# MarkDown Previewer: Is it too similar?

**URL:** <https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/markdown-previewer-is-it-too-similar/230986>\
**Category:** I Built This\
**Created:** [September 30, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/markdown-previewer-is-it-too-similar/230986 "2018-09-30T14:36:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![mjennings78717](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@mjennings78717](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/mjennings78717)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/markdown-previewer-is-it-too-similar/230986/1 "2018-09-30T14:36:11Z")

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Is

> **[FCC: Simple React Markdown Previewer](https://codepen.io/mjennings78717/pen/EdaeZo)**
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too much of a subset of

> **[FCC: Simple React Markdown Previewer](https://codepen.io/freeCodeCamp/full/GrZVVO)**
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?

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**Author:** ![moT01](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/mot01/32/417588_2.png) [@moT01](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/moT01)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/markdown-previewer-is-it-too-similar/230986/2 "2018-09-30T14:55:19Z")

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Visually, I would say no - most of the markdown projects (and some others) end up looking very similar to the example cause that’s what everyone is looking at to build their projects - Looking at some of the code, there’s some small things that look possibly copy/pasted, not enough that I would be concerned - but I would try to avoid that in the future. If it were me, I would turn it in and move on to the next one, I think you’re fine.

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**Author:** ![mjennings78717](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f8ce5/32.png) [@mjennings78717](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/mjennings78717)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2018, 4:41pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/markdown-previewer-is-it-too-similar/230986/3 "2018-09-30T16:41:11Z")

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Thanks. I’ll let this post linger for a few days to see if any admins say they’ll flag my account for academic dishonesty if I turn it in.

I’ll try to extract the editor element in another fork. User story #4 is too dependent on the Marked library to not use it. Off the top of my head, not using it would entail a massive switch of regular expressions and a full understanding of “GitHub flavored markdown”. I was taught years ago to not reinvent the wheel when coding.

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**Author:** ![ILM](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/freecodecamp/user_avatar/forum.freecodecamp.org/ilm/32/363239_2.png) [@ILM](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/u/ILM)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.freecodecamp.org/t/markdown-previewer-is-it-too-similar/230986/4 "2021-01-17T19:50:50Z")

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Closed on January 17, 2021, 7:50pm UTC