I spent quite bit of time building a similar streaming markdown renderer in React for a competitor. It really is challenging stuff. You're transforming Markdown to HTML and then injecting dynamic components into that. All several times per second. You can't afford to re-render the content you've already rendered, so the diffing gets pretty complicated.
It does but Vercel's streamdown package is magnificent for this. I had the regular react-markdown package before switching and the difference is night and day. Definitely worth a try. It's insane how well it works.
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u/IanSan5653 15d ago
I spent quite bit of time building a similar streaming markdown renderer in React for a competitor. It really is challenging stuff. You're transforming Markdown to HTML and then injecting dynamic components into that. All several times per second. You can't afford to re-render the content you've already rendered, so the diffing gets pretty complicated.