2019 - what fork everybody has migrated to?

[vladp]

the author does not seem to be responding.
I see there are bunch of forks

is there a common fork that most are migrating too?

RN is now at 0.60, although this component does not seem to use any of the android/ios specific doe so it might survive significant changes that affect anything using native code (in RN 0.60)

[nielskrijger]

We were having problems with this library in newer RN versions and have been working around the issues as much as we can.

It appears alternative libraries are equally abandoned. I checked out some of the forks but most have just a few downloads on npm.

My guess is the original author no longer uses it actively in a project and has lost interest in maintaining it. Which is perfectly OK. We should be grateful for his contributions.

If anyone is willing to setup and actively maintain a fork (review, accept PR's and releases) it'd be a godsent. My own involvement in RN is too limited to make any promises.

[vladp]

@nielskrijger thnx for the follow up.
I will post here if I find something better to land onto.

I am using this component in RN as well on web with RNW. It works.
However with React Native rel 0.60 I am getting bunch of warnings around deprecated APIs so this will stop working for sure, in next major release of React (I guess 17.0).

Also there are aging dependencies, and a few functional bugs.

[mientjan]

Sorry, to you all for being a totaly off this project. Had too many responsibilities that where a bit more important that maintaining this project, sorry about that. I am going to try get this project op to date again and maybe add a extra maintainer to the project.

[alexfinnarn]

I am also interested in this project and where it is going. I see warnings about lifecycle deprecations and it would be nice to see an example where you import the MD syntax from an external file rather than in a template string. I think most people using this package would want to write the content in a MD file, and I know that is my intention.

But, this is still the best package I can find for rendering markdown in React Native so I've got high hopes. Any particular issues we can help you with working on @mientjan?

[iamacup]

I am using this project in production so have opened a fork which i intend to maintain for our production release.

react-native-markdown-display - https://github.com/iamacup/react-native-markdown-display

I have merged all of the pull requests that make sense. Happy for additional contributors / maintainers.