React Markdown Tree

Demo website (demo code on gh-pages branch)

React Markdown Tree renders markdown as customizable React components and never uses dangerouslySetInnerHTML.

• Renders markdown according to the CommonMark spec (powered by commonmark.js and commonmark-react-renderer).
• Create your own renderers as React components for custom styling or use react-markdown-tree-config-default for zero setup default styling with syntax highlighting.
• Easy to use provider/child pattern - set the config once in <MarkdownProvider> and use <Markdown> anywhere in your app with zero props.

$ yarn add react-markdown-tree
# OR
$ npm install --save react-markdown-tree

# to use with the default config:
$ yarn add react-markdown-tree-config-default
# OR
$ npm install --save react-markdown-tree-config-default

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { MarkdownProvider } from 'react-markdown-tree';
import markdownConfig from 'react-markdown-tree-config-default';
import App from './App';

ReactDOM.render(
  <MarkdownProvider config={markdownConfig}>
    <App />
  </MarkdownProvider>,
  document.getElementById('root'),
);

// App.js or any component that is a child of <MarkdownProvider>
import { Markdown } from 'react-markdown-tree';
...

render() {
  return (
    <Markdown>
      {this.state.stringInMarkdownFormat /* any string containing the markdown source to render */}
    </Markdown>
  );
}

You can also use the UMD build that's available from Unpkg:

<!-- Available at window.ReactMarkdownTree -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-markdown-tree/dist/react-markdown-tree.min.js"></script>

<!-- Available at window.ReactMarkdownTreeConfigDefault -->
<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-markdown-tree-config-default/dist/react-markdown-tree-config-default.min.js"></script>

API

<Markdown>

children: string

• String containing the markdown source to render
• Not required, but if not provided <Markdown> returns null and does not render

as: string | ReactComponent

• Not required, default is 'div'
• What the markdown container element is rendered as
• String as an html tag name, e.g. 'div' will render a <div> container, 'section' will render a <section> container, etc...
• By default the container is rendered as a <div>
• If you provide a ReactComponent instead of a string, the rendered markdown will be passed down as an array of children to that component

...rest

• All other props will be passed down to the markdown container element, e.g. className, style, etc...

For Example

• <Markdown as="section" className="some-markdown"># Some Heading</Markdown> will render on the page as <section class="some-markdown"><h1>Some Heading</h1><section/>

<MarkdownProvider>

config: object

• Not required, but if it is not provided unstyled html will be rendered
• Object with keys for renderers and containerProps
• Note that you can only set the config once when the <MarkdownProvider> is mounted, and you cannot change the config once it has been set.
• For a reference config with unstyled renderers see referenceMarkdownConfigWithUnstyledRenderers.js

const config = {
  renderers: {
    Heading: /* ReactComponent */,
    Paragraph: /* ReactComponent */,
    Link: /* ReactComponent */,
    Image: /* ReactComponent */,
    List: /* ReactComponent */,
    Item: /* ReactComponent */,
    BlockQuote: /* ReactComponent */,
    Emph: /* ReactComponent */,
    Strong: /* ReactComponent */,
    Softbreak: /* ReactComponent */,
    Linebreak: /* ReactComponent */,
    ThematicBreak: /* ReactComponent */,
    Code: /* ReactComponent */,
    CodeBlock: /* ReactComponent */,
  },
  containerProps: {
    // default props passed down to every instance of <Markdown>
    // see <Markdown> API for prop definitions
  },
};