Now You Can Do More with Laravel Mails Using Custom Markdown Extensions

We recently wanted to extend Markdown support for mails at Jacasa for our ongoing project.

That led me to open this PR to Laravel: laravel/framework#59051

It was merged by Taylor Otwell, and now we can register CommonMark extensions directly for mail rendering.

For example, you can enable StrikethroughExtension in your mail markdown config:

'markdown' => [
    'theme' => 'default',
    'paths' => [resource_path('views/vendor/mail')],
    'extensions' => [
        \League\CommonMark\Extension\Strikethrough\StrikethroughExtension::class,
    ],
],

Then use it in your mail Blade template like this:

<x-mail::message>
~~This line is struck through~~
</x-mail::message>

You can also create your own custom CommonMark extension and register it in the same extensions array:

'extensions' => [
    \App\Mail\Markdown\CustomExtension::class,
],

A small change, but a useful one: Laravel mails now give us a cleaner path to richer Markdown formatting.