unified VS Docusaurus

From TFA:

> My idea was that surely it's possible to write a bunch of markdown, and then have that get wrapped in a bunch of JSX tags that come pre-styled, using the styles of your existing repo? For example, what I expected was to be able to write *test* (Markdown for bold) and then get a component that looked liketest where is a library-defined React component

It surely is possible, so perhaps I can share some links if others are wondering the same thing.

If you like to roll your own solution for that, you can use the unified ecosystem: https://unifiedjs.com/

However, if you want JSX just do what everyone does and reach for MDX:

Styling the blog, figure out the eco-system within UnifiedJs, remark-rehype, oh boy, I could write another blog with that.

To build the Markdown editor (and the preview, mostly), I decided to use unified, an ecosystem of tools allowing the developer to parse a format into an abstract tree and back into another format (for example, markdown to html) and modify said tree (for example, to add specific classes to certain html elements before they are converted to an actual html string. The basics of how to do so can be found in this article, but they mostly consist of:

It’ll take you a few hours to become proficient in the “unified” syntax tree libraries. So worth it. Easy fully customized conversion to/from html, react, plain text, markdown, you name it. https://unifiedjs.com/

Why universal? Because a lot of languages are simillar in a bunch of ways and it might be good to reuse existing parts of the compiler to speed up the process of writing new DSLs for example. Also a pretty big use-case is not for compilers itself but just for transformers like Markdown to HTML, there are already a lot of libraries (like https://github.com/unifiedjs/unified for ASTs and https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/ for parsing) that try achieve similar goals but they are not working together.

Unified is a framework to process Markdown. It's a plugin-based tool that allows you to inspect and modify the way Markdown is converted to other formats like HTML.

under the hood, the markdown is parsed by the unified remark and rehype processors, which in turn under the hood manipulate the markdown + HTML as an AST, which gives a lot of flexibility on parsing and rendering markdown. The editor uses them as plugins, which allows me to pick the features and inject them into the editor, one such injectable feature is the custom-made "copy from anywhere & paste as markdown" feature.

Having the flexibility to create custom React Components for markdown is essential and with react-markdown, we can achieve this in just a few lines of code. Boosting performance, increasing link security, and having overall increased capabilities for our markdown data are what we achieve here. Aside from the improvements within our application, this component is super easy to use and taps us into the unifiedjs (giving us superpowers!).

The Markdown processor used unified assets.

Docusaurus is a popular open-source documentation tool primarily designed for product documentation and other technical documentation needs. It was first released in 2017 by Facebook Open Source (now Meta Open Source). Just recently, Docsaurus version 3.0 was released.

// @ts-check // `@type` JSDoc annotations allow editor autocompletion and type checking // (when paired with `@ts-check`). // There are various equivalent ways to declare your Docusaurus config. // See: https://docusaurus.io/docs/api/docusaurus-config import { themes as prismThemes } from "prism-react-renderer"; /** @type {import('@docusaurus/types').Config} */ const config = { title: "My Site", tagline: "Dinosaurs are cool", url: "https://your-docusaurus-test-site.com", baseUrl: "/", onBrokenLinks: "throw", onBrokenMarkdownLinks: "warn", favicon: "img/favicon.ico", organizationName: "facebook", // Usually your GitHub org/user name. projectName: "docusaurus", // Usually your repo name. presets: [ [ "docusaurus-preset-openapi", /** @type {import('docusaurus-preset-openapi').Options} */ ({ docs: { sidebarPath: require.resolve("./sidebars.js"), // Please change this to your repo. editUrl: "https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/tree/main/packages/create-docusaurus/templates/shared/", }, blog: { showReadingTime: true, // Please change this to your repo. editUrl: "https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/tree/main/packages/create-docusaurus/templates/shared/", }, theme: { customCss: require.resolve("./src/css/custom.css"), }, }), ], ], themeConfig: /** @type {import('docusaurus-preset-openapi').ThemeConfig} */ ({ navbar: { title: "My Site", logo: { alt: "My Site Logo", src: "img/logo.svg", }, items: [ { type: "doc", docId: "intro", position: "left", label: "Tutorial", }, { to: "/api", label: "API", position: "left" }, { to: "/blog", label: "Blog", position: "left" }, { href: "https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus", label: "GitHub", position: "right", }, ], }, footer: { style: "dark", links: [ { title: "Docs", items: [ { label: "Tutorial", to: "/docs/intro", }, ], }, { title: "Community", items: [ { label: "Stack Overflow", href: "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/docusaurus", }, { label: "Discord", href: "https://discordapp.com/invite/docusaurus", }, { label: "Twitter", href: "https://twitter.com/docusaurus", }, ], }, { title: "More", items: [ { label: "Blog", to: "/blog", }, { label: "GitHub", href: "https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus", }, ], }, ], copyright: `Copyright © ${new Date().getFullYear()} My Project, Inc. Built with Docusaurus.`, }, prism: { theme: prismThemes.github, darkTheme: prismThemes.dracula, }, }), }; export default config;

Facebook's React/Markdown SSG docusaurus does those things: https://docusaurus.io/

Though you may have to use a plugin for responsive images: https://docusaurus.io/docs/api/plugins/@docusaurus/plugin-id...

Docusaurus is an open-source static site generator built on React and has emerged as a popular tool for developing and maintaining product documentation. Its ease of use, extensive features, and robust community support make it a compelling choice for many organizations.

Wondering why Docusaurus (https://docusaurus.io) did not match their needs. Works perfectly fine as a blogging engine for our tech blog.

This is developed by Meta. You can create really nice-looking documentation websites super fast.

Docusaurus, a documentation tool by Facebook, hosts a showcase of other websites that use Docusaurus on their Homepage. The list of websites of this showcase is a typescript files that is maintained by Docusaurus devs, and that you can add your website to through PR: https://github.com/facebook/docusaurus/blob/main/website/src/data/users.tsx

Fix "Edit this page" links at the bottom of each doc (Problem with the Docusaurus build I guess)