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@tithon/react-markdown

Regenine2MIT0.0.1TypeScript support: included

Renders Markdown as React components

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react-markdown

Renders Markdown as pure React components.

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Demo available at https://rexxars.github.io/react-markdown/


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Installing

npm install --save react-markdown

Basic usage

const React = require('react')
const ReactDOM = require('react-dom')
const ReactMarkdown = require('react-markdown')

const input = '# This is a header\n\nAnd this is a paragraph'

ReactDOM.render(<ReactMarkdown source={input} />, document.getElementById('container'))

Upgrading to 4.0

Should be straightforward. You might need to alter you code slightly if you:

  • Are using allowedTypes (add text to the list)
  • Rely on there being a container <div> without a class name around your rendered markdown
  • Have implemented a custom text renderer

See CHANGELOG for more details.

Notes

If you don't need to render HTML, this component does not use dangerouslySetInnerHTML at all - this is a Good Thing™.

Options

  • source or children - string The Markdown source to parse (required)
  • className - string Class name of the container element. If none is passed, a container will not be rendered.
  • escapeHtml - boolean Setting to false will cause HTML to be rendered (see notes below about proper HTML support). Be aware that setting this to false might cause security issues if the input is user-generated. Use at your own risk. (default: true).
  • skipHtml - boolean Setting to true will skip inlined and blocks of HTML (default: false).
  • sourcePos - boolean Setting to true will add data-sourcepos attributes to all elements, indicating where in the markdown source they were rendered from (default: false).
  • rawSourcePos - boolean Setting to true will pass a sourcePosition property to all renderers with structured source position information (default: false).
  • includeNodeIndex - boolean Setting to true will pass index and parentChildCount props to all renderers (default: false).
  • allowedTypes - array Defines which types of nodes should be allowed (rendered). (default: all types).
  • disallowedTypes - array Defines which types of nodes should be disallowed (not rendered). (default: none).
  • unwrapDisallowed - boolean Setting to true will try to extract/unwrap the children of disallowed nodes. For instance, if disallowing Strong, the default behaviour is to simply skip the text within the strong altogether, while the behaviour some might want is to simply have the text returned without the strong wrapping it. (default: false)
  • allowNode - function Function execute if in order to determine if the node should be allowed. Ran prior to checking allowedTypes/disallowedTypes. Returning a truthy value will allow the node to be included. Note that if this function returns true and the type is not in allowedTypes (or specified as a disallowedType), it won't be included. The function will receive three arguments argument (node, index, parent), where node contains different properties depending on the node type.
  • linkTarget - function|string Sets the default target attribute for links. If a function is provided, it will be called with url, text, and title and should return a string (e.g. _blank for a new tab). Default is undefined (no target attribute).
  • transformLinkUri - function|null Function that gets called for each encountered link with a single argument - uri. The returned value is used in place of the original. The default link URI transformer acts as an XSS-filter, neutralizing things like javascript:, vbscript: and file: protocols. If you specify a custom function, this default filter won't be called, but you can access it as require('react-markdown').uriTransformer. If you want to disable the default transformer, pass null to this option.
  • transformImageUri - function|null Function that gets called for each encountered image with a single argument - uri. The returned value is used in place of the original.
  • renderers - object An object where the keys represent the node type and the value is a React component. The object is merged with the default renderers. The props passed to the component varies based on the type of node.
  • plugins - array An array of unified/remark parser plugins. If you need to pass options to the plugin, pass an array with two elements, the first being the plugin and the second being the options - for instance: {plugins: [[require('remark-shortcodes'), {your: 'options'}]]. (default: []) Note that not all plugins can be used.
  • parserOptions - object An object containing options to pass to remark-parse.

Parsing HTML

If you are in a trusted environment and want to parse and render HTML, you will want to use the html-parser plugin. For a default configuration, import react-markdown/with-html instead of the default:

const ReactMarkdown = require('react-markdown/with-html')

const markdown = `
This block of Markdown contains <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML">HTML</a>, and will require the <code>html-parser</code> AST plugin to be loaded, in addition to setting the <code class="prop">escapeHtml</code> property to false.
`

<ReactMarkdown
  source={markdown}
  escapeHtml={false}
/>

If you want to specify options for the HTML parsing step, you can instead import the HTML parser plugin directly:

const ReactMarkdown = require('react-markdown')
const htmlParser = require('react-markdown/plugins/html-parser')

// See https://github.com/aknuds1/html-to-react#with-custom-processing-instructions
// for more info on the processing instructions
const parseHtml = htmlParser({
  isValidNode: node => node.type !== 'script',
  processingInstructions: [/* ... */]
})

<ReactMarkdown
  source={markdown}
  escapeHtml={false}
  astPlugins={[parseHtml]}
/>

Node types

The node types available are the following, and applies to both renderers and allowedTypes/disallowedTypes:

  • root - Root container element that contains the rendered markdown
  • text - Text rendered inside of other elements, such as paragraphs
  • break - Hard-break (<br>)
  • paragraph - Paragraph (<p>)
  • emphasis - Emphasis (<em>)
  • strong - Strong/bold (<strong>)
  • thematicBreak - Horizontal rule / thematic break (<hr>)
  • blockquote - Block quote (<blockquote>)
  • delete - Deleted/strike-through (<del>)
  • link - Link (<a>)
  • image - Image (<img>)
  • linkReference - Link (through a reference) (<a>)
  • imageReference - Image (through a reference) (<img>)
  • table - Table (<table>)
  • tableHead - Table head (<thead>)
  • tableBody - Table body (<tbody>)
  • tableRow - Table row (<tr>)
  • tableCell - Table cell (<td>/<th>)
  • list - List (<ul>/<ol>)
  • listItem - List item (<li>)
  • definition - Definition (not rendered by default)
  • heading - Heading (<h1>-<h6>)
  • inlineCode - Inline code (<code>)
  • code - Block of code (<pre><code>)
  • html - HTML node (Best-effort rendering)
  • virtualHtml - When not using the HTML parser plugin, a cheap and dirty approach to supporting simple HTML elements without a complete parser.
  • parsedHtml - When using the HTML parser plugin, HTML parsed to a React element.

Note: Disallowing a node will also prevent the rendering of any children of that node, unless the unwrapDisallowed option is set to true. E.g., disallowing a paragraph will not render its children text nodes.

Developing

git clone git@github.com:rexxars/react-markdown.git
cd react-markdown
npm install
npm test

License

MIT © Espen Hovlandsdal

changelog

Change Log

All notable changes will be documented in this file.

4.3.1 - 2020-01-05

Fixes

  • (Typings) Fix incorrect typescript definitions (Peng Guanwen)

4.3.0 - 2020-01-02

Fixes

  • (Typings) Add typings for react-markdown/html-parser (Peng Guanwen)

4.2.2 - 2019-09-03

Fixes

  • (Typings) Inline RemarkParseOptions for now (Espen Hovlandsdal)

4.2.1 - 2019-09-01

Fixes

  • (Typings) Fix incorrect import - RemarkParseOptions (Jakub Chrzanowski)

4.2.0 - 2019-09-01

Added

  • Add support for plugins that use AST transformations (Frankie Ali)

Fixes

  • (Typings) Add parserOptions to type defintions (Ted Piotrowski)
  • Allow renderer to be any React element type (Nathan Bierema)

4.1.0 - 2019-06-24

Added

  • Add prop parserOptions to specify options for remark-parse (Kelvin Chan)

4.0.9 - 2019-06-22

Fixes

  • (Typings) Make transformLinkUri & transformImageUri actually nullable (Florentin Luca Rieger)

4.0.8 - 2019-04-14

Fixes

  • Fix HTML parsing of elements with a single child vs. multiple children (Nicolas Venegas)

4.0.7 - 2019-04-14

Fixes

  • Fix matching of replaced non-void elements in HTML parser plugin (Nicolas Venegas)
  • Fix HTML parsing of multiple void elements (Nicolas Venegas)
  • Fix void element children invariant violation (Nicolas Venegas)

4.0.6 - 2019-01-04

Fixes

  • Mitigate regex ddos by upgrading html-to-react (Christoph Werner)
  • Update typings to allow arbitrary node types (Jesse Pinho)
  • Readme: Add note about only parsing plugins working (Vincent Tunru)

4.0.4 - 2018-11-30

Changed

  • Upgrade dependencies (Espen Hovlandsdal)

4.0.3 - 2018-10-11

Fixes

  • Output paragraph element for last item in loose list (Jeremy Moseley)

4.0.2 - 2018-10-05

Fixes

  • Fix text rendering in React versions lower than or equal to 15 (Espen Hovlandsdal)

4.0.1 - 2018-10-03

Fixes

  • [TypeScript] Fix TypeScript index signature for renderers (Linus Unnebäck)

4.0.0 - 2018-10-03

BREAKING

  • text is now a first-class node + renderer - if you are using allowedNodes, it needs to be included in this list. Since it is now a React component, it will be passed an object of props instead of the old approach where a string was passed. children will contain the actual text string.
  • On React >= 16.2, if no className prop is provided, a fragment will be used instead of a div. To always render a div, pass 'div' as the root renderer.
  • On React >= 16.2, escaped HTML will no longer be rendered with div/span containers
  • The UMD bundle now exports the component as window.ReactMarkdown instead of window.reactMarkdown

Added

  • HTML parser plugin for full HTML compatibility (Espen Hovlandsdal)

Fixes

  • URI transformer allows uppercase http/https URLs (Liam Kennedy)
  • [TypeScript] Strongly type the keys of renderers (Linus Unnebäck)

3.6.0 - 2018-09-05

Added

  • Add support for passing index info to renderers (Beau Roberts)

3.5.0 - 2018-09-03

Added

  • Allow specifying target attribute for links (Marshall Smith)

3.4.1 - 2018-07-25

Fixes

  • Bump dependency for mdast-add-list-metadata as it was using ES6 features (Espen Hovlandsdal)

3.4.0 - 2018-07-25

Added

  • Add more metadata props to list and listItem (André Staltz)
    • list: depth
    • listItem: ordered, index

Fixes

  • Make source property optional in typescript definition (gRoberts84)

3.3.4 - 2018-06-19

Fixes

  • Fix bug where rendering empty link references ([][]) would fail (Dennis S)

3.3.3 - 2018-06-14

Fixes

  • Fix bug where unwrapping certain disallowed nodes would fail (Petr Gazarov)

3.3.2 - 2018-05-07

Changes

  • Add rawSourcePos property for passing structured source position info to renderers (Espen Hovlandsdal)

3.3.1 - 2018-05-07

Changes

  • Pass properties of unknown nodes directly to renderer (Jesse Pinho)
  • Update TypeScript definition and prop types (ClassicDarkChocolate)

3.3.0 - 2018-03-06

Added

  • Add support for fragment renderers (Benjamim Sonntag)

3.2.2 - 2018-02-26

Fixes

  • Fix language escaping in code blocks (Espen Hovlandsdal)

3.2.1 - 2018-02-21

Fixes

  • Pass the React key into an overridden text renderer (vanchagreen)

3.2.0 - 2018-02-12

Added

  • Allow overriding text renderer (Thibaud Courtoison)

3.1.5 - 2018-02-03

Fixes

  • Only use first language from code block (Espen Hovlandsdal)

3.1.4 - 2017-12-30

Fixes

  • Enable transformImageUri for image references (evoye)

3.1.3 - 2017-12-16

Fixes

  • Exclude babel config from npm package (Espen Hovlandsdal)

3.1.2 - 2017-12-16

Fixes

  • Fixed partial table exception (Alexander Wong)

3.1.1 - 2017-12-11

Fixes

  • Add readOnly property to checkboxes (Phil Rajchgot)

3.1.0 - 2017-11-30

Added

  • Support for checkbox lists (Espen Hovlandsdal)

Fixes

  • Better typings (Igor Kamyshev)

3.0.1 - 2017-11-21

Added

  • Experimental support for plugins (Espen Hovlandsdal)

Changes

  • Provide more arguments to transformLinkUri/transformImageUri (children, title, alt) (mudrz)

3.0.0 - 2017-11-20

Notes

  • FULL REWRITE. Changed parser from CommonMark to Markdown. Big, breaking changes. See BREAKING below.

Added

  • Table support!
    • New types: table, tableHead, tableBody, tableRow, tableCell
  • New type: delete (~~foo~~)
  • New type: imageReference
  • New type: linkReference
  • New type: definition
  • Hacky, but basic support for React-native rendering of attributeless HTML nodes (<kbd>, <sub> etc)

BREAKING

  • Container props removed (containerTagName, containerProps), override root renderer instead
  • softBreak option removed. New solution will be added at some point in the future.
  • escapeHtml is now TRUE by default
  • HtmlInline/HtmlBlock are now named html (use isBlock prop to check if inline or block)
  • Renderer names are camelcased and in certain cases, renamed. For instance:
    • Emph => emphasis
    • Item => listItem
    • Code => inlineCode
    • CodeBlock => code
    • linebreak/hardbreak => break
  • All renderers: literal prop is now called value* List renderer: type prop is now a boolean named ordered (Bullet => false, Ordered => true)
  • walker prop removed. Code depending on this will have to be rewritten to use the astPlugins prop, which functions differently.
  • allowNode has new arguments (node, index, parent) - node has different props, see renderer props
  • childBefore and childAfter props removed. Use root renderer instead.
  • parserOptions removed (new parser, so the old options doesn't make sense anymore)

2.5.1 - 2017-11-11

Changes

  • Fix <br/> not having a node key (Alex Zaworski)

2.5.0 - 2017-04-10

Changes

  • Fix deprecations for React v15.5 (Renée Kooi)

2.4.6 - 2017-03-14

Changes

  • Fix too strict TypeScript definition (Rasmus Eneman)
  • Update JSON-loader info in readme to match webpack 2 (Robin Wieruch)

Added

  • Add ability to pass options to the CommonMark parser (Evan Hensleigh)

2.4.4 - 2017-01-16

Changes

  • Fixed TypeScript definitions (Kohei Asai)

2.4.3 - 2017-01-12

Added

  • Added TypeScript definitions (Ibragimov Ruslan)

2.4.2 - 2016-07-09

Added

  • Added UMD-build (umd/react-markdown.js) (Espen Hovlandsdal)

2.4.1 - 2016-07-09

Changes

  • Update commonmark-react-renderer, fixing a bug with missing nodes (Espen Hovlandsdal)

2.4.0 - 2016-07-09

Changes

  • Plain DOM-node renderers are now given only their respective props. Fixes warnings when using React >= 15.2 (Espen Hovlandsdal)

Added

  • New transformImageUri option allows you to transform URIs for images. (Petri Lehtinen)

2.3.0 - 2016-06-06

Added

  • The walker instance is now passed to the walker callback function (Riku Rouvila)

2.2.0 - 2016-04-20

  • Add childBefore/childAfter options (Thomas Lindstrøm)

2.1.1 - 2016-03-25

  • Add containerProps option (Thomas Lindstrøm)

2.1.0 - 2016-03-12

Changes

  • Join sibling text nodes into one text node (Espen Hovlandsdal)

2.0.1 - 2016-02-21

Changed

  • Update commonmark-react-renderer dependency to latest version to add keys to all elements and simplify custom renderers.

2.0.0 - 2016-02-21

Changed

  • Breaking change: The renderer now requires Node 0.14 or higher. This is because the renderer uses stateless components internally.
  • Breaking change: allowNode now receives different properties in the options argument. See README.md for more details.
  • Breaking change: CommonMark has changed some type names. Html is now HtmlInline, Header is now Heading and HorizontalRule is now ThematicBreak. This affects the allowedTypes and disallowedTypes options.
  • Breaking change: A bug in the allowedTypes/disallowedTypes and allowNode options made them only applicable to certain types. In this version, all types are filtered, as expected.
  • Breaking change: Link URIs are now filtered through an XSS-filter by default, prefixing "dangerous" protocols such as javascript: with x- (eg: javascript:alert('foo') turns into x-javascript:alert('foo')). This can be overridden with the transformLinkUri-option. Pass null to disable the feature or a custom function to replace the built-in behaviour.

Added

  • New renderers option allows you to customize which React component should be used for rendering given types. See README.md for more details. (Espen Hovlandsdal / Guillaume Plique)
  • New unwrapDisallowed option allows you to select if the contents of a disallowed node should be "unwrapped" (placed into the disallowed node position). For instance, setting this option to true and disallowing a link would still render the text of the link, instead of the whole link node and all it's children disappearing. (Espen Hovlandsdal)
  • New transformLinkUri option allows you to transform URIs in links. By default, an XSS-filter is used, but you could also use this for use cases like transforming absolute to relative URLs, or similar. (Espen Hovlandsdal)

1.2.4 - 2016-01-28

Changed

  • Rolled back dependencies because of breaking changes

1.2.3 - 2016-01-24

Changed

  • Updated dependencies for both commonmark and commonmark-react-parser to work around an embarrasing oversight on my part.

1.2.2 - 2016-01-08

Changed

  • Reverted change from 1.2.1 that uses the dist version. Instead, documentation is added that specified the need for json-loader to be enabled when using webpack.

1.2.1 - 2015-12-29

Fixed

  • Use pre-built (dist version) of commonmark renderer in order to work around JSON-loader dependency.

1.2.0 - 2015-12-16

Added

  • Added new allowNode-property. See README for details.

1.1.4 - 2015-12-14

Fixed

  • Set correct libraryTarget to make UMD builds work as expected

1.1.3 - 2015-12-14

Fixed

  • Update babel dependencies and run prepublish only as actual prepublish, not install

1.1.1 - 2015-11-28

Fixed

  • Fixed issue with React external name in global environment (react vs React)

1.1.0 - 2015-11-22

Changed

  • Add ability to allow/disallow specific node types (allowedTypes/disallowedTypes)

1.0.5 - 2015-10-22

Changed

  • Moved React from dependency to peer dependency.