Summary
A portable Markdown library written in Dart, capable of parsing Markdown to HTML on both client and server. Spent several months of my free time refactoring the codebase as an open source contributor. Recognized with the 2023 Google Open Source Peer Bonus.
Judgment
Defined base syntax parsers and refactored the full parser on top of them in layers, making the codebase easier to maintain and extend. Two deliberate tradeoffs:
- Kept the original public API intact despite it not being optimal, to avoid breaking a widely-used package
- Accepted a minor performance drop as the cost of achieving 100% CommonMark and GFM compliance.
