Eleventy Tricks
Forbid Nunjucks processing inside Markdown
/* .eleventy.js */
eleventyConfig.addPreprocessor("autoRaw", "md", (data, content) => {
// This regex looks for {{, }}, {%, or %} individually and wraps them
return content.replace(/({{|}}|{%|%})/g, "{% raw %}$1{% endraw %}");
});
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