discourse/app/assets/javascripts/pretty-text/engines/discourse-markdown/mentions.js

function addMention(buffer, matches, state) {
  let username = matches[1] || matches[2];
  let tag = "span";
  let className = "mention";

  let token = new state.Token("mention_open", tag, 1);
  token.attrs = [["class", className]];

  buffer.push(token);

  token = new state.Token("text", "", 0);
  token.content = "@" + username;

  buffer.push(token);

  token = new state.Token("mention_close", tag, -1);
  buffer.push(token);
}

export function setup(helper) {
  helper.registerOptions((opts, siteSettings) => {
    opts.features.mentions = !!siteSettings.enable_mentions;
    opts.features.unicodeUsernames = !!siteSettings.unicode_usernames;
  });

  helper.registerPlugin((md) => {
    const rule = {
      matcher: mentionRegex(md.options.discourse.features.unicodeUsernames),
      onMatch: addMention,
    };

    md.core.textPostProcess.ruler.push("mentions", rule);
  });
}

export function mentionRegex(unicodeUsernames) {
  if (unicodeUsernames) {
    try {
      // Create the regex from a string, because Babel doesn't understand
      // Unicode property escapes and completely mangles the regexp.
      const alnum = "\\p{Alphabetic}\\p{Mark}\\p{Decimal_Number}";
      return new RegExp(
        `@([${alnum}_][${alnum}._-]{0,58}[${alnum}])|@([${alnum}_])`,
        "u"
      );
    } catch (e) {
      if (!(e instanceof SyntaxError)) {
        throw e;
      }

      // Fallback for older browsers and MiniRacer.
      // Created with regexpu-core@4.5.4 by executing the following in nodejs:
      //
      // const rewritePattern = require('regexpu-core')
      // new RegExp(rewritePattern(/[\p{Alphabetic}\p{Mark}\p{Decimal_Number}]/u.source, 'u', { 'unicodePropertyEscape': true }))
      const alnum = 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        .source;
      return new RegExp(
        `@((?:_|${alnum})(?:[._-]|${alnum}){0,58}${alnum})|@(?:(_|${alnum}))`
      );
    }
  } else {
    return /@(\w[\w.-]{0,58}[^\W_])|@(\w)/;
  }
}