react-markdown VS react-syntax-highlighter

Compare react-markdown vs react-syntax-highlighter and see what are their differences.

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react-markdown react-syntax-highlighter
48 14
12,167 3,840
1.8% 1.7%
7.2 1.5
29 days ago 2 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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react-markdown

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-markdown. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-27.

react-syntax-highlighter

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-syntax-highlighter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing react-markdown and react-syntax-highlighter you can also consider the following projects:

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

chakra-ui - ⚡️ Simple, Modular & Accessible UI Components for your React Applications

remark-gfm - remark plugin to support GFM (autolink literals, footnotes, strikethrough, tables, tasklists)

mantine - A fully featured React components library

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

Next.js - The React Framework

rehype-sanitize - plugin to sanitize HTML

micromark - small, safe, and great commonmark (optionally gfm) compliant markdown parser

storyblok-rich-text-react-renderer - A React renderer for Storyblok rich text content

remark-toc - plugin to generate a table of contents (TOC)

markdown-here - Google Chrome, Firefox, and Thunderbird extension that lets you write email in Markdown and render it before sending.