Lesson 4: Markdown Display #

In this lesson you are going to take a slight detour in markdown.

• How to create an internal api that hides an implementation, in this case the API will have the ability to take blobs of text and interpret them as Markdown and display them on screen.
• Use goldmark to do the processing and then use the long lived connection to display the resulting HTML.
• Use a golang chan for communicating to the long lived conn so it can block on select.

Lesson summary #

At the end of this lesson you should be able to explain:

• How the long lived connection can be used by any goroutine to communicate with the currently connected client.

For the truly gung-ho (advanced exercises; we don’t provide the answers) #

• Answer the quetion of what would happen if you run two browsers that are connected to our example mirabeau server?