Simply, edit markdown documents in vscode and instantly preview it in your browser.
Note Version 1.0 is a complete rewrite and no longer works using instant-markdown-d.
This extension is build on markdown-it and uses the following extensions:
- markdown-it-mathjax
- markdown-it-named-headers
- markdown-it-plantuml
- markdown-it-sup
- markdown-it-task-lists
Press F1 and narrow down the list commands by typing extension
. Pick Extensions: Install Extension
.
Select the Instant Markdown
extension from the list
Mac & Linux
cd $HOME/.vscode/extensions
git clone https://github.com/dbankier/vscode-instant-markdown.git
cd vscode-instant-markdown
npm install
Windows
cd %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions
git clone https://github.com/dbankier/vscode-instant-markdown.git
cd vscode-instant-markdown
npm install
When you edit a markdown document it should instantly preview in your browser with changes applied as you type.
You browser should automatically open to http://localhost:8090
You can turn off the automatic opening of the browser. Just change the default configuration of instantmarkdown.autoOpenBrowser
from true
to false
.
You can then use > Instant Markdown: Open Browser
to open the broswer or create a shortcut for the following command instantmarkdown.openBrowser
.
You can turn off the automatic closing of the browser. Just change the default configuration of instantmarkdown.autoCloseServerAndBrowser
from true
to false
.
You can also change the host
and port
that the server runs on by changing their respective default settings.
Finally you can increase the debounce
value from 0
milliseconds to make the plugin less instant.