gray-matter VS TypeScript

Compare gray-matter vs TypeScript and see what are their differences.

gray-matter

Smarter YAML front matter parser, used by metalsmith, Gatsby, Netlify, Assemble, mapbox-gl, phenomic, vuejs vitepress, TinaCMS, Shopify Polaris, Ant Design, Astro, hashicorp, garden, slidev, saber, sourcegraph, and many others. Simple to use, and battle tested. Parses YAML by default but can also parse JSON Front Matter, Coffee Front Matter, TOML Front Matter, and has support for custom parsers. Please follow gray-matter's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert (by jonschlinkert)

TypeScript

TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output. (by microsoft)
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gray-matter TypeScript
17 1294
3,728 97,451
- 1.0%
3.3 9.9
4 months ago 1 day ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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gray-matter

Posts with mentions or reviews of gray-matter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-05.
  • Building a flat-file CMS with Angular
    3 projects | dev.to | 5 Mar 2024
    Writing in markdown is super convenient, and supported by just about any text editor. To convert these .md files to browser-ready HTML, I wrote a simple little Node.js script using two great npm packages called gray-matter and showdown.
  • Eleventy vs. Next.js for static site generation
    4 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2023
    Next, install gray-matter to extract metadata from the front matter of markdown files, and marked to convert the markdown files to HTML:
  • Exploring the code behind Docusaurus
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Oct 2023
    It turns out that Docusaurus uses an open source JavaScript parser called gray-matter to parse the front matter from markdown files! After installing gray-matter using npm and them importing it into the markdownUtils.ts file, all it takes is calling the matter method and passing the markdown file contents to get returned an Object with data and content (the data being the front matter and the content being the rest of the markdown file contents).
  • Create an Interactive Table of Contents for a Next.js Blog with Remark
    5 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2023
    Although we are building a custom table of contents, we won't have to write everything from scratch. To separate the Markdown/MDX content from the front matter, we'll use the Gray-matter package. It is optional in case you don't have front matter in your Markdown files. To process the Markdown itself, we'll use the Remark package. We'll also need the unist-util-visit package for traversing node trees and mdast-util-to-string for getting the text content of a node.
  • Create your own blog with MDX and NextJS
    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Dec 2022
    In this article we walk you through the process of creating a simple blog app using the popular React framework NextJS, gray-matter and next-mdx-remote.
  • NextJS 13 Blog Starter
    6 projects | dev.to | 14 Nov 2022
    In order to get post information (such as author, title, date, etc.) from our HTML without having them be apart of our rendered post we need a way to parse YAML front matter, this is where gray-matter comes in hand.
  • Create a Markdown Editor with Rust and React
    12 projects | dev.to | 13 Oct 2022
    It’s actually not part of the CommonMark spec, so you’ll often need a 3rd party library to parse it out on top of your Markdown parser. In JavaScript we use gray-matter which converts frontmatter into a JS object we can more easily use.
  • Turn a Markdown blog to a simple SSG
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Jul 2022
    Over the past few weeks, I mostly wrote on how to template a Node.js application with EJS using Express. Then, I wrote an article showing how to create a Markdown blog in Node.js using EJS, Express, gray-matter and markdown-it. Today, I'll combine those tutorials to turn the Markdown blog, from the last tutorial, into a simple SSG.
  • Markdown blog with EJS
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Jul 2022
    gray-matter, to parse the front matter from the Markdown files
  • Create Blog Post Bookmarks in Next.js
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 Jun 2022
    Luckily for us, there is a fantastic NPM package that can help us with this. Let’s install it.

TypeScript

Posts with mentions or reviews of TypeScript. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-28.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gray-matter and TypeScript you can also consider the following projects:

front-matter - Extract YAML front matter from strings

zod - TypeScript-first schema validation with static type inference

Flutter - Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond

Tailwind CSS - A utility-first CSS framework for rapid UI development.

react-markdown - Markdown component for React

remark - markdown processor powered by plugins part of the @unifiedjs collective

zx - A tool for writing better scripts

esbuild - An extremely fast bundler for the web

Yup - Dead simple Object schema validation

Quasar Framework - Quasar Framework - Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces in record time

rescript-compiler - The compiler for ReScript.

linaria - Zero-runtime CSS in JS library