MyST (Markedly Structured Text) is designed to create publication-quality documents written entirely in Markdown. The main use case driving the development and design of MyST is JupyterBook, which helps you create educational online textbooks and tutorials with Jupyter Notebooks and narrative content written in MyST. myst-parser is a javascript parser for MyST markdown that brings these capabilities into a web-native environment.
- Provide a Javascript implementation of MyST markdown
- Parse MyST into a standardized AST, based on mdast.
- Serialize
mdastinto a default HTML for all known roles and directives - Expose an opinionated set of
markdown-itplugins, to be used in ecosystems that requiremarkdown-it(e.g. vscode) - Expose extension points in MyST for new roles/directives
- Provide functionality for cross-referencing that is usually completed by Sphinx (e.g. in the Python implementation)
npm install myst-parserIn a node environment:
import { mystParser } from 'myst-parser';
import { State, transform, mystToHast, formatHtml } from 'myst-to-html';
import rehypeStringify from 'rehype-stringify';
import { unified } from 'unified';
const pipe = unified()
.use(mystParser)
.use(transform, new State())
.use(mystToHast)
.use(formatHtml)
.use(rehypeStringify);
const file = pipe.processSync(':::{important}\nHello to the world!\n:::');
console.log(file.value);
>> <aside class="admonition important"><p class="admonition-title">Important</p><p>Hello to the world!</p></aside>In a browser:
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://unpkg.com/myst-parser"></script>
</head>
<body onload="init();">
<div id="output"></div>
<script>
function init() {
const pipe = unified()
.use(mystParser)
.use(transform, new State())
.use(mystToHast)
.use(formatHtml)
.use(rehypeStringify);
const result = pipe.runSync('# Hello to the world!');
const html = pipe.stringify(result);
document.getElementById('output').innerHTML = html;
}
</script>
</body>
</html>- CommonMark
- Admonitions
- Figures
- Images
- Math
- role
- directive (equations)
- dollar math
- amsmath
- Tables
- GFM
- List Tables
- References
- ref
- numref
- eq
- links
- Including numbering (single document)
- Code Directives
- Code
- Code blocks
- Code cell
- Blocks
- Comments
- Targets
- HTML:
subsupabbr
- Definition List
- Footnotes
Not yet complete:
- div
- proof
- margin
- sidebar
- colon fence
- Citations
- Bibliography
- Epigraph
- Glosary
- Terms
- Tabs
- Panels
- CSV Tables
- Multi-document
For installing the package locally, you will need node and npm, both can use a global install on your system.
Once you have npm installed globally, navigate into this project folder and install the dependencies:
cd myst-parser
npm install
npm run start # Start a development server to play with the library! 🚀The scripts for building, testing, and serving the project are in the package.json, the main ones to use are
npm run test, npm run build, and npm run start.
Builds the library, including compiling the typescript and bundling/minification to create myst.min.js which can be used in the browser directly.
This outputs to the dist folder, and also includes all type definitions (*.d.ts) in the types folder.
Run the tests, these are mostly based on the fixtures folder. You can also use npm run test:watch to run on any file changes.
Starts a server for manually testing and playing with myst-parser, this uses a in-memory bundle of what would go in the dist folder.
Note that this does not actually build the library!