commonmark-helpers

Even the strongest sometimes need help.

Basically, with commonmark-helpers you can find desire elements in markdown document and process them in html or plaintext format.

Bunch of helpers for working with commonmark. Also, you can be interested, why I created this module, that’s why I wrote a post about reasons.

Very important to notice, that this package is very simple and doesn’t contain any smart and/or complicated logic, that’s why it’s tightly coupled with commonmark API for AST tree. Check it out first.

Install

npm install --save commonmark-helpers

Usage

var md = require('commonmark-helpers');
 
md.text(md.match('# title\n\ntext', md.isHeader)); // title
md.html(`*italic*`);        // <p><em>italic</em></p>\n
md.text('**`plaintext`**'); // plaintext
 
function up(node) {
  if (node.literal) {
    node.literal = node.literal.toUpperCase();
  }
};
 
md.text(md.matchProcess('# LOOK\n\nMA', up)); // LOOK\n\nMA

Look into tests for more examples.

API

html(input)

Return html.

input

Type: string / AST

text(input)

Return plain text.

input

Type: string / AST

ast(input)

Return AST tree for current text.

input

Type: string

match(input, matcher)

Return first AST-node matched my matcher in process of walking through AST-tree. Returns undefined if no one AST-node have been matched.
The most powerful method in this collection.

input

Type: string / AST

matcher

Type: function. Receive: AST-node, event

In most cases you need only AST-node to match on.

matchRemove(input, matcher)

The same as match() but remove first matched AST-node and return AST-tree without it.

input

Type: string / AST

matcher

Type: function. Receive: AST-node, event

In most cases you need only AST-node to match on.

matchRemoveList(input, matcher1, [matcher2, […, matcherN]])

The same as matchRemove() but resulting AST-tree after matcher1 passing to matcher2, result of this to matcher3 and so on. Return AST-tree without all the matched AST-nodes.

input

Type: string / AST

matcher1, matcher2, …, matcherN

Type: function. Receive: AST-node, event

In most cases you need only AST-node to match on.

matchProcess(input, processor)

Match and process AST-nodes, return modified AST-tree.

input

Type: string / AST

processor

Type: function. Receive: AST-node, event

In most cases you need only AST-node to match on and modify.

matchProcessList(input, processor1, [processor2, […, processorN]])

The same as matchProcess() but resulting AST-tree after processor1 passing to processor2, result of this to processor3 and so on. Return AST-tree is AST-tree with all applied processors.

input

Type: string / AST

processor1, processor2, …, processorN

Type: function. Receive: AST-node, event

In most cases you need only AST-node to match on and modify.

Bunch of shortcut helpers

const isType = (node, type) => node.type === type;
const isLevel  = (node, level) => node.level === level;
const isText = node => isType(node, 'Text');
const isEmph = node => isType(node, 'Emph');
const isCode = node => isType(node, 'Code');
const isHtml = node => isType(node, 'Html');
const isLink = node => isType(node, 'Link');
const isItem = node => isType(node, 'Item');
const isList = node => isType(node, 'List');
const isImage = node => isType(node, 'Image');
const isStrong = node => isType(node, 'Strong');
const isHeader = node => isType(node, 'Header');
const isDocument = node => isType(node, 'Document');
const isCodeBlock = node => isType(node, 'CodeBlock');
const isHtmlBlock = node => isType(node, 'HtmlBlock');
const isSoftbreak = node => isType(node, 'Softbreak');
const isHardbreak = node => isType(node, 'Hardbreak');
const isParagraph = node => isType(node, 'Paragraph');
const isBlockQuote = node => isType(node, 'BlockQuote');
const isHorizontalRule = node => isType(node, 'HorizontalRule');
 
const isRoot  = node => node.parent && isDocument(node.parent);
const isBreak = node => isHardbreak(node) || isSoftbreak(node);