nuxt-content-body-html

Adds a property to each @nuxt/content document containing the raw HTML body, rendered from markdown.

Install

# npm
$ npm install nuxt-content-body-html

# Yarn
$ yarn add nuxt-content-body-html

Sometimes you need the raw HTML code of @nuxt/content documents for processing. A frequent use case is to generate an RSS feed and to add the HTML as content:encoded. The module will use the default remark and rehype plugins. You can also add additional plugins.

Nuxt 3

Add the module to your nuxt.config.js file:

export default {
  modules: [
    '@nuxt/content',
    'nuxt-content-body-html',
  },
}

To generate the HTML, you have two options: 1. Add fields to the module config and 2. use the useNuxtContentBodyHtml composable. If you just need a simple HTML version of your markdown content, the module config is fine. But if you want to add extra remark or rehype plugins involving functions, you will need to use the composable because Nuxt won't be able to serialize it into the runtime config.

Module config

export default {
  modules: [
    '@nuxt/content',
    ['nuxt-content-body-html', {
      fields: {
        bodyHtml: {},
      },
    }],
  },
}

This is the simplest way of generating the bodyHtml field into the file objects.

Composable

Add a Nitro plugin to server/plugins. We will hook into content:file:beforeParse and add our HTML code by calling the composable. Unfortunately, there is currently an open issue in @nuxt/content that does not persist variables added in content:file:beforeParse. So we will have to store them and restore them in content:file:afterParse. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.

// server/plugins/body-html.js

import { defineNitroPlugin, useNuxtContentBodyHtml } from '#imports'

const nuxtContentBodyHtml = useNuxtContentBodyHtml()

export default defineNitroPlugin(nitroApp => {
  const bodyHtmls = {}

  nitroApp.hooks.hook('content:file:beforeParse', async file =>
    bodyHtmls[file._id] = await nuxtContentBodyHtml.generate(file)
  )
  nitroApp.hooks.hook('content:file:afterParse', file => (file.bodyHtml = bodyHtmls[file._id]))
})

Adding Remark and Rehype plugins

In some cases you will want to add additional plugins to customize the HTML. E.g. in an RSS feed you want to have absolute URLs. You can add plugins to the field configs and the composable like so:

export default {
  modules: [
    '@nuxt/content',
    ['nuxt-content-body-html', {
      fields: {
        bodyHtml: {
          remarkPlugins: {
            'remark-foo': {},
          },
          rehypePlugins: {
            'rehype-foo: {},
          },
        },
      },
    }],
  },
}

await useNuxtContentBodyHtml.generate(file, {
  remarkPlugins: {
    'remark-foo': {},
  },
  rehypePlugins: {
    'rehype-foo: {},
  },
})

Enabling the highlighter

You can easily enable syntax highlighting like so:

export default {
  modules: [
    '@nuxt/content',
    ['nuxt-content-body-html', {
      fields: {
        bodyHtml: { highlight: true },
      },
    }],
  },
}

await useNuxtContentBodyHtml.generate(file, { highlight: true })

Nuxt 2 and @nuxt/content@^1

nuxt-content-body-html works similarly for Nuxt 2 with some minor differences. Firstly, you need to add the module to your nuxt.config.js file before @nuxt/content:

export default {
  modules: [
    'nuxt-content-body-html',
    '@nuxt/content',
  },
}

Then, the HTML code will be generated in module context and not in Nitro context, so you can completely configure your fields via the module config and you do not need a composable.

For convenience, if you do not configure any field, a bodyHtml field will be configured by default. So the above config will already generate a field.

To add fields or have a different name for the field, you can add fields like so:

export default {
  modules: [
    ['nuxt-content-body-html', {
      fooHtml: {},
    }],
    '@nuxt/content',
  ],
}

Plugins

You can also add plugins to the config. Note that the plugins are arrays:

export default {
  modules: [
    ['nuxt-content-body-html', {
      fooHtml: {
        remarkPlugins: [
          'plugin1',
          ['plugin2', { /* options */ }],
        ],
        rehypePlugins: [
          'plugin1',
          ['plugin2', { /* options */ }],
        ],
      },
    }],
    '@nuxt/content',
  ],
}

Overriding or disabling the highlighter

In @nuxt/content^1 the highlighter is enabled by default. You can explicitly override or disable the highlighter by setting it in the config:

export default {
  modules: [
    ['nuxt-content-body-html', {
      // Pass a custom highlighter
      highlighter: customHighlighter,

      // Disable the highlighter by setting a noop function
      highlighter: code => `<pre><code class="language-js">${code}</code></pre>`,
    }],
    '@nuxt/content',
  ],
}

Usage for RSS feeds

You can customize the module so that you can use the resulting HTML code for RSS feeds.

Firstly, RSS feeds require URLs to be absolute. You can use rehype-urls to make relative URLs absolute. At the time of writing, the npm version is not compatible with @nuxt/content@^2, you will need to fix the issue in this PR.

// nuxt.config.js

// Set process.env.BASE_URL to the domain to prepend

export default {
  runtimeConfig: {
    baseUrl: process.env.BASE_URL,
  },
  modules: [
    '@nuxt/content',
    'nuxt-content-body-html',
  ],
}

// server/plugins/body-html.js

import { defineNitroPlugin, useNuxtContentBodyHtml, useRuntimeConfig } from '#imports'

const { baseUrl } = useRuntimeConfig()
const nuxtContentBodyHtml = useNuxtContentBodyHtml()

export default defineNitroPlugin(nitroApp => {
  const bodyHtmls = {}

  nitroApp.hooks.hook('content:file:beforeParse', async file =>
    bodyHtmls[file._id] = await nuxtContentBodyHtml.generate(file, {
      rehypePlugins: {
        'rehype-urls', { transform: url => (url.host ? url : new URL(url.href, baseUrl)) },
      },
    })
  )
  nitroApp.hooks.hook('content:file:afterParse', file => (file.bodyHtml = bodyHtmls[file._id]))
})

Contribute

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See also

• nuxt-content-git: Adds a property to each @nuxt/content document containing the raw HTML body, rendered from markdown.
• nuxt-mail: Adds email sending capability to a Nuxt.js app. Adds a server route, an injected variable, and uses nodemailer to send emails.
• nuxt-route-meta: Adds Nuxt page data to route meta at build time.
• nuxt-modernizr: Adds a Modernizr build to your Nuxt.js app.
• nuxt-mermaid-string: Embed a Mermaid diagram in a Nuxt.js app by providing its diagram string.

License

MIT License © Sebastian Landwehr