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Fix checkmarks to render correctly

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend, web-dev

Research direction

Start in the Ember app's markdown rendering path and reproduce the GitHub-flavored checklist example from the issue, comparing it with the API markdown output. Trace where the list becomes • [x]; done means checklist markers render correctly while remaining non-interactive, without changing the API markdown rendering step.

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Description

Skill: Ember.js Skill: HTML Skill: JavaScript

Problem

Right now a list of checkmarks in GitHub-flavored markdown, that normally render like this (on GitHub):

- [ ] Check item 1
- [ ] Check item 2

...instead render like • [x].

Although we don't want to make these into working check items on our end (yet, at least), we do want to render them correctly.

We can do this by doing string parsing in the Ember app itself, rather than in the markdown rendering step on the API.

Dominant language
JavaScript
Stars
120
Forks
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PR merge metrics
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