I'm trying to improve upon built-in MDX support in Remix, but I want to do it outside of Remix. I'm hoping someone can take this over as a separate library and serve the MDX community better than the built-in support does.
We do want to keep it as part of the build to keep things simple (can deploy to anywhere and not have to worry about loading the MDX at runtime). If you want to do it at runtime we've already got mdx-bundler for that. That's not what we're doing here.
Todos:
- live reload
- routes within the app/routes directory
- routes outside the app/routes directory
- all the route filename conventions (like
.,[, and]) - customizing the compilation of MDX (plugins etc).
- importing relative, absolute, and
~-prefixed paths. - custom components*
- add a
loaderexport that responds with the frontmatter
*We already have support for custom components, just make a variable binding in the MDX file called components and that'll work. But it would be more sensible to say people need to export something called components and use that instead. This will be a little tricky, but totally possible.
We're not going to be able to support importing MDX files inside JS files. That's out of scope.