@yankeeinlondon/link-builder

Link Builder for vite-plugin-md

This repo is hosted externally but provided as a "built-in" part of the vite-plugin-md plugin.

Provides a power-user features for the links in your vite-plugin-md documents.

Usage

// vite.config.js
import Markdown from 'vite-plugin-md'
import { link } from '@yankeeinlondon/link-builder'

export default defineConfig({
  // ...
  plugins: [
    Markdown({ builders: [link()] }),
  ],
})

Default Behavior

With no configuration passed into link() you will get the following behavior:

• Class Attribution
  • internal vs. external links
  • any reference to a http (versus https:) resource will be given the class "insecure"
  • if a non-HTTP protocol is specified (e.g., mailto:, file:, etc.)
  • if a document has an href directly to an image, document, code the content type will be be given a class
  • anchor links (aka, links to the same page) will also get a class
• VueJS Router
  • any internal link will be converted from <a href="xyz"> link to a <router-link to="xyz" > and the relative paths needed to produce a valid route will be calculated for you
• Link Cleanup
  • in vs-code (and various other editors), linking between two Markdown files is supported with autocomplete but the completed link maps directly to the markdown FILE (aka, has .md extension)
  • this is desireable for file based linking but needs to be tidied up when converting to HTTP based navigation
  • The default configuration will:
    • remove index.md fully just leaving the "directory" or "route"
    • remove .md from all other links

Configuration

The configuration is all done with a single dictionary configuration object passed into link( config ) and is fully typed (LinkOptions). Rather than documenting this twice, just refer to the typed documentation in the config object.