GitHub Actions Markdown lint Setup

Christina Hastenrath
3 min readOct 30, 2019

This is a tutorial to show you how I set up GitHub Actions for Markdown linting with David Ansons’s Markdownlint library.

Co-authored by Matt Ball

What is a Markdown linter?

Markdown is the Markup language that our docs are written in. A Markdown linter is a library of rules that standardize how Markdown files are written and merged

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Christina Hastenrath

Molecular Biologist turned Software Engineer. I write about my code. Connect with me on Twitter @etTinchen