vite-plugin-markdown

A plugin enables you to import a Markdown file as various formats on your vite project.

Setup

npx i -D vite-plugin-markdown

For vite v1

npx i -D vite-plugin-markdown@vite-1

Config

const mdPlugin = require('vite-plugin-markdown')

module.exports = {
  plugins: [mdPlugin(options)]
}

Then you can import front matter attributes from .md file as default.

---
title: Awesome Title
description: Describe this awesome content
tags:
  - "great"
  - "awesome"
  - "rad"
---

# This is awesome

Vite is an opinionated web dev build tool that serves your code via native ES Module imports during dev and bundles it with Rollup for production.

import { attributes } from './contents/the-doc.md';

console.log(attributes) //=> { title: 'Awesome Title', description: 'Describe this awesome content', tags: ['great', 'awesome', 'rad'] }

Options

mode?: ('html' | 'toc' | 'react' | 'vue')[]
markdown?: (body: string) => string
markdownIt?: MarkdownIt | MarkdownIt.Options

Enum for mode is provided as Mode

import { Mode } from 'vite-plugin-markdown'

console.log(Mode.HTML) //=> 'html'
console.log(Mode.TOC) //=> 'toc'
console.log(Mode.REACT) //=> 'react'
console.log(Mode.VUE) //=> 'vue'

"Mode" enables you to import markdown file in various formats (HTML, ToC, React/Vue Component)

Mode.HTML

Import compiled HTML

# This is awesome

Vite is an opinionated web dev build tool that serves your code via native ES Module imports during dev and bundles it with Rollup for production.

import { html } from './contents/the-doc.md';

console.log(html) //=> "<h1>This is awesome</h1><p>ite is an opinionated web dev build tool that serves your code via native ES Module imports during dev and bundles it with Rollup for production.</p>"

Mode.TOC

Import ToC metadata

# vite

Vite is an opinionated web dev build tool that serves your code via native ES Module imports during dev and bundles it with Rollup for production.

## Status

## Getting Started

# Notes

import { toc } from './contents/the-doc.md'

console.log(toc) //=> [{ level: '1', content: 'vite' }, { level: '2', content: 'Status' }, { level: '2', content: 'Getting Started' }, { level: '1', content: 'Notes' },]

Mode.REACT

Import as a React component

import React from 'react'
import { ReactComponent } from './contents/the-doc.md'

function MyReactApp() {
  return (
    <div>
      <ReactComponent />
    </div>
}

Custom Element on a markdown file can be runnable as a React component as well

# This is awesome

Vite is <MyComponent type={'react'}>

import React from 'react'
import { ReactComponent } from './contents/the-doc.md'
import { MyComponent } from './my-component'

function MyReactApp() {
  return (
    <div>
      <ReactComponent my-component={MyComponent} />
    </div>
}

MyComponent on markdown perform as a React component.

Mode.VUE

Import as a Vue component

<template>
  <article>
    <markdown-content />
  </article>
</template>

<script>
import { VueComponent } from './contents/the-doc.md'

export default {
  components: {
    MarkdownContent: VueComponent
  }
};
</script>

Custom Element on a markdown file can be runnable as a Vue component as well

# This is awesome

Vite is <MyComponent :type="'vue'">

<template>
  <article>
    <markdown-content />
  </article>
</template>

<script>
import { VueComponentWith } from './contents/the-doc.md'
import MyComponent from './my-component.vue'

export default {
  components: {
    MarkdownContent: VueComponentWith({ MyComponent })
  }
};
</script>

MyComponent on markdown perform as a Vue component.

Type declarations

In TypeScript project, need to declare typedefs for .md file as you need.

declare module '*.md' {
  // "unknown" would be more detailed depends on how you structure frontmatter
  const attributes: Record<string, unknown>; 

  // When "Mode.TOC" is requested
  const toc: { level: string, content: string }[];

  // When "Mode.HTML" is requested
  const html: string;

  // When "Mode.React" is requested. VFC could take a generic like React.VFC<{ MyComponent: TypeOfMyComponent }>
  import React from 'react'
  const ReactComponent: React.VFC;
  
  // When "Mode.Vue" is requested
  import { ComponentOptions, Component } from 'vue';
  const VueComponent: ComponentOptions;
  const VueComponentWith: (components: Record<string, Component>) => ComponentOptions;

  // Modify below per your usage
  export { attributes, toc, html, ReactComponent, VueComponent, VueComponentWith };
}

Save as vite.d.ts for instance.

License

MIT