Function stripMarkdown

libs/common/src/utils/string.utils.ts:25–38

(str: string)

 * Removes markdown and html from a string
 */
export function stripMarkdown(str: string): Promise<string> {
  // A @ is added at the beginning and then removed before returning, as a work around for an open issue:
  // https://github.com/remarkjs/strip-markdown/issues/19
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    remark()
      .use(strip)
      .process('@' + str, (err, file) => {
        if (err) {
          return reject(err)
        }
        resolve(file.toString().trim().substr(1))
      })
  })
}

export function stripMarkdownSync(str: string): string {
  // A @ is added at the beginning and then removed before returning, as a work around for an open issue: