[React] Create and import React components with Markdown using MDXC

In this lesson I demonstrate how to use the library MDXC to create and import React components with Markdown. MDXC converts markdown into JavaScript and supports JSX.

Additional Resources: https://github.com/jamesknelson/mdxc

 

Create a React app by using 'create-react-app':

// .babelrc

{
    "presets": ["babel-preset-react-app"]
}

Then, you can import a component from any Markdown file by prepending the filename with !babel-loader!mdx-loader!. For example:

/* eslint-disable import/no-webpack-loader-syntax */
import DocumentComponent from '!babel-loader!mdx-loader!../pages/index.md'

App.js

/* eslint-disable import/no-webpack-loader-syntax */

import React, { Component } from "react";
import logo from "./logo.svg";
import "./App.css";

import HelloWorld from "!babel-loader!mdx-loader!./HelloWorld.md";

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <header className="App-header">
          <img src={logo} className="App-logo" alt="logo" />
          <h1 className="App-title">Welcome to React</h1>
        </header>
        <p className="App-intro">
          To get started, edit <code>src/App.js</code> and save to reload.
        </p>
        <HelloWorld text="blah blah blah" />
      </div>
    );
  }
}

export default App;

import Bold from "./Bold"

import Italic from "!babel-loader!mdx-loader!./Italic.md"

prop text

# Heading 1

## Heading 2

<p>{text}</p>
<Bold>This text is Bold</Bold>
<Italic>This text is Italic</Italic>

Bold.js:

import React from "react";

export default function Bold({ children }) {
  return <b>{children}</b>;
}

Italic.md

prop children

{children}

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