MarkPlus

A React markdown editor and previewer.

Online Demo

Installation

yarn add react-markplus

Usage

import MarkPlus from 'react-markplus';

<MarkPlus markdown="# Hello world!" />;

markdown

Initial markdown text to load into the editor.

<MarkPlus markdown="# Hello world!" />

Default value is ''.

toolbar

Show, hide or remove toolbar.

<MarkPlus toolbar="show" />

3 possible values:

• show: show toolbar, show a gutter below toolbar. Click the gutter to hide toolbar.
• hide: hide toolbar, show a gutter on top. Click the gutter to show toolbar.
• none: no toolbar, no gutter.

Default value: show.

mode

Display editor, preview or both.

<MarkPlus mode="both" />

3 possible values:

• both: show both editor and preview
  • there is a vertical gutter between editor and preview, you may drag the gutter to adjust sizes of them.
• editor: show editor only
• preview: show preview only
  • Use this mode if you don't need any editing feature.
  • in this mode this library is a markdown renderer.

Default value: both.

theme

Overall theme: light, dark or auto:

<MarkPlus theme="auto" />

3 possible values:

• light: light theme
• dark: dark theme
• auto: same as system theme

Default value: auto.

toolbarItems

You may configure the toolbar freely.

<MarkPlus toolbarItems={['about', '|', 'bold', 'italic']} />

A toolbar item could be either a string or a ReactElement. For toolbar items included with library, you may just specify a string. For your own custom toolbar items, please specify a ReactElement.

Included toolbar Items

• 'about'
  • show a modal about MarkPlus
• '|'
  • a vertical separator
• 'bold'
  • make text bold
• 'italic'
  • make text italic
• 'strikethrough'
  • make text strokethrough
• 'underline'
  • make text underlined
• 'mark'
  • make text marked
• 'emoji'
  • show a modal to insert emojis
• 'fontawesome'
  • show a modal to insert fontawesome icons
• 'quote'
  • quote text
• 'unordered-list'
  • create unordered list item
• 'ordered-list'
  • create ordered list item
• 'unchecked-list'
  • create unchecked task list item
• 'checked-list'
  • create checked task list item
• 'link'
  • insert a link
• 'image'
  • insert a image
• 'code'
  • insert a code snippet
• 'table'
  • insert a table
• 'math'
  • insert some math formulas
• 'mermaid'
  • insert some mermaid charts
• 'chartjs'
  • insert some Chart.js charts

Default toolbar items

import { defaultToolbarItems } from 'react-markplus';

Its value is:

[
  'about',
  '|',
  'bold',
  'italic',
  'strikethrough',
  'underline',
  'mark',
  '|',
  'emoji',
  'fontawesome',
  '|',
  'quote',
  'unordered-list',
  'ordered-list',
  'unchecked-list',
  'checked-list',
  '|',
  'link',
  'image',
  'code',
  'table',
  '|',
  'math',
  'mermaid',
  'chartjs',
];

You may add or remote items from it to customize your own toolbar.

Custom toolbar item

Here is a sample to create and insert a custom toolbar item:

<MarkPlus
  toolbarItems={[
    'about',
    '|',
    <i
      key="preferences"
      title="Preferences"
      className="fa fa-cog"
      onClick={() => {
        console.log('Todo: display a preferences modal');
      }}
    ></i>,
  ]}
/>