Regex to replace markdown links with their rendered HTML counterpart

convertMarkdownToAnchor.js

// convert a string of markdown that has anchor tags into it to have the rendered anchor tags

const html = `your markdown goes here`
const r = /\[(.*)\]\((.*)\)/gmi

function linkReplacer(match, p1, p2) {
  return `<a href="${p2}" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer">${p1}</a>`
}

const newHtml = html.replace(r, linkReplacer)

console.log(newHtml)