React-markdown: The following format causes a link to be made: [[whatever]]

[d0lb33]

This is messing with a program of mine as the link is basically causing a redirect to my page (I am coding in electron.js and react.js so reloading a page to a '/' is very bad.) and showing an unnecessary link.

Edit: even just doing [whatever] creates a blank link.

[d0lb33]

Its noted here that:

brackets that aren’t part of links do not take precedence

[katsanva]

It's not a problem with react-markdown package, it's more on how markdown is parsed via remark-parse.

The fast workaround may be to create custom renderer for linkReference:

 <ReactMarkdown
      source={source}
      renderers={{
        linkReference: (reference) => {
          if (!reference.href) {
            return `[ ${reference.children[0]} ]`;
          }

          return <a href={reference.$ref}>{reference.children}</a>
        }
      }}/>

[lopezdp]

Im having the same issue. It works great locally but as soon as I deploy to aws-amplify there is an redirect causing it to not display the .md file....

Any insight?