30-seconds-of-code/snippets/react/s/auto-link.md

title, type, language, tags, author, cover, dateModified

title	type	language	tags	author	cover	dateModified
Automatic text linking	snippet	react	components fragment regexp	chalarangelo	red-petals	2020-11-03T20:42:15+02:00

Renders a string as plaintext, with URLs converted to appropriate link elements.

• Use String.prototype.split() and String.prototype.match() with a regular expression to find URLs in a string.
• Return matched URLs rendered as <a> elements, dealing with missing protocol prefixes if necessary.
• Render the rest of the string as plaintext.

const AutoLink = ({ text }) => {
  const delimiter = /((?:https?:\/\/)?(?:(?:[a-z0-9]?(?:[a-z0-9\-]{1,61}[a-z0-9])?\.[^\.|\s])+[a-z\.]*[a-z]+|(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)(?:\.(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)){3})(?::\d{1,5})*[a-z0-9.,_\/~#&=;%+?\-\\(\\)]*)/gi;

  return (
    <>
      {text.split(delimiter).map(word => {
        const match = word.match(delimiter);
        if (match) {
          const url = match[0];
          return (
            <a href={url.startsWith('http') ? url : `http://${url}`}>{url}</a>
          );
        }
        return word;
      })}
    </>
  );
};

ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root')).render(
  <AutoLink text="foo bar baz http://example.org bar" />
);