Backslash prepended to the input `[`

[remarkjs]

Backslash prepended to the input `[`

[ChristianMurphy]

The escaping is intentional.
Some more context on a recent question asking the same thing: https://github.com/orgs/syntax-tree/discussions/87

Repeating some of that here:

Taking a step back, remark is an AST ecosystem.
Meaning it will preserve the structure/presentation of the content, but will not retain the exact characters.
You can read more about this is some previous discussions on AST vs CST.
https://github.com/remarkjs/remark/search?q=cst&type=issues and https://github.com/orgs/remarkjs/discussions?discussions_q=cst

In this case the escaped output is fine, it doesn't matter if it is escaped, the final presentation will be the same.

Adding on some additional context, if you are looking for full plain text rather than stripped down markdown text.
Consider using https://github.com/syntax-tree/mdast-util-to-string rather than remark-stringify to generate plain text rather than markdown text.

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[srmagura]

Thanks @ChristianMurphy! mdast-util-to-string is doing exactly what I needed:

const tree = fromMarkdown(markdown);
return toString(tree);