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linkify-issues
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Linkify GitHub issue references
npm install linkify-issues
import linkifyIssues from 'linkify-issues';
linkifyIssues('Fixes #143 and avajs/ava#1023', {
user: 'sindresorhus',
repository: 'dofle',
attributes: {
class: 'unicorn',
multiple: ['a', 'b'],
number: 1,
exclude: false,
include: true
}
});
//=> 'Fixes <a href="https://github.com/sindresorhus/dofle/issues/143" class="unicorn" multiple="a b" number="1" include>#143</a> and <a href="https://github.com/avajs/ava/issues/1023" class="unicorn" multiple="a b" number="1" include>avajs/ava#1023</a>'
const fragment = linkifyUrls('See #143', {
user: 'sindresorhus',
repository: 'dofle',
type: 'dom',
attributes: {
class: 'unicorn',
}
});
document.body.appendChild(fragment);
Type: string
A string with issue references to linkify.
Type: object
Required
Type: string
GitHub user.
Required
Type: string
GitHub repository.
Type: object
HTML attributes to add to the link.
Type: string
Default: 'https://github.com'
The base URL.
Type: string
Values: 'string' | 'dom'
Default: 'string'
The format of the generated content.
'string' will return it as a flat string like 'See <a href="https://github.com/sindresorhus/dofle/issue/143">#143</a>'.
'dom' will return it as a DocumentFragment ready to be appended in a DOM safely, like DocumentFragment(TextNode('See '), HTMLAnchorElement('#143')). This type only works in the browser.
FAQs
Linkify GitHub issue references
The npm package linkify-issues receives a total of 487 weekly downloads. As such, linkify-issues popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that linkify-issues demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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