copy-as-markdown

A React hook to copy text as Markdown.

Why?

Copying text as Markdown is helpful for blog posts or documentation pages that were authored in Markdown and may be copied into other documents or code comments. Instead of copying plain text or rich text, this utility will copy the selected content as Markdown.

copy-as-markdown

Usage

Install:

yarn add @cnakazawa/copy-as-markdown

Use:

import useCopyAsMarkdown from '@cnakazawa/copy-as-markdown';

export default function MyComponent() {
  const setRef = useCopyAsMarkdown();

  return (
    <div ref={setRef}>
      <h1>When copied, this will turn into Markdown</h1>
      Any <em>rich content</em> inside of this container will be copied as <strong>
        Markdown
      </strong>.
    </div>
  );
}

This library uses turndown to convert HTML to Markdown. You can pass any turndown Options to the useCopyAsMarkdown hook:

const setRef = useCopyAsMarkdown({
  bulletListMarker: '-',
  strongDelimiter: '__',
});

GitHub

https://github.com/cpojer/copy-as-markdown