react-syntax-highlighter VS openchakra

The OpenAI API returns responses in Markdown format. To display responses from the chat, which contain formatting, I used the ReactMarkdown component. For code inserts, I used React Syntax Highlighter.

You have variation of themes for react-syntax-highlighter depending if you are using hljs or prisma. Here you can find all available themes for hljs and for prisma.

react-syntax-highlighter I used this to highlight code segments when the app steps through the code.

For code highlighting, I used react syntax highlighter.

React has a huge amount of components that can help us with both of these. I decided to use react-zoom-pan-pinch for image zoom and react-syntax-highlighter for syntax highlight.

react-syntax-highlighter: Syntax highlighting component for React.

The above code will render our code snippet where the {value} tag is. And we are setting a few properties to our Syntax Highlighter such as style & showLineNumbers. For a full list of properties, check out the GitHub Readme for react-syntax-highlighter.

Here React Markdown, React Syntax Highlighter and the Remark GFM plugin is used. React Markdown helps with parsing markdown and Remark GFM adds support for GitHub Flavoured Markdown. React Syntax Highlighter does syntax highlighting for code snippets in a comment.

React Syntax Highlighter, README

Are you using opencharka[0] then? I investigated that a while ago and was not very impressed or happy with any code that it generated, but curious to see if you've figured something else out.

[0] https://github.com/premieroctet/openchakra

Do you know of any open source drag and drop builders? I would love to be able to create my own components and drag and drop to combine them. If you know of any that are React specific, that would be great, but any builder would be helpful.

One example that I know of is https://openchakra.app/ for React apps that are using Chakra UI.

The original idea and inspiration for the Crayons Playground came from the full-featured visual editor and code generator for React using Chakra UI called openchakra. All the underlying architecture, code organization and design & communication patterns are borrowed from openchakra. The only difference is Crayons Playground doesn't make use of any JavaScript framework whereas openchakra is completely built using React.

In a nutshell, I wanted to easily add in all the components / design system from Material UI or Ant Design into the drag and drop interface, so I can play around with them, in a way similar to https://openchakra.app/

I started doing some mock-ups in my brain. Then I recreated some of them on Figma and then decided to start building. I started with OpenChakra (because I am using Chakra UI, more on that later).

Would you two be able to share some take-aways from that conversation at some point? Maybe write up a short comparison of the projects as they are now and any differences in roadmap/vision that could be relevant.

I always appreciate when OSS projects put in effort to understand and position themselves in relation to competitors (or potential collaborators).

Also want to mention some open-source React visual drag and drop page editors that might be useful for inspiration or to eliminate possible duplicate work. There's OpenChakra [0] and Blocks [1], which are apps, and then there's craft.js, a library that aims to modularize "the building blocks of a page editor" and seems to have more emphasis on customizing the actual editor UI.

Best of luck to you both!

[0] https://github.com/premieroctet/openchakra