react-showdown

Render React components within markdown and markdown as React components!

Features

• Render markdown as React components.
• Render React components within the markdown!
• Full TypeScript Support.
• Fully tested.
• Supports all Showdown extensions, like the Twitter Extension and the Youtube Extension.
• New in 2.0: Supports Showdown Flavors!
• New in 2.1:
  • Fixes #54: Missing content after a self-closing component. This was fixed by setting the default value of showdown config recognizeSelfClosing to true. Thanks @n1ru4l
  • New feature: add new optional sanitizeHtml prop for sanitizing html before it was rendered. Thanks @n1ru4l aswell.

Installation

npm install --save react-showdown

or

yarn add react-showdown

Use as React component

Example with ES6/JSX:

import React from 'react';
import MarkdownView from 'react-showdown';

export default function App() {
  const markdown = `
# Welcome to React Showdown 👍

To get started, edit the markdown in \`example/src/App.tsx\`.

| Column 1 | Column 2 |
|----------|----------|
| A1       | B1       |
| A2       | B2       |
`;

  return (
    <MarkdownView
      markdown={markdown}
      options={{ tables: true, emoji: true }}
    />
  );
};

Use a React component and use it within the markdown with ES6 / TypeScript:

import MarkdownView from 'react-showdown';

function CustomComponent({ name }: { name: string }) {
  return <span>Hello {name}!</span>;
}

const markdown = `
# A custom component:

<CustomComponent name="world" />`;

<MarkdownView markdown={markdown} components={{ CustomComponent }} />

Available props

• markdown, string, required
• flavor, Flavor, optional
• options, ConverterOptions, optional
• extensions, showdown extensions, optional
• components, components, optional

Converter options will be pushed forward to the showdown converter, please checkout the valid options section.

Credits

Project is based on the markdown parser Showdown and the html parser htmlparser2.

Alternatives

• reactdown
• react-markdown, based on commonmark.js
• commonmark-react-renderer, based on commonmark.js