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@crazydos/vue-markdown

This is a package that provide Vue 3+ component to render markdown content with unified pipeline.

And is referenced from react-markdown.

@crazydos/vue-markdown

Feature

Render markdown content
Support unfied remark and rehype plugins for customization
Can customize attributes of html tags (e.g: class, target, rel ....)
Can use custom template for rendering tag by vue scoped slot
Support <slot> in markdown content (need rehype-raw)
Prevent unsafe html by rehype-sanitize (optional)

Install

npm install @crazydos/vue-markdown

About unified plugins

Recently, the unified ecosystem is undergoing updates for its plugins. This may result in version incompatibility issues, leading to unexpected runtime errors or problems with Typescript. vue-markdown uses unified 10, so please ensure that the unified plugin you intend to use corresponds to unified 10.

Here are the recommended versions for the plugins:

rehype-raw: 6.1.1
remark-gfm: 3.0.1
others: not tested....

Usages

Basic

You can pass markdown content through the markdown prop.

<script setup>
import { ref } from 'vue'
import VueMarkdown from '@crazydos/vue-markdown'

const markdown = ref('## Hello World')
</script>

<template>
  <VueMarkdown :markdown="markdown" />
</template>

Rendering `GFM`

This package uses the unified pipeline to render Markdown. By default, it only supports basic Markdown syntax (CommonMark). If you need support for other Markdown syntax, you'll need to insert the corresponding unified plugin.

For features like tables, footnotes, task lists, etc., you need to include the remark-gfm plugin. (If you need support for other Markdown syntax like math, please use plugins as well.)

You can use the remark-plugins prop to pass in remark plugins.

npm install remark-gfm@3.0.1

<script setup>
import { ref } from 'vue'
import VueMarkdown from '@crazydos/vue-markdown'
import remarkGfm from 'remark-gfm'

const markdown = ref(`## Hello World

- [x] Add some task
- [ ] Do some task
`)
</script>

<template>
  <!-- simple usage -->
  <VueMarkdown :markdown="markdown" :remark-plugins="[remarkGfm]" />
</template>

Custom attributes

You can customize tags for individual HTML elements, for example, by adding default classes or setting attributes like target, rel, lazyload, etc. The customAttrs will be passed into Vue's h function, so it will have the same effect as passing attributes to a h. Please refer to Vue's official documentation to understand the effects of different data types when passed to the h function.

<script setup>
import { ref } from 'vue'
import VueMarkdown from '@crazydos/vue-markdown'

const markdown = ref(`
# Hello world

## Hello World 2

[Google](https://www.google.com)

`)

const customAttrs = {
  // use html tag name as key 
  h1: { 'class': ["heading"] },
  h2: { 'class': ["heading"] },
  a: { target: '_blank', rel: "noopener noreferrer" }
}
</script>

<template>
  <VueMarkdown :markdown="markdown" :custom-attrs="customAttrs" />
</template>

customAttrs provides some advanced functionalities: pass in a function for more flexible configurations.

const customAttrs = {
  h1: { 'class': ["heading"] },
  h2: { 'class': ["heading"] },
  a: (node, combinedAttrs) => { 
    if(node.properties.href.startsWith('https://www.google.com')){
      return { target: '_blank', rel: "noopener noreferrer"}
    } else {
      return {}
    }
  }
}

Some tags also have aliases, for example, the heading alias can be used for h1 through h6 tags.

For example, if we want to configure it as follows:

const customAttrs = {
  h1: { 'class': ["heading"] },
  h2: { 'class': ["heading"] },
}

This is equivalent to:

const customAttrs = {
  heading: { class: ["heading"] }
}

It can also receive a function for configuration.

// will set 
// class="heading heading-1" for h1
// class="heading heading-2" for h2
// .......
const customAttrs = {
  heading: (node, combinedAttrs) => {
    return { class: ["heading", `heading-${combinedAttrs.level}`] }
  }
}

Please refer to the doc, check parameter the function can accept.

Customize tag rendering with scoped slot

This feature is a bit more cumbersome in Vue. If customAttrs doesn't meet your needs, you can customize tags through a scoped slot.

<VueMarkdown
  markdown="## hello world"
>
  <template #h2="{ children, ...props }">
    <h1 v-bind="props">
      <Component :is="children" />
    </h1>
  </template>

</VueMarkdown>

If you want to display the text "hello world" in the example, you need to render the children. You can obtain the children from slot props, and it represents the children of the h1. Since I've turned it into a functional component, you must render it using <Component>. You can also render children wherever you want.

The parameters received by the scoped slot are essentially the same. However, some slots may receive special parameters; for example, in the ul element, it might receive depth, indicating the nesting level in a list and specifying which level it is.

<VueMarkdown
  :markdown="`## title
  
- list 1
  - list 2
    - list 3
`"
>
  <template #ul="{ children, depth, ...props }">
    <ul :class="['unordered-list', `list-depth-${depth}`]">
      <Component :is="children" />
    </ul>
  </template>

</VueMarkdown>

Additionally, similarly, the scoped slot also provides the same HTML tag alias as customAttrs. You can use the alias to insert into the slot.

<template>
  <VueMarkdown
    :markdown="`
  # hello world

  ## hello world

  ### hello world

  #### hello world

  ##### hello world

  ###### hello world
  `"
  >
    <template #heading="{ children, level, key, ...props }">
      <MyCustomHeading :level="level" :key="key">
        <Component :is="children" />
      </MyCustomHeading>
    </template>
  </VueMarkdown>
</template>

For more, please refer to scoped slot

re-render issue

I would recommend keeping the state in the parent component and then passing it down to the Custom Component. When your Markdown changes, especially when implementing an editor feature, the position of elements in the tree nodes can frequently change, causing the components within to be remounted intermittently, resetting their states (even with keys added).

Use `<slot>` in markdown

You can use the <slot> syntax in Markdown, but you need to configure the following:

setup rehype-raw plugins
set :sanitize="false"

npm install rehype-raw@6.1.1

In the following example, we write Vue-like slot syntax in Markdown and can insert this slot from the parent component. At the same time, you can obtain slot props.

Currently, it does not support Vue template syntax like v-bind (supporting this would be a bit more challenging).

NOTE: Before v0.2.0,please use <slot name="custom />" to specify slot name

<script setup>
import { ref } from 'vue'
import VueMarkdown from '@crazydos/vue-markdown'
import remarkRaw from 'rehype-raw'

const markdown = ref(`
## Hello Slot

<slot slot-name="custom" msg="Insert from vue component"></slot>
`)
</script>

<template>
  <!-- simple usage -->
  <VueMarkdown :markdown="markdown" :rehype-plugins="[remarkRaw]" :sanitize="false">
    <template #custom="{ msg }">
      <span> {{ msg }} </span>
    </template>
  </VueMarkdown>
</template>

Security

To defend against various attacks (e.g., XSS), we use the rehype-sanitize unified plugin internally. To enable it, please add :sanitize="true".

Refer to the rehype-sanitize documentation for configuration details.

Here's an example configuration that prevents the rendering of all HTML tags, displaying only text:

<script setup lang="ts">
import { ref } from 'vue'
import VueMarkdown, { SanitizeOptions } from '@crazydos/vue-markdown'

const sanitizeOption: SanitizeOptions = {
  // Please pass the parameters of rehype-sanitize into the sanitizeOptions:
  sanitizeOptions: {
    tagNames: [],
  },
  
  // mergeOptions: Optional. Internally, we use the `deepmerge` package to combine `defaultSchema` and `sanitizeOptions`. You can adjust the merging behavior in `mergeOptions`.
  mergeOptions: {
    arrayMerge: (target, source) => {
      return source
    },
  },
}
</script>
<template>
  <VueMarkdown
    :markdown="content"
    :custom-attrs="customAttrs"
    :remark-plugins="[remarkGfm]"
    :rehype-plugins="[rehypeRaw]"
    :sanitize-options="sanitizeOption"
    sanitize
  ></VueMarkdown>
</template>

doc: `scoped slot` and `custom attrs`

In both scoped slots and customAttrs, you can receive additional parameters. Besides the HTML attributes that can be set in Markdown, vue-markdown also provides additional parameters.

h1 ~ h6, heading:
- level: number，represent heading level
code, inline-code, block-code:
- language: string。represent language. e.g: js, sh, md ....
- languageOriginal: string. It's typically in the form of language- followed by the language, for example, language-js, language-sh. Similar to the language parameter, but language provides a simpler representation.
- inline: boolean，inline-code or block-code
th, td, tr:
- isHead: boolean。Is it in thead.
list, ol, ul:
- ordered: ordered-list or not
- depth: In nested lists, it indicates the level at which the list is positioned. The first level is 0.
list-item, li:
- ordered: Is in ordered-list or not.
- depth: In nested lists, it indicates the level at which the list is positioned. The first level is 0.
- index: It represents the position of the list item within its current level. The first item at any level is considered 0.

doc: attributes aliases

Attribute aliases can be used in the configuration of both scoped slot and customAttrs. Generally, if you are using aliases for configuration or inserting slots, the alias configuration will take precedence over its corresponding HTML tag.

heading: h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6
list: ol, ul
list-item: li
inline-code: code which is inline
block-code: code which is block code in pre tag