Markdown not transformed in rss feed plugins

Description

Using any of the available rss plugins [1][2] I am not able to include Markdown content such that it is converted to html. But the respective node.content entries on my BlogPost types are in html format when I query them in the playground.

Could it be that this is because the plugins use the hook beforeBuild and afterBuild when the build has already been finished / not yet started and the transformer is not yet/anymore available here?

[1] https://github.com/onecrayon/gridsome-plugin-feed [2] https://github.com/darthmeme/gridsome-plugin-rss

[RehanSaeed]

Is there a way to get the full HTML with all remark plugins I’ve configured in Gridsome?

[hjvedvik]

I’ve been thinking about this… It might be difficult for those plugins to get transformed node fields unless they change their options. They would either generate GraphQL queries or let developers write them manually. For now, I would recommend using the marked package to transform the markdown like this:

const marked = require('marked')
...
nodeToFeedItem: node => ({
  title: node.title,
  date: node.fields.date,
  content: marked(node.content)
})

It won’t include all the Remark plugins etc, but you will at least have HTML instead of markdown 😃