diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
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+scripts/build
+scripts/nodesjs/build
+node_modules
+_site
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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+++ b/.travis.yml
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+# This is the configuration for Travis CI, a free github-integrated service that runs this script for each pull request (if configured)
+
+# Be nice to travis, allow docker builds, must not use sudo below
+sudo: false
+
+# provides gcc, clang, make, scons, cmake
+language: c++
+
+# alternatives: gcc, clang, or both (as yaml list)
+compiler: clang
+
+install:
+ -
+
+script:
+ - cd scripts; make -k
+ - cd ..
+
+## find lines with tabs
+# - rm -f CppCoreGuidelines.md.tabs
+# - cat CppCoreGuidelines.md | nl -ba | sed -s 's/\(^[^\t]*\)\t/\1--/g' | grep  $'\t'  | sed -s 's/\t/\*\*\*\*/g' > CppCoreGuidelines.md.tabs
+# - if [[ -s CppCoreGuidelines.md.tabs ]]; then echo 'Tabs found'; cat CppCoreGuidelines.md.tabs; false; fi;
+
+## check references unique
+ - rm -f CppCoreGuidelines.md.uniq
+ - grep -oP '(?<=<a name=")[^\"]+' CppCoreGuidelines.md | uniq -d > CppCoreGuidelines.md.uniq
+ - if [[ -s CppCoreGuidelines.md.uniq ]]; then echo 'Found duplicate anchors:'; cat CppCoreGuidelines.md.uniq; false; fi;
+
+
+notifications:
+  email: false
diff --git a/scripts/Makefile b/scripts/Makefile
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+++ b/scripts/Makefile
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+# This Makefile is supposed to run on the Travis CI server and also locally
+# it assumes the nodejs package managaer npm is installed
+
+# make magic not needed
+MAKEFLAGS += --no-builtin-rules
+.SUFFIXES:
+
+BUILD_DIR=build
+SOURCEFILE = CppCoreGuidelines.md
+SOURCEPATH = ../$(SOURCEFILE)
+
+.PHONY: default
+default: all
+
+.PHONY: all
+all: \
+check-markdown \
+check-references
+
+
+$(BUILD_DIR):
+	mkdir -p $(BUILD_DIR)
+
+#### clean: remove all files generated by the productive rules
+.PHONY: clean
+clean:
+	rm -rf $(BUILD_DIR)
+
+#### distclean: remove all helper executables that may be downloaded by the Makefile
+.PHONY: distclean
+distclean:
+	rm -rf ./nodejs/node_modules
+
+
+#### check markdown
+
+## run remark markdown checker based on configuration in .remarkrc
+.PHONY: check-markdown
+check-markdown: nodejs/node_modules/remark nodejs/remark/.remarkrc $(SOURCEPATH) $(BUILD_DIR) Makefile
+## run remark, paste output to temporary file
+	cd nodejs; ./node_modules/.bin/remark ../$(SOURCEPATH) --no-color -q --config-path ./remark/.remarkrc 1> ../$(BUILD_DIR)/$(SOURCEFILE).fixed --frail
+
+## show a diff with changes remark suggests
+.PHONY: show-diff
+show-diff: nodejs/node_modules/remark nodejs/remark/.remarkrc $(SOURCEPATH) $(BUILD_DIR) Makefile
+	cd nodejs; ./node_modules/.bin/remark ../$(SOURCEPATH) --no-color -q --config-path ./remark/.remarkrc 1> ../$(BUILD_DIR)/$(SOURCEFILE).fixed
+## compare temporary file to original, error and fail with message if differences exist
+	diff $(SOURCEPATH) $(BUILD_DIR)/$(SOURCEFILE).fixed -u3 || \
+	(echo "Error: remark found bad markdown syntax, see output above" && false)
+
+
+.PHONY: check-references
+check-references: $(SOURCEPATH) $(BUILD_DIR) Makefile
+## check references unique
+	rm $(BUILD_DIR)/$(SOURCEFILE).uniq
+	grep -oP '(?<=<a name=")[^\"]+' $(SOURCEPATH) | uniq -d > $(BUILD_DIR)/$(SOURCEFILE).uniq
+## check if output has data
+	if [ -s "build/CppCoreGuidelines.md.uniq" ]; then echo 'Found duplicate anchors:'; cat $(BUILD_DIR)/$(SOURCEFILE).uniq; false; fi
+
+
+#### install npm modules
+# install/update npm dependencies defined in file package.json
+# requires npm (nodejs package manager)
+nodejs/node_modules/%: nodejs/package.json
+	@cd nodejs; npm install
diff --git a/scripts/nodejs/package.json b/scripts/nodejs/package.json
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index 0000000..2b728e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/nodejs/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{
+  "name": "CppCoreGuidelinesCheck",
+  "version": "0.0.0",
+  "description": "CppCoreGuidelines Check",
+  "private": true,
+  "dependencies": {
+    "remark": "^4.2.0",
+    "remark-lint": "^3.2.0",
+    "remark-lint-sentence-newline": "^2.0.0",
+    "remark-validate-links": "^3.0.0"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/scripts/nodejs/remark/.remarkrc b/scripts/nodejs/remark/.remarkrc
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+++ b/scripts/nodejs/remark/.remarkrc
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+{
+"plugins": {
+    "remark-lint": {
+        "unordered-list-marker-style": "consistent",
+        "list-item-bullet-indent": false,
+        "list-item-indent": false,
+        "list-item-spacing": false,
+        "no-html": false,
+        "maximum-line-length": false,
+        "no-file-name-mixed-case": false,
+        "heading-increment": false,
+        "no-multiple-toplevel-headings": false,
+        "no-consecutive-blank-lines": false,
+        "maximum-line-length": 9000,
+        "maximum-heading-length": 300,
+        "no-heading-punctuation": false,
+        "no-duplicate-headings": false,
+        "emphasis-marker": "*",
+        "no-tabs": false,
+        "blockquote-indentation": false,
+        "strong-marker": "*"
+    }
+  },
+  "settings": {
+    "bullet": "*",
+    "listItemIndent": "1",
+    "strong": "*",
+    "emphasis": "*"
+  }
+
+}