Autogenerate ids for headings in markdown content

Signed-off-by: John Philip <johnphilip283@gmail.com>

.changeset/lazy-snakes-film.md

@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/core-components': minor
+---
+
+Adds code to autogenerate ids for headers parsed through the MarkdownContent component.

packages/core-components/src/components/MarkdownContent/MarkdownContent.test.tsx

@@ -100,4 +100,34 @@ describe('<MarkdownContent />', () => {
       'https://example.com/blog/assets/6/header.png',
     );
   });
+
+  it('render MarkdownContent component with headings given proper ids', async () => {
+    const rendered = await renderWithEffects(
+      wrapInTestApp(
+        <MarkdownContent
+          content={
+            '# Lorem ipsum\n' +
+            '## bing bong\n' +
+            '### The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test'
+          }
+        />,
+      ),
+    );
+
+    expect(rendered.getByText('Lorem ipsum').getAttribute('id')).toEqual(
+      'lorem-ipsum',
+    );
+    expect(rendered.getByText('bing bong').getAttribute('id')).toEqual(
+      'bing-bong',
+    );
+    expect(
+      rendered
+        .getByText(
+          'The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test',
+        )
+        .getAttribute('id'),
+    ).toEqual(
+      'the-fitnessgram-pacer-test-is-a-multistage-aerobic-capacity-test',
+    );
+  });
 });

packages/core-components/src/components/MarkdownContent/MarkdownContent.tsx

@@ -73,6 +73,19 @@ type Props = {
   className?: string;
 };
 
+const flatten = (text, child) => {
+  return typeof child === 'string'
+    ? text + child
+    : React.Children.toArray(child.props.children).reduce(flatten, text);
+};
+
+const headingRenderer = ({ level, children }) => {
+  const childrenArray = React.Children.toArray(children);
+  const text = childrenArray.reduce(flatten, '');
+  const slug = text.toLocaleLowerCase('en-US').replace(/\W/g, '-');
+  return React.createElement(`h${level}`, { id: slug }, children);
+};
+
 const components: Options['components'] = {
   code: ({ inline, className, children, ...props }) => {
     const text = String(children).replace(/\n+$/, '');
@@ -85,6 +98,12 @@ const components: Options['components'] = {
       </code>
     );
   },
+  h1: headingRenderer,
+  h2: headingRenderer,
+  h3: headingRenderer,
+  h4: headingRenderer,
+  h5: headingRenderer,
+  h6: headingRenderer,
 };
 
 /**