira);

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