MDX Docs
npm init docs
📝 Create documentation with markdown- ⚛️ Import and use React components
- ⚙️ Component-based API
💻 Live code examples💅 Customizable themes- ▲ Built for Next.js
Getting Started
To create a new documentation site, run npm init docs
and follow the prompts.
Once the application has been generated, see the README.md
for more documentation.
To add MDX Docs to an existing Next.js app, see the Custom Setup docs.
Using MDX
MDX lets you mix markdown with inline JSX to render React components. Write markdown as you normally would and use ES import syntax to use custom components in your document.
import { Box } from 'grid-styled'
# Hello MDX!
<Box
p={3}
bg='tomato'>
This will render as a component
</Box>
Live Code
MDX Docs has built-in components to render JSX fenced code blocks as live previews with editable code, powered by react-live.
To make a code block render as an editable example, use the .jsx
language attribute (note the .
prefix).
Live code example:
```.jsx
<button>Beep</button>
```
Components Scope
To add components to scope for use in the live code examples,
pass a components
object to the Layout
component.
// example components
import React from 'react'
export default {
Box: props => (
<div
{...props}
style={{
padding: '32px',
backgroundColor: 'tomato'
}}
/>
)
}
// example _app.js
<Layout
{...this.props}
components={components}>
<Layout.Main>
<Component {...page} />
</Layout.Main>
</Layout>
The components
object can also include components to render the HTML elements in MDX.
Documentation
Prior Art
mdx-go, Compositor x0, mdx-deck, live-doc, Doctor Mark, docz