advanced.md

Advanced Usage

Custom MDX components

mdx-deck includes default components for MDX, but to provide custom components to the MDXProvider, add a components object to the theme.

// example theme
import { theme } from 'mdx-deck/themes'
import Heading from './Heading'

export default {
  ...theme,
  components: {
    h1: Heading
  }
}

See the MDX docs for more or take a look at the default set of components as a reference.

Custom Provider component

A custom Provider component can be added to the theme to wrap the entire application. This is useful for adding custom context providers in React.

// example theme.js
import { theme } from 'mdx-deck/themes'
import Provider from './Provider'

export default {
  ...theme,
  font: 'Georgia, serif',
  Provider
}

A custom Provider component will receive the application's state as props, which can be used to show custom page numbers or add other elements to the UI.

Props

• index: (number) the current slide index
• length: (number) the length of the slides array
• mode: (string) the current mode (one of 'NORMAL', 'PRESENTER', or 'OVERVIEW')
• notes: (object) custom speaker notes for all slides
• step: (number) the current visible step in an Appear component

Combining multiple mdx files

Unlike the official @mdx-js/loader, the mdx-deck/loader exports an array of components instead of just one. Multiple MDX files can be combined into a single presentation if the filesize is getting difficult to manage.

First create a couple .mdx files like any other mdx-deck file, with --- to separate the different slides.

# one.mdx

---

This is the first file

# two.mdx

---

This is the second file

Next, create a .js file to import and combine the two .mdx files.

// deck.js
import one from './one.mdx'
import two from './two.mdx'

export default [
  ...one,
  ...two
]

Then, point the mdx-deck CLI comment in your package.json to the deck.js file.

"scripts": {
  "start": "mdx-deck deck.js"
}

Custom webpack config

Webpack configuration files named webpack.config.js will automatically be merged with the built-in configuration, using webpack-merge. To use a custom filename, pass the file path to the --webpack flag.

// webpack.config.js example
module.exports = {
  module: {
    rules: [
      { 
        test: /\.svg$/, 
        use: [
          { loader: 'babel-loader' },
          { loader: 'react-svg-loader' }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}

Careful: When overwriting the loader for mdx files, make sure to include the default loader from mdx-deck/loader.

Custom build setups

The core mdx-deck components can also be used in any React application, such as create-react-app or next.js.

See the React API docs for more.