reactify-markdown
v0.2.4
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Markdown-It plugin that overwrites the renderer to produce React nodes rather than HTML text
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Reactify Markdown
A MarkdownIt plugin and corresponding React component that makes the renderer produce React Nodes instead of a string.
Every React/Markdown package I've found has rendered the source as text and then wrapped it in
<div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html: source}} />
. This prevents you from creating rules and plugins that return
controlled React components. It also produces a <div>
, a block-level element, which can have undesired effects on layout.
Using custom rules that set token.content
to a ReactNode
allows you to render React components inline. As the env
parameter of render()
can pass arbitrary information, you can take advantage of this and pass component props and
state into the markdown rendering itself.
Installation
npm install --save reactify-markdown react markdown-it
React and markdown-it are required peer dependencies.
Usage
Using just the plugin
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it';
import { RenderReactPlugin } from 'reactify-markdown';
const md = MarkdownIt();
md.use(RenderReactPlugin);
function MyComponent({ myMarkdownString }) {
return (<div>
Here's my markdown!
{md.render(myMarkdownString)}
</div>);
}
ReactDOM.render(
<MyComponent myMarkdownString="# Hello #" />,
document.getElementById('root')
);
Produces:
<div>
Here's my markdown!
<h1>Hello</h1>
</div>
With a custom rule
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it';
import mdiRegex from 'markdown-it-regex';
import { RenderReactPlugin } from 'reactify-markdown';
const md = MarkdownIt();
md.use(RenderReactPlugin);
md.use(mdiRegex, {
name: 'myRule',
regex: /:(\w+):/,
replace: m => <i>{m}</i>
});
function MyComponent({ myMarkdownString }) {
return md.render(myMarkdownString);
}
ReactDOM.render(
<MyComponent myMarkdownString="Hay :needle: stack" />,
document.getElementById('root')
);
Produces:
<p>
Hay <i>needle</i> stack
</p>
Using the React Component
The same outputs as above can be produced using:
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import ReactifyMarkdown from 'reactify-markdown';
ReactDOM.render(
<div>
Here's my markdown!
<ReactifyMarkdown>
# Hello #
</ReactifyMarkdown>
</div>,
document.getElementById('root')
);
With a custom rule
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import mdiRegex from 'markdown-it-regex';
import ReactifyMarkdown from 'reactify-markdown';
const myRule = [
mdiRegex,
{
name: 'myRule',
regex: /:(\w+):/,
replace: m => <i>{m}</i>
}
];
ReactDOM.render(
<ReactifyMarkdown plugins={[myRule]}>Hay :needle: stack</ReactifyMarkdown>,
document.getElementById('root')
);
<ReactifyMarkdown>
props
children
:string
- The markdown source string to be parsed and rendered.enable?
:string | string[]
- Optional rule name or list of rule names to enable.disable?
:string | string[]
- Optional rule name or list of rule names to disable.env?
:any
- Arbitrary data that is passed into the renderer's rules.dontStripIndent?
:boolean
(defaultfalse
) - By default, the component will strip preceding spaces viastrip-indent
. Set this flag to disable this behavior.md?
:MarkdownIt
- A preconfigured markdown it instance. Ifmd
is set, all of the following values are ignored.options?
:MarkdownIt.Options
- See https://markdown-it.github.io/markdown-it/#MarkdownIt.new.plugins?
:Plugin[]
- A list of plugins to apply to the markdown instance. Each element is passed directly as arguments tomd.use()
. See https://markdown-it.github.io/markdown-it/#MarkdownIt.use.presetName?
:'commonmark' | 'zero' | 'default'
(default'default'
) - See https://markdown-it.github.io/markdown-it/#MarkdownIt.new.
TODO
- [ ] Better documentation.
- [ ] Allow mixed strings/elements children in the
<ReactifyMarkdown>
component. - [ ] Better test coverage.