marked VS markdown-it

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

markdown-it

Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed (by markdown-it)
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marked markdown-it
60 55
31,845 17,085
1.0% 1.7%
9.5 8.5
1 day ago about 1 month ago
JavaScript JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

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.

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 marked and markdown-it you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

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

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:

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

MDsveX - A markdown preprocessor for Svelte.

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

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

front-matter - Extract YAML front matter from strings

Jison - Bison in JavaScript.