mdx
Markdown for the component era (by mdx-js)
remark-gfm
remark plugin to support GFM (autolink literals, footnotes, strikethrough, tables, tasklists) (by remarkjs)
| mdx | remark-gfm | |
|---|---|---|
| 108 | 5 | |
| 18,520 | 931 | |
| 0.8% | 4.9% | |
| 7.8 | 6.6 | |
| 8 days ago | 4 months ago | |
| JavaScript | JavaScript | |
| MIT 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.
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.
mdx
Posts with mentions or reviews of mdx.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-19.
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Getting started with Next.js 15 and MDX
Official MDX site
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A Lightweight MDX CMS for Static Sites (No Git, No Complex Setup)
For anyone wondering, MDX is a mix of Markdown and JSX: https://mdxjs.com/.
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Storybook: The Workshop for Modern Frontends
Storybook simplifies working on those hard-to-reach spots in your codebase by providing an isolated workspace. It is a separate framework-agnostic app within your repository. You can do everything from developing components to documenting all different component states and showcasing them nicely using MDX with clickable demos and interactively changeable component arguments. You can also test your components within Storybook. Storybook's add-on API allows you to tailor it to your needs.
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Mdx – Execute Your Markdown Code Blocks, Now in Go
You might want to reconsider the name. MDX is already a well-known technology that combines markdown with JSX https://github.com/mdx-js/mdx/
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This Next.js blog template is awesome.
MDX - write JSX in markdown documents!
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Show HN: Tenno – Markdown and JavaScript = an Hybrid of Word and Excel
I think this would be great as an evolution of MDX (https://mdxjs.com/). MDX is already pretty popular for documentation and it plays well with React but unfortunately there is no framework that adds interactivity to MDX which will enable use cases like data applications.
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MDX with Translations 🐠
This is where MDX comes into play. It's essentially a hybrid of JSX / React and a well-specified dialect of Markdown. Essentially, this allows writing texts that are as simple as plain Markdown, as well as creating complex components as you might have done in full JSX.
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Show HN: Typeform alternative, turns Markdown to forms
MDX is great for this, you can intermix JS/TS, JSX, and Markdown
https://mdxjs.com/
You can write your components normally and pass them in to be available in MDX
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I wrote a new blog using Next.js App router
MDX — Write React code within Markdown.
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How to Enhance Content with Semantify
Semantify was made for content creators, marketers, and anyone looking to enhance their long-form written content. Currently only supporting MDX-based content, It automates the enrichment of MDX blog posts by adding AI-generated Q&A sections that summarize the content, and recommendations for semantically similar posts. This not only makes the content more accessible and engaging but also helps in establishing deeper connections between different posts, ultimately keeping the reader engaged for longer periods.
remark-gfm
Posts with mentions or reviews of remark-gfm.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-23.
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How to add markdown to a Next.js project
We chose to install the remark-gfm plugin. So that we could support the GitHub Flavored Markdown Spec. This allows for autolink literals, footnotes, strikethrough, tables, task lists.
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Gatsby 5 + MDX2: support for tables?
It seems that in the MDX2 (which is default in G5) direct support for some advanced formatting like tables was removed. Now it's done by remark-gfm [ https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-gfm ].
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Easy Comments
Here React Markdown, React Syntax Highlighter and the Remark GFM plugin is used. React Markdown helps with parsing markdown and Remark GFM adds support for GitHub Flavoured Markdown. React Syntax Highlighter does syntax highlighting for code snippets in a comment.
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How to Safely Render Markdown From a React Component
gfm is a remark plugin that adds support for strikethrough, table, tasklist and URLs
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Best way to store blog post content (React/MongoDB)?
I'm using React Markdown with remark-gfm, remark-math, react-mathjax, and MDX.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing mdx and remark-gfm you can also consider the following projects:
markdoc - A powerful, flexible, Markdown-based authoring framework.
react-markdown - Markdown component for React
pandoc - Universal markup converter
react-syntax-highlighter - syntax highlighting component for react with prismjs or highlightjs ast using inline styles
next-mdx-remote - Load MDX content from anywhere
remark-html - plugin to add support for serializing HTML