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mdast		vfile
	Project
5	Mentions	1
992	Stars	443
2.5%	Growth	3.4%
5.2	Activity	5.7
10 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
	Language	JavaScript
-	License	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.

mdast

Posts with mentions or reviews of mdast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-04.

Remark plug-in, wrapping a span around a string
1 project | /r/nextjs | 15 Jun 2023

The actual splitting of the node into those 3 new nodes will depend on the type of AST node (see docs). If you look at other remark plugins, you might find examples or utils for doing that more easily.
Contentlayer with next/image
11 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023

contentlayer uses remark to parse the markdown in an mdast. We can now use remark plugins to modify the mdast. Then rehype comes into play and converts the mdast into a hast. rehype plugins can now modify the hast. Finally the hast is converted into react components.
Converting and customizing Markdown files to HTML with Unified, remark & rehype
12 projects | dev.to | 11 Sep 2022

remark parses and process the Markdown text, and converts it into an abstract syntax tree (AST). This tree is composed of unist nodes, which follow the Markdown Abstract Syntax Tree (mdast) structure.
Mdast: Markdown Abstract Syntax Tree
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Apr 2022
How to create a custom lint rule for Markdown and MDX using remark and ESLint
14 projects | dev.to | 7 Apr 2021

Because we will be inspecting a mdast, which is a markdown abstract syntax tree built upon unist, we can take advantage of the many existing unist utilities to inspect our tree's nodes.

vfile

Posts with mentions or reviews of vfile. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-07.