Adding Temporary Files to the Markdown Preview Tool
Explore how to enhance the Markdown preview tool by creating temporary files in Go using ioutil.TempFile. Understand how this method avoids filename conflicts and clutter, and learn to update related test cases for dynamic file naming.
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In its current version, the mdp tool creates an HTML file with the same name as the Markdown file in the current directory. This isn’t ideal, as these files can accumulate in our system or could cause a clash if two or more users are previewing the same file simultaneously.
Change to the mdp tool
To address this issue, let’s make a change to the mdp tool to create and use
temporary files instead of local files. The ioutil package provides a ...