Render Markdown as React components using marked

marked-react

Render Markdown as React components using marked.

TL;DR

• Uses marked to parse markdown
• Renders actual react elements instead of using dangerouslySetInnerHTML

Installation

$ npm i marked-react

Usage

import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import Markdown from 'marked-react';

const rootEl = document.getElementById('root');
ReactDOM.render(<Markdown># Hello world!</Markdown>, rootEl);

Component Props

• value[string] - Markdown content.
• baseURL [string] - A prefix url for any relative link.
• openLinksInNewTab [boolean] - Attribute target=_blank will be added to link elements
• langPrefix [string] - A string to prefix the className in a <code> block. Useful for syntax highlighting. Defaults to language-.
• breaks [boolean] - Add br tag on single line breaks. Requires gfm to be true
• gfm [boolean] - Use approved Github Flavoured Markdown

Syntax highlight code blocks

There are some awesome options available to highlight code

• react-syntax-highlighter
• react-lowlight
• react-refractor

An example with react-lowlight

import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import Markdown from 'marked-react';
import Lowlight from 'react-lowlight';
import javascript from 'highlight.js/lib/languages/javascript';

Lowlight.registerLanguage('js', javascript);

const renderer = {
  code: (snippet, lang) => {
    return <Lowlight language={lang} value={snippet} />;
  },
};

const markdown = 'console.log("Hello world!")';

const rootEl = document.getElementById('root');
ReactDOM.render(<Markdown value={markdown} renderer={renderer} />, rootEl);