Learn how to render Markdown in your Elixir and Phoenix applications using MDEx.

In this tutorial, we'll build a blog application where posts are written in Markdown and beautifully rendered with syntax highlighting, headers, and proper typography.

🔗 Resources
- MDEx website: https://mdelixir.dev/
- MDEx documentation: https://hexdocs.pm/mdex
- Tailwind Typography: https://tailwindcss.com/docs/typography-plugin
- MDEx Usage Rules: https://github.com/leandrocp/mdex/blob/main/usage-rules.md

What You'll Learn
- Using `to_html` function for dynamic content from database
- Leveraging the compile-time MDEx sigil (~MD) for better performance
- Working with assigns and dynamic values in Markdown
- Integrating Markdown rendering in Phoenix LiveView
- Adding Tailwind Typography plugin for beautiful formatting
- Using HEEx sigil to mix Markdown with Phoenix components

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A walkthrough of integrating MDEx into a Phoenix blog application to render Markdown as HTML. Covers adding MDEx as a dependency, using the `to_html` function for dynamic content, the compile-time `~MD` sigil for static content, handling errors gracefully, and using the HEEx sigil variant to embed Phoenix components and assigns inside Markdown. Also shows enabling Tailwind's typography plugin for proper heading and prose formatting, plus syntax highlighting out of the box.

Render Markdown in Elixir - MDEx