# markdown-it-async

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Enhance [`markdown-it`](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it) to support **async** highlight function.

## Usage

```ts
import MarkdownItAsync from 'markdown-it-async'

const md = MarkdownItAsync({
  async highlight(code, lang) {
    const { codeToHtml } = await import('shiki')
    return await codeToHtml(code, { lang, theme: 'vitesse-dark' })
  }
})

const html = await md.renderAsync(markdown)
```

## How it works?

This package is a thin wrapper around `markdown-it` to support async highlight function. It uses [the approch suggested in `markdown-it`'s docs](https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it/blob/master/docs/development.md#i-need-async-rule-how-to-do-it), by putting placeholders in sync mode and then replace them with async results.

The goal is to make it easy to use and absorb the "hack" into the library itself.

## Sponsors

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## License

[MIT](./LICENSE) License © 2024-PRESENT [Anthony Fu](https://github.com/antfu)

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