Copy Table in Excel and Paste as a Markdown Table

Copy a table from Excel or Google Sheets and paste it into the text box below to create a Markdown table. This online tool is made possible by Jonathan Hoyt’s innovative copy-excel-paste-markdown code. I’ve also modified his code to create a version that supports column alignments as explained below. Here are the steps: In Excel or Google Sheets, select a range of cells and press Ctrl+C to copy. Paste (Ctrl+V) into the text box below to create a Markdown table.

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Creating Node.js Microservices with Ease Using Stdlib

Microservices and serverless architectures are all the rage in the software industry. After working with Polybit’s amazing stdlib platform, I am clearly seeing the value of this promising technology! Today, I will introduce you to stdlib. I encourage you to work alongside me as we leverage stdlib to build a microservice that we can consume in a variety of contexts. Let’s get started with this fabulous technology!

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Build an Amazing Markdown Editor Using Visual Studio Code and Pandoc

Today we’re going to build an amazing Markdown editor using Visual Studio Code and Pandoc. This system will include real-time Markdown linting and the ability to generate html, docx, and pdf documents quickly with the potential to produce many other document formats as well. Markdown is a simple markup language that allows one to write documents using a text editor and transform those documents into many different formats.  Among other things, it works beautifully for documenting source code since the Markdown documents can be checked in and versioned with Git or your source control system of choice.

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