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Getting Started with Leonidas

Markdown of the 21st century

Leonidas is a Markdown Extention powered by React and Javascript Leonidas serves to add CSS features like color, background-color to your Markdown. It has support for HTML, CSS and even Basic Javascript It even supports forms, data binding, and even API usage.

Getting Started

Simply install it with this command

npm i leonidas

Write that and you're ready to go!

Adding Leonidas to your project

To Import Leonidas, use the following code

import Leonidas from "leonidas";

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <Leonidas text={"@(fontSize:10vw) # Hello World!"} />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Leonidas Properties

To Add a property, just type @(your-property-name:your-value) All CSS properties are supported and should have the same names. However, names with hyphens, like background-color become backgroundColor, and margin-left becomes marginLeft. Otherwise it should be the same

Leonidas Units.

All CSS Units are supported However, the default unit is rem instead of the default pixel. Everything is Responsive by default

Leonidas Modules

Modules Supported are: 1. rehype-raw :

To Add type -(add:html)
To Remove type -(remove:html).
Added by default.
Used for HTML

rehype-sanitize :
- To Add type -(add:sanitize)
- To Remove type -(remove:sanitize)
- Added by default
- Used for Sanitization of Document
rehype-katex :
- To Add type -(add:katex)
- To Remove type -(remove:katex)
- Not Added by default.
- Used for Syntax Highlighting
remark-gfm :
- To Add type -(add:ttu)
- To Remove type -(remove:ttu)
- Added by default
- Used for Tables, Links, Images, Lists, etc
remark-math :
- To Add type -(add:math)
- To Remove type -(remove:math)
- Not Added by default
- Used for Math

Leonidas Templates

View the Template source here. There are a wide number of templates which make your job easier

Examples

Cool Text

import Leonidas from "leonidas";

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <Leonidas text={`
      @(color:lightblue)
      @(textAlign:center)
      @(fontKerning:none)
      @(fontWeight:500)
      @(letterSpacing:10px)
      @(outline: 5px solid white)
      @(textShadow: 2px 5px magenta)
      @(transform: skewY(-10deg)
      @(zoom:1.2)
      @(marginBottom:100px)
      
      # Leonidas!`} />
    </div>
  );
}

Output

Media

import Leonidas from "leonidas";

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <Leonidas text={`
      @(borderLeft:10px solid black)
      @(fontSize:10vw)
      @(color:black)
      @(fontKerning:none)
      
      # Image
      ![image](https://images.pexels.com/photos/326055/pexels-photo-326055.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=350&w=140)

      # Link
      [Link to Picture](https://images.pexels.com/photos/326055/pexels-photo-326055.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=2&h=350&w=140)

     # Email
     <youremail@gmail.com>
      `} />
    </div>
  );
}