Use remark-external-links as dependency

[cedricdelpoux]

Hello, I'm the creator of remark-external-links

Why not require the official plugin as a dependency and do not rewrite it ? There are some officials plugins using this feature: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/blob/master/packages/gatsby-remark-custom-blocks/src/index.js

[zslabs]

Opened up https://github.com/JLongley/gatsby-remark-external-links/pull/6 to resolve this.

[zslabs]

@JLongley Think we could tag 0.0.5 to release this to npm?

[karlhorky]

Interesting to see that #6 was never published to npm - wonder if that's why it still works.

remark-external-links by itself has issues with gatsby-plugin-mdx, as I've documented here: https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/issues/22719.

Maybe once #6 is published, it will break this too 🤔

cc @cedricdelpoux

[zslabs]

@karlhorky FWIW, I switched to MDX recently and wrote my own logic to handle both internal and external links https://github.com/zslabs/zslabs.com/blob/master/src/components/mdxShortcodes.js#L17

[karlhorky]

@zslabs Nice, having the full power of JSX is great, for sure :)

Still would be cool to have a hands-off plugin for those who don't want to roll their own though.

[karlhorky]

I guess this library isn't required at all anymore, you can just use remark-external-links by itself now:

https://github.com/JLongley/gatsby-remark-external-links/issues/22