I have my documentation written in markdown and I would like to render those files from my JSX (ES6+CommonJS) code into React components. How can I achieve this?
For example I have styles.markdown and I would like to render it into a <p>
tag.
I have my documentation written in markdown and I would like to render those files from my JSX (ES6+CommonJS) code into React components. How can I achieve this?
For example I have styles.markdown and I would like to render it into a <p>
tag.
Just create a simple React component that wraps a call to a Markdown parser. There are two very good ones for JavaScript:
Now you can create a component like this:
var MarkdownViewer = React.createClass({
render: function() {
// pseudo code here, depends on the parser
var markdown = markdown.parse(this.props.markdown);
return <div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html:markdown}} />;
}
});
There used to have one already, but it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore: https://github.com/tcoopman/markdown-react
Also, if you need a React Markdown Editor, check out: react-mde. Disclaimer: I am the author.
The package react-markdown
with Markdown
component will be good choice:
import React from 'react'
import Markdown from 'react-markdown'
var src = "# Load the markdown document"
React.render(
<Markdown source={src} />,
document.getElementById('root')
);
Example of Markdown component that renders html from markdown text, the logic of loading data should be implemented in separate store/parent component/whatever. I am using marked package for converting markdown to html.
import React from 'react';
import marked from 'marked';
export default class MarkdownElement extends React.Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
marked.setOptions({
gfm: true,
tables: true,
breaks: false,
pedantic: false,
sanitize: true,
smartLists: true,
smartypants: false
});
}
render() {
const { text } = this.props,
html = marked(text || '');
return (<div>
<div dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{__html: html}} />
</div>);
}
}
MarkdownElement.propTypes = {
text: React.PropTypes.string.isRequired
};
MarkdownElement.defaultProps = {
text: ''
};
Try something like this:
import fs from 'fs';
import React, { Component, PropTypes } from 'react';
class Markdown extends Component {
constructor() {
super(props);
this.state = { contents: '' };
this.componentDidMount = this.componentDidMount.bind(this);
}
componentDidMount() {
const contents = fs.readFileSync(this.props.path, 'utf8');
this.setState({ contents });
}
render()
return (
<div>
{this.state.contents.split('\n').map((line, i) =>
line ? <p key={i}>{line}</p> : <br key={i} />)}
</div>
);
}
}
Markdown.propTypes = { path: PropTypes.string.isRequired };
React.render(<Markdown path='./README.md' />, document.body);
Or if you're using ES7+ features:
import fs from 'fs';
import React, { Component, PropTypes } from 'react';
class Markdown extends Component {
static propTypes = { path: PropTypes.string.isRequired };
state = { contents: '' };
componentDidMount = () => {
const contents = fs.readFileSync(this.props.path, 'utf8');
this.setState({ contents });
};
render() {
return (
<div>
{this.state.contents.split('\n').map((line, i) =>
line ? <p key={i}>{line}</p> : <br key={i} />)}
</div>
);
}
}
React.render(<Markdown path='./README.md' />, document.body);
You'll need to use the brfs transform to be able to use fs.readFileSync if this is running client-side.
I'm a little late to the party, but I wrote a competitor library to the ones mentioned above that has an added benefit of not needing the dangerouslySetInnerHtml
hack: https://github.com/probablyup/markdown-to-jsx