react-native-live-markdown Add `MarkdownText` component for preview

Work in progress. Closes #93.

Jan 16 '24 11:01 tomekzaw

Can't wait for this!

Will it also have web support?

Feb 08 '24 12:02 nandorojo

Yes, it will support web, in fact this is the easiest part here 😄

Feb 08 '24 12:02 tomekzaw

Can’t wait for it to get released 🙏

Feb 08 '24 12:02 nandorojo

This is great! 🚀 @tomekzaw are there any blockers for shipping this?

Feb 28 '24 11:02 pzatorski

If I were to guess, it would be Android and Web support, as the PR appears to only have ios code for now.

@tomekzaw should I try to add web support here to help push things forward?

Mar 03 '24 16:03 nandorojo

@pzatorski Thanks! First we need to address some issues related to MarkdownTextInput component, especially for web. Once completed, we will return to this draft PR.

@nandorojo Implementing web version of MarkdownText component is the cherry on top; I'm afraid that adding it now won't make things much faster for us. Anyway, if you'd like to give it a shot then feel free to go ahead, I won't stop you 😉

Mar 03 '24 21:03 tomekzaw

Hi, any progress with this?

Apr 06 '24 18:04 peter-olom

Can't wait!

Apr 13 '24 09:04 arasrezaei

When will be available?

Apr 21 '24 00:04 arasrezaei

When will be available?

Jul 29 '24 15:07 sergeymild

Any news ?

Aug 09 '24 08:08 SuperBesse

what are you guys using for rendering ?

Sep 07 '24 14:09 southkeys

Any news?

Oct 01 '24 04:10 csulit

what are you guys using for rendering ?

Oct 07 '24 13:10 Gautammer

Hi, any update on this?

Nov 04 '24 08:11 bbaoNg97

Hi, we'd like to first merge https://github.com/Expensify/react-native-live-markdown/pull/520 and then use an analogous approach in this PR.

Nov 04 '24 08:11 tomekzaw

any updates?

Dec 27 '24 11:12 arasrezaei

Is it performant enough to just use it as a disabled input component?

Jan 31 '25 14:01 markwitt1

@markwitt1 Yes, but there are some layout-related differences between Text and TextInput. If you're fine with those, you can just use a disabled TextInput solely for Markdown rendering.

Jan 31 '25 14:01 tomekzaw

how about in a list? any perf considerations?

Feb 09 '25 19:02 ice-cap0

@tomekzaw any updates on this PR / #520 ? Will be good to know to factor in which library we are using.

I guess using a disabled TextInput input could work, although we will also need it in a list, so I guess I would also want to know the answer to the above about performance in a list

May 10 '25 02:05 ericpoulinnz

@ericpoulinnz There are no updates on this PR. As for #520, I'm currently working on adapting it to RN 0.79.1+.

When it comes to using a disabled MarkdownTextInput inside a list, probably no one tried it before so we don't have any idea about its performance, but hopefully this should be quite straightforward for you to measure.

May 10 '25 07:05 tomekzaw

Thanks for the quick response @tomekzaw .

The performance was not too bad from my quick tests, but ran into the (obvious in hindsight) issue that links are not clickable in the TextInput mode (as far as I can see?)

So I will use another solution for the meantime but eagerly await this PR being merged in :)

May 10 '25 21:05 ericpoulinnz