kramdown VS markdown-it

Compare kramdown vs markdown-it and see what are their differences.

kramdown

kramdown is a fast, pure Ruby Markdown superset converter, using a strict syntax definition and supporting several common extensions. (by gettalong)

markdown-it

Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed (by markdown-it)
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kramdown markdown-it
4 55
1,696 17,174
- 2.2%
0.0 8.5
9 months ago about 1 month ago
Ruby JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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kramdown

Posts with mentions or reviews of kramdown. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-13.

markdown-it

Posts with mentions or reviews of markdown-it. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-14.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing kramdown and markdown-it you can also consider the following projects:

Redcarpet - The safe Markdown parser, reloaded.

marked - A markdown parser and compiler. Built for speed.

pandoc - Universal markup converter

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

word-to-markdown - A ruby gem to liberate content from Microsoft Word documents

PEG.js - PEG.js: Parser generator for JavaScript

Maruku - A pure-Ruby Markdown-superset interpreter (Official Repo).

js-yaml - JavaScript YAML parser and dumper. Very fast.

CommonMarker - Ruby wrapper for the comrak (CommonMark parser) Rust crate

nearley - 📜🔜🌲 Simple, fast, powerful parser toolkit for JavaScript.

Tocer - A command line interface for generating Markdown table of contents.

docx-to-pdf-on-AWS-Lambda - Microsoft Word doc/docx to PDF conversion on AWS Lambda using Node.js