# Async Markdown-It plugin
**URL:** https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/async-markdown-it-plugin/41155
**Category:** Plugins
**Created:** [1 October 2024 17:28 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/async-markdown-it-plugin/41155 "2024-10-01T17:28:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@DanteCoder](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/DanteCoder)
#### Post date: [1 October 2024 17:28 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/async-markdown-it-plugin/41155/1 "2024-10-01T17:28:33Z")
Hello everyone. It's been some time since I created the "[Bible Quote](https://github.com/DanteCoder/JoplinBibleQuote)" plugin. Recently I saw that support for mobile plugins is becoming a thing, and someone suggested that I make my plugin mobile-compatible.
The thing is, currently my plugin works by accessing the file system to open some files, which I see [is not supported on mobile](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/mobile-plugin-support/35262#plugins-known-not-to-work-8). My approach was to load the files from a note instead, using the Data API. This seemed to work fine, the problem now is that loading the files and then sending the parsed objects to the markdown-it plugin (using the localstorage plus a [hack](https://github.com/DanteCoder/JoplinBibleQuote/blob/0e4dc59b963c895f88009746cb5699b66637d6ff/src/utils/communicator.ts)) is an async operation that ends after the markdown has already finished rendering. This is "fixed" by refreshing the note: changing from one note to another, modifying the note, etc.
I have tried the following solutions:
I tried the approach of an async rule as suggested in the [official md docs](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/blob/master/docs/development.md#i-need-async-rule-how-to-do-it), but since Joplin triggers the `render` function internally, I figured it would be impossible to do this just from the plugin itself. Also, I don't think that replacing the render function from the MarkdownIt instance to be async would be appropriate.
This approach would solve the problem of sending the files over to the markdown-it plugin, and instead just load them from the main plugin and send small messages from the markdown plugin to the main plugin when a query to a file is needed.
My second approach was to reload the note after the files were sent (spoiler: I couldn't trigger a reload manually).
I'm open to any suggestions.
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### Author:  [@personalizedrefriger](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/personalizedrefriger)
#### Post date: [1 October 2024 19:02 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/async-markdown-it-plugin/41155/2 "2024-10-01T19:02:40Z")
One option could be to add the rendering script as an asset, then render quotes after the main note is rendered.
This is similar to what the [Function Plot](https://github.com/hieuthi/joplin-plugin-function-plot/blob/d718aaa8cad3245d9067489d44296e1d75201a7a/src/functionPlotRule.js#L25) and [Extra Viewer Settings](https://github.com/personalizedrefrigerator/joplin-plugin-extra-viewer-settings/blob/5a0cea56a7b6fbadbda93eb01ed72f77cff4ee9f/src/contentScript/contentScript.ts#L10) plugins do. It's then possible to communicate with the main background script using `webviewApi.postMessage(contentScriptId, data)` ([example](https://github.com/personalizedrefrigerator/joplin-plugin-extra-viewer-settings/blob/5a0cea56a7b6fbadbda93eb01ed72f77cff4ee9f/src/contentScript/viewer.ts#L15), [docs](https://joplinapp.org/api/references/plugin_api/enums/contentscripttype.html#getting-the-settings-from-the-renderer)).
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### Author:  [@DanteCoder](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/DanteCoder)
#### Post date: [1 October 2024 21:10 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/async-markdown-it-plugin/41155/3 "2024-10-01T21:10:29Z")
Yep, that's exactly what I need, it just wasn't clear enough to me how to do it. I'll give it a try.
Thanks a lot!
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### Author:  [@Stargirl0](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Stargirl0)
#### Post date: [6 October 2024 21:55 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/async-markdown-it-plugin/41155/4 "2024-10-06T21:55:17Z")
Hi, do you have the King James Bible within your created "Bible Quote"?
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### Author:  [@DanteCoder](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/DanteCoder)
#### Post date: [7 October 2024 02:09 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/async-markdown-it-plugin/41155/5 "2024-10-07T02:09:38Z")
Take a look at this [repo](https://github.com/bzerangue/osis-bibles/blob/master/en/kjv.xml)
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### Author:  [@Stargirl0](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Stargirl0)
#### Post date: [7 October 2024 09:04 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/async-markdown-it-plugin/41155/6 "2024-10-07T09:04:03Z")
Thank you, but I was able to download the software yesterday evening and save the kjv version to OS something and added the path but I#m not sure what I need to do afterwards? Sorry, I learn as i need something.
I have Bible Quote and Joplin Bible Notes but all i'm getting is all my notes under Bible headings?
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### Author:  [@Stargirl0](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Stargirl0)
#### Post date: [7 October 2024 09:06 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/async-markdown-it-plugin/41155/7 "2024-10-07T09:06:26Z")
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### Author:  [@Stargirl0](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Stargirl0)
#### Post date: [7 October 2024 16:55 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/async-markdown-it-plugin/41155/8 "2024-10-07T16:55:48Z")
Sorry, Thank you, I worked it out. It's Brilliant!!