remark-slate

Transform the contents of a slate 0.50+ editor into markdown and back again.

remark plugin to compile Markdown as a Slate 0.50+ compatible object.

• Slate ➡️ Markdown:
• Markdown ➡️ Slate:
• Miscellaneous
• Local Development
  • npm start or yarn start
  • npm run build or yarn build
  • npm test or yarn test
• License (MIT)

Usage

Slate object to Markdown:

remark-slate exports an opinionated serialize function that is meant to be invoked with a slate 0.50+ state object and will transform the object into a markdown document.

import { serialize } from 'remark-slate';

export default ({ onChange }) => {
  const [value, setValue] = useState(initialValue);

  const handleChange = useCallback((nextValue) => {
    setValue(nextValue);
    // serialize slate state to a markdown string
    onChange(value.map((v) => serialize(v)).join(''));
  }, [onChange]);

  return (
    <Slate editor={editor} value={value} onChange={handleChange}>
      <Editable
        renderElement={renderElement}
        renderLeaf={renderLeaf}
        placeholder="Enter some rich text…"
        ...
      />
      ...
    </Slate>
  );
};

Markdown to Slate object:

When deserializing from markdown to slate, this package is meant to be used with remark-parse and unified.

Our JS looks something like this:

import fs from 'fs';
import unified from 'unified';
import markdown from 'remark-parse';
import slate from 'remark-slate';

unified()
  .use(markdown)
  .use(slate)
  .process(fs.readFileSync('example.md'), (err, file) => {
    if (err) throw err;
    console.log({ file });
  });

And example.md looks like this:

# Heading one

## Heading two

### Heading three

#### Heading four

##### Heading five

###### Heading six

Normal paragraph

_italic text_

**bold text**

~~strike through text~~

[hyperlink](https://jackhanford.com)

> A block quote.

- bullet list item 1
- bullet list item 2

1. ordered list item 1
1. ordered list item 2

Results in the following Slate object

Reveal

[
  {
    "type": "heading_one",
    "children": [
      {
        "text": "Heading one"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "heading_two",
    "children": [
      {
        "text": "Heading two"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "heading_three",
    "children": [
      {
        "text": "Heading three"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "heading_four",
    "children": [
      {
        "text": "Heading four"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "heading_five",
    "children": [
      {
        "text": "Heading five"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "heading_six",
    "children": [
      {
        "text": "Heading six"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "paragraph",
    "children": [
      {
        "text": "Normal paragraph"
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "paragraph",
    "children": [
      {
        "text": "italic text",
        "italic": true
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "paragraph",
    "children": [
      {
        "text": "bold text",
        "italic": true
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "paragraph",
    "children": [
      {
        "text": "strike through text",
        "strikeThrough": true
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "paragraph",
    "children": [
      {
        "type": "link",
        "link": "https://jackhanford.com",
        "children": [
          {
            "text": "hyperkink"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "block_quote",
    "children": [
      {
        "type": "paragraph",
        "children": [
          {
            "text": "A block quote."
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "ul_list",
    "children": [
      {
        "type": "list_item",
        "children": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "children": [
              {
                "text": "bullet list item 1"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "list_item",
        "children": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "children": [
              {
                "text": "bullet list item 2"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  {
    "type": "ol_list",
    "children": [
      {
        "type": "list_item",
        "children": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "children": [
              {
                "text": "ordered list item 1"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "type": "list_item",
        "children": [
          {
            "type": "paragraph",
            "children": [
              {
                "text": "ordered list item 2"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
]

Miscellaneous

remark-slate makes some assumptions around unordered and ordered lists, the package pairs nicely with slate-edit-list

Local Development

Below is a list of commands you will probably find useful.

npm start or yarn start

Runs the project in development/watch mode. The project will be rebuilt upon changes.

Your library will be rebuilt if you make edits.

npm run build or yarn build

Bundles the package to the dist folder. The package is optimized and bundled with Rollup into multiple formats (CommonJS, UMD, and ES Module).

npm test or yarn test

Runs the test watcher (Jest) in an interactive mode. By default, runs tests related to files changed since the last commit.

License (MIT)

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