A Vite plugin to simplify the importing of markdown files, with support for front-matter attributes. Uses front-matter under the hood for parsing markdown files.

This plugin does not transform the markdown content into JSX/React Elements, it simply returns a string of the markdown's body and an object with your front-matter attributes. You can use the markdown body string in a markdown renderer/formatter of your choice, like react-markdown.

# npm
npm install -D vite-plugin-markdown-import
# pnpm
pnpm add -D vite-plugin-markdown-import
# yarn
yarn add -D vite-plugin-markdown-import

File: vite.config.ts

import MarkdownPlugin from '@goodforyou/vite-plugin-markdown-import';
export default defineConfig({
	// other config...
	plugins: [
		// other plugins...
		MarkdownPlugin(),
	],
});

Files can then be imported in your vite application files, like so:

File: example.tsx

// you can use other markdown rendering libraries, this is an example
import Markdown from 'react-markdown';
import TestMarkdown from './test-markdown.md';
export default function TestComponent() {
	return (
		<div>
			<Markdown>{TestMarkdown.body}</Markdown>
		</div>
	);
}

If you are using typescript, at this point markdown files would be imported as type any. To fix that, add the following to your vite-env.d.ts file:

File: src/vite-env.d.ts

// other references...
/// <reference types="@goodforyou/vite-plugin-markdown-import/client" />

At this point now, imported files will have the type MarkdownType which specifies an object of the following:

export interface MarkdownType {
	attributes: Record<string, unknown>;
	body: string;
}

If you want to type your attributes further, you can do so via extending MarkdownType like so:

import type { MarkdownType } from '@goodforyou/vite-plugin-markdown-import/client';
export interface ExtendedMarkdownType extends MarkdownType {
	attributes: {
		title: string;
		description: string;
	};
}

You can then reference or declare a module in your vite-env.d.ts that will type your given markdown file:

declare module 'path/to/folder/*.md' {
	const value: ExtendedMarkdownType;
	export default value;
}

Nick Cunningham from Good For You Web Services