Introduction

Hey, congratulations on taking the first step on your Hashnode journey. Here I will be diving into, how to get your first blog up and running in a few minutes so let's get into it.

Let's do a bunch of stuff with text formatting first.

Text formatting

Bold and Italics

You can use bold, or you can choose to use italics, or you can even choose to use bold and italic together.

Writing the same line using the Hashnode command,

Links

You can use Links like this 😊

Or you can embed a link using

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Quotes

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” - Mae West

Using the ">" symbol before your text, you can add a quote to your blog.

Headers

Hashnode supports H1 to H6 headers.

#H1

##H2

###H3

####H4

#####H5

######H6

Add space between the "#" and Your text to make it operational.

Code snippet

Code snippet addition is an important feature of Hashnode in my opinion.

// This way I can add code

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Bullet points

You can add bullet points

• This
• Is
• Bullet
• List

1. This
2. Is
3. Numbered
4. List

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Series

Hashnode provides this amazing feature called series where you can create a new series and add blogs to their own sub-section of the topic. You can find it in settings.

Publish

With this you are good to go on the basics, just a combination of all the above mentioned items you will be able to do most of the things.

Table of contents

You can add a table of contents for your blog. When you hit on publishing you will see a checkbox for "Generate a table of content?"

SEO

You can add metadata for your blog when you hit on publish. Using this is a good practice.

Conclusion

Writing a blog on Hashnode on "Get started with Hashnode blog" is a very meta thing. I am writing this blog as I received multiple queries on how to get started. Hopefully, this helped.

Now, get started with creating amazing blogs. I would love to see you all in the Hashnode community.

All the best!