What's new in Markdown preview in VS Code
Matt Bierner and Reynald Adolphe walk through recent improvements to the Markdown preview experience in Visual Studio Code, focused on reviewing documentation changes more effectively and catching broken links and references while editing.
Overview
The video is a roundup of Markdown preview improvements in VS Code aimed at making documentation editing and PR review faster.
New diff view rendered in the preview
- Demonstrates a new diff view that renders Markdown changes directly in the preview.
- Intended to make it easier to review how edits will look when rendered, not just as raw text diffs.
Link validation for references
- Shows link validation that catches broken references.
- Specifically calls out validation for:
- References to Markdown headers
- References to HTML IDs
Drag-and-drop support for images
- Demonstrates drag-and-drop support for adding images into Markdown.
- Focus is on speeding up common documentation workflows.
Diff editor associations
- Covers diff editor association behavior/settings so Markdown diffs can be viewed using the improved preview/diff experience.
Video chapters
- 00:00 New Markdown Features
- 00:15 Demo - Editing Markdown improvements
- 03:15 Demo - New Diff View
- 08:30 Demo - Diff Editor Associations
- 09:58 Demo - Embedding images
- 11:14 Recap