jpreagan.com VS next-mdx-remote

You are welcome to take inspiration or use code from my website, but please remove my personal information and content. The source code is available on GitHub with updated documentation to make it easier for you to start. If you have any questions or feedback, don't hesitate to reach me on Twitter."

Also, note I've made use of some styling here; just a minimal example of how you can use Tailwind CSS and the official Tailwind Typography plugin. It's really fantastic for this sort of use case. If you're curious more about the styling have a look at the GitHub repo.

Here I'm using remarkGfm to provide GitHub Flavored Markdown, and rehype-prism-plus to give syntax highlighting for code blocks. You'll need to import a prism theme in /pages/_app.tsx or add your own custom tokens to global styles. I went with the latter option and you can take a look at how I did that here.

You can see my page here, and the code lives here. Also, be sure to check out Lee Robinson's personal dashboard for more inspiration.

next-mdx-remote

We are going to be using next-mdx-remote for this tutorial. Let us install it -

So, i was reading the docs and Next/MDX looks exactly what i need for my blog. Well, not exactly because having hundreds of Markdown Pages doesn't look the best way to store the pages, and i was wondering if are any way to generate those pages from a DataBase full of Markdown pages. I read about next-MDX-remote but i was wondering if is there a native way to do that.

next-mdx-remote, a community package maintained by Hashicorp that allows you to use MDX from outside your project.

Do note that Code Hike also works with Next MDX Remote and MDX Bundler however, we are going to look at a simple example with the official MDX plugin for Next.js.

Refer the next-mdx-remote github to learn more the use of plugins and how awesome things could be done using MDX.

You could try storing mdx in wordpress somehow (I'm not a wordpress expert) and using next-mdx-remote to render that at runtime. MDX can contain both markdown and react components.

MDX is an extension on Markdown which, lets you import custom React components into your blog posts. To use MDX with Next.js you need to use a separate package. There are a few choices with MDX-remote being a popular one, but it has some drawbacks. For that reason, I chose to use mdx-bundler.

Sandpack is a live coding environment that runs on the browser. It is made by the team behind CodeSandbox/. The main objective here is to provide interactive examples to play around with, to users. I see it being widely used in things like blog posts and documentation (in fact the, work in progress, new React Docs is using Sandpack). In this article, we are going to look at how to add Sandpack to a React Application and then we will look at integrating it with Next MDX Remote in a NextJS Application.