Replacement for markdownlint?

[lonix1]

I use prettier and markdownlint, which is a fiddly combo as markdownlint does linting and formatting.

This repo's docs state that it does linting only, and so works well alongside prettier.

Can I replace markdownlint with this library?

I'm unsure as the docs imply it is used for linting code inside code fences - does it lint the entire md file too? Does it have feature parity with markdownlint?

[DMartens]

This plugin can be used in two ways.
You can use it as a processor so it lints the code inside code fences.
Or you can use it as a language to lint the markdown itself.
The plugin currently does not have the all the linting rules of markdownlint but an ESLint team member maintains a separate plugin which adds additional rules found in markdownlint.

[lonix1]

Thank you for the tip! That plugin looks interesting.

(Makes me wonder though, whether to keep using prettier for formatting and markdownlint for linting, or to drop the latter and use the @eslint/markdown and eslint-markdown combo - seems the complexity is roughly the same in both cases... I'll see which has more rules, maybe that's a good way to choose.)

[lonix1]

@DMartens After tinkering with this for a while, I think I misunderstood you.

I found I can lint md file's contents, OR, I can enable the "processor" and lint code fences. But I cannot lint both simultaneously. And one cannot use different config blocks or any other trickery, as they are merged - so it's either one or the other.

Am I understanding correctly?

If so, what do you recommend to do if one wants to lint the content AND code fences?

[DMartens]

Yes this a current limitation.
The current workaround for this is using two ESLint configurations (one for the content and one for the embedded code).
Then create a script in package.json or elsewhere which calls ESLint with both:

eslint --config eslint.config.js && eslint --config eslint-markdown.config.js