React-gist-embed

A simple react component to dynamically render a gist embed

Introduction

Gists are difficult to render dynamically because they use document.write.

This component offers a simple workaround, allowing a React app to render a gist in an iframe and then adjust the height of the iframe to reflect the height of the child gist itself.

Getting started

Install via npm:

npm install --save react-gist-embed

Then simply require and pass a gistId.

var GistEmbed = require('react-gist-embed');

<GistEmbed gistId='a759fd68208808020598'/>