Comment by Shailesh Kumar on "Start Using GitHub to Publish Articles on Hashnode"

Hi Girish,

I just published my first article on Hashnode with GitHub integration and it is quite helpful. I am proficient with Markdown and RestructuredText but have always struggled with sites like medium for tech writing.

There were a couple of issues I could not figure out while publishing through GitHub.

How to add images?

It is not clear if the cover photo URL has to come from a public source. I ended up making my hashnode-articles repository public and then using the full URL of the image I placed in the repository in the cover metadata field. Is it not possible to use a relative path within the GITHUB repo for cover image?
How to add images within the Markdown article? My attempt was to use the standard Markdown syntax
```
![caption](./image-path.png)
```
This was displaying fine in the Markdown preview on GitHub but didn't work in the published article. Do I need to provide full URL for every image that I wish to include in the article?

Thanks for trying it out, and I hope it helps. The image needs to be uploaded to hashnode.com/uploader and use that URL in the markdown or even for post cover image (this is mentioned in the instructions and also in the template repository github.com/Hashnode/Hashnode-source-from-github-t…) I think it needs to be highlighted more, thanks for pointing it out.

Girish Patil Thanks. Yes, this serves my purpose. Yes, I somehow missed it while reading the README from the template repo.

Hi Girish Patil I tried it but my images dont display as well..

I tried using the hashnode.com/uploader but still doesn't work.

Here is the Github file: github.com/Bennykillua/Hashnode/blob/main/first-p…

Here is the post: benny.hashnode.dev/share-your-cookies

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