marked VS front-matter

Compare marked vs front-matter and see what are their differences.

marked

A markdown parser and compiler. Built for speed. (by markedjs)

front-matter

Extract YAML front matter from strings (by jxson)
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marked front-matter
60 4
31,702 663
1.2% -
9.5 0.0
4 days ago 7 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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marked

Posts with mentions or reviews of marked. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-14.

front-matter

Posts with mentions or reviews of front-matter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-11-16.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing marked and front-matter you can also consider the following projects:

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

markdown-it - Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed

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

snarkdown - :smirk_cat: A snarky 1kb Markdown parser written in JavaScript

docsify - 🃏 A magical documentation site generator.

DOMPurify - DOMPurify - a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMPurify works with a secure default, but offers a lot of configurability and hooks. Demo:

MDsveX - A markdown preprocessor for Svelte.

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

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

Jinja2 - A very fast and expressive template engine.

fast-xml-parser - Validate XML, Parse XML and Build XML rapidly without C/C++ based libraries and no callback.

Metalsmith - An extremely simple, pluggable static site generator for Node.js