@bacons/mdx

MDX support for React Native projects.

Add the package to your npm dependencies

yarn add @bacons/mdx

Setup

Add support for importing md and mdx files in your metro.config.js file.

metro.config.js

const { getDefaultConfig } = require("expo/metro-config");

const config = getDefaultConfig(__dirname);

config.resolver.sourceExts.push("md", "mdx");

config.transformer.babelTransformerPath = require.resolve("./transformer.js");

module.exports = config;

Create a custom metro transformer. This is used to transform MDX files into JS + React Native before transpiling with Babel.

./transformer.js

const upstreamTransformer = require("metro-react-native-babel-transformer");
const MdxTransformer = require("@bacons/mdx/metro-transformer");

module.exports.transform = async (props) => {
  // Then pass it to the upstream transformer.
  return upstreamTransformer.transform(
    // Transpile MDX first.
    await MdxTransformer.transform(props)
  );
};

Usage

Create a markdown file:

./demo.mdx

import { CustomComponent } from './my-custom-component';

# Hello World

I **am** a _markdown_ file!

<CustomComponent />

This file can be imported and treated as a React component:

./App.js

import Demo from "./demo.mdx";

export default function App() {
  return <Demo />;
}

Custom styles

This package works similarly to most docs sites. You create high-level styles for the entire site. This can be cascaded down to reduce the scope of a style.

import { MDXStyles } from "@bacons/mdx";

export default function App() {
  // Pass any HTML element as a key to the MDXStyles component.
  return (
    <MDXStyles
      h1={{
        fontSize: 32,
        fontWeight: "bold",
        color: "red",
      }}
    >
      <Demo />
    </MDXStyles>
  );
}

The <MDXStyles> components can be stacked in different levels, think of these like CSS classes.

Custom components

Probably I didn't get the elements right, most React Native markdown packages don't. You can unblock yourself by overwriting certain elements:

import { Text } from "react-native";
import { MDXComponents } from "@bacons/mdx";

export default function App() {
  // Pass any HTML element as a key to the MDXStyles component.
  return (
    <MDXComponents h1={(props) => <Text {...props} />}>
      <Demo />
    </MDXComponents>
  );
}

Just be sure to pass the style prop down to the component you're using, this is how the styles are cascaded.

Known Issues

ol, li, ul are all buggy. PRs welcome.
Native image ratios are weird.

erdalstk / expo-mdx