(Draft/Proof of concept) Render markdown to Dioxus nodes using ASTs

[danieldaquino]

Warning

This PR is not ready to merge as-is. It is still a draft/proof-of-concept.

This PR is a proof-of-concept which changes the rendering method for the library. Instead of rendering directly (and dangerously) to HTML, this PR renders Markdown to an abstract syntax tree (AST), and then renders those into Dioxus Nodes.

To accomplish that, the underlying markdown parser was switched to markdown-rs, which is a pure rust markdown parser that supports rendering to an AST (mdast), and also seems to be a stable library.

Demo

For demonstration purposes, here is a screenshot of the example program:

TODO

This is still mostly an experimental proof of concept I built while prototyping something else. I am submitting this PR to gather feedback on the overall approach, and inquire if there is desire/interest in this approach.

Here are things that are still to be done:

• Allow external views to customize parser options (e.g. to enable or disable certain markdown features such as tables, embedded html, etc).
• Allow external views to add custom handlers for each markdown AST node (e.g. for better styling control).
• General code cleanup, documentation, etc.
• Better error handling
• Fix inlining of checkboxes
• Better handling of some node types, or explicitly disallow support (e.g. MDX rendering currently just shows jsx code, perhaps there is a better way to handle this)

Please let me know if there interest in this approach, or any feedback in general. Thank you!

[dipanshuhappy]

Curious if this is still being worked on.

[danieldaquino]

Curious if this is still being worked on.

@dipanshuhappy, I am not currently working on this at the moment. The draft is somewhat functional though, please feel free to use it.

I will likely come back to this at some point, but I don't have any definite plans on it yet.

[dipanshuhappy]

Curious if this is still being worked on.

@dipanshuhappy, I am not currently working on this at the moment. The draft is somewhat functional though, please feel free to use it.

I will likely come back to this at some point, but I don't have any definite plans on it yet.

I see, maybe you can also use this as inspiration
https://github.com/rambip/rust-web-markdown