Skip to content

GitHub Flavored Markdown vs RawGit

A side-by-side look at GitHub Flavored Markdown and RawGit. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

GitHub Flavored Markdown

GitHub Flavored Markdown

Development

GitHub Flavored Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to format text on GitHub. It builds upon standard Markdown by adding some additional elements like tables, syntax highlighting, emoji support, and more.

markdownformattinggithub
RawGit

RawGit

Development

RawGit is a free web service that serves raw files directly from GitHub with proper Content-Type headers. It acts as a CDN for GitHub, allowing developers to easily link to JavaScript, CSS, and images from any GitHub repo.

githubcdnraw-fileslinking