remark VS gray-matter

Compare remark vs gray-matter and see what are their differences.

remark

markdown processor powered by plugins part of the @unifiedjs collective (by remarkjs)

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 (by jonschlinkert)
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remark gray-matter
42 17
7,128 3,728
1.7% -
6.9 3.3
13 days ago 4 months ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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remark

Posts with mentions or reviews of remark. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
  • Which software do you use to create presentations using Vim that is superior to existing ones?
    10 projects | /r/neovim | 11 Dec 2023
    I also didn't try this tool but it's called RemarkJS which is named too similar to revealjs.
  • How We Started Managing BSA Delivery Processes on GitHub
    6 projects | dev.to | 26 Nov 2023
    remark. Primarily, this is a linter for Markdown. Additionally, thanks to its numerous plugins, it allows us to perform additional checks for grammatical mistakes within the content itself. Before using this linter, our content was not scrutinized to this extent.
  • I built an Markdown editor using Next.js and TailwindCss 🔥
    5 projects | dev.to | 14 Nov 2023
    Add Remark and Rehype plugins
    5 projects | dev.to | 14 Nov 2023
    Rehype and Remark are plugins used to transform and manipulate the HTML and Markdown content of a website, helping to enhance its functionality and appearance.
  • how to retain position of markdown element in remark.js
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Sep 2023
    I usually combine remark-parse, remark-rehype and rehype-react to transform markdown into react components. The configuration of the processor is like:
  • Building an Astro Blog with View Transitions
    5 projects | dev.to | 24 Aug 2023
    Astro content collection are as simple as a folder containing a bunch of Markdown (or Markdoc or MDX) files if that's the only thing you need, but they can also do relationship matching between different collections, frontmatter validation using zod and you can also customize how the markdown is parsed and translated to html using rehype and remark and their plugin ecosystem.
  • Simple markdown plugin to open external links in a new tab
    2 projects | dev.to | 4 Jun 2023
    On my personal blog I have few external links in my posts. I wanted to keep people on my website by applying target="_blank" on external (those what don't reference to my site) links. This is a common and good practice too. I write my content in Markdown, so I decided to write a remark plugin. It is simple to implement, just few lines of code.
  • Create an Interactive Table of Contents for a Next.js Blog with Remark
    5 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2023
    Although we are building a custom table of contents, we won't have to write everything from scratch. To separate the Markdown/MDX content from the front matter, we'll use the Gray-matter package. It is optional in case you don't have front matter in your Markdown files. To process the Markdown itself, we'll use the Remark package. We'll also need the unist-util-visit package for traversing node trees and mdast-util-to-string for getting the text content of a node.
  • How to integrate your blog with dev.to API Next.js 13
    5 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2023
    That's all to render the post as HTML, there are lots of things you can do to customize the results, you can check the remark plugins and rehype plugins to pass as props to and you can also take a look at some other bloggers if you're looking for different styles for example Lee Robinson's or if you liked mine.
  • 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.

gray-matter

Posts with mentions or reviews of gray-matter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-05.
  • Building a flat-file CMS with Angular
    3 projects | dev.to | 5 Mar 2024
    Writing in markdown is super convenient, and supported by just about any text editor. To convert these .md files to browser-ready HTML, I wrote a simple little Node.js script using two great npm packages called gray-matter and showdown.
  • Eleventy vs. Next.js for static site generation
    4 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2023
    Next, install gray-matter to extract metadata from the front matter of markdown files, and marked to convert the markdown files to HTML:
  • Exploring the code behind Docusaurus
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Oct 2023
    It turns out that Docusaurus uses an open source JavaScript parser called gray-matter to parse the front matter from markdown files! After installing gray-matter using npm and them importing it into the markdownUtils.ts file, all it takes is calling the matter method and passing the markdown file contents to get returned an Object with data and content (the data being the front matter and the content being the rest of the markdown file contents).
  • Create an Interactive Table of Contents for a Next.js Blog with Remark
    5 projects | dev.to | 21 Apr 2023
    Although we are building a custom table of contents, we won't have to write everything from scratch. To separate the Markdown/MDX content from the front matter, we'll use the Gray-matter package. It is optional in case you don't have front matter in your Markdown files. To process the Markdown itself, we'll use the Remark package. We'll also need the unist-util-visit package for traversing node trees and mdast-util-to-string for getting the text content of a node.
  • Create your own blog with MDX and NextJS
    2 projects | dev.to | 5 Dec 2022
    In this article we walk you through the process of creating a simple blog app using the popular React framework NextJS, gray-matter and next-mdx-remote.
  • NextJS 13 Blog Starter
    6 projects | dev.to | 14 Nov 2022
    In order to get post information (such as author, title, date, etc.) from our HTML without having them be apart of our rendered post we need a way to parse YAML front matter, this is where gray-matter comes in hand.
  • Create a Markdown Editor with Rust and React
    12 projects | dev.to | 13 Oct 2022
    It’s actually not part of the CommonMark spec, so you’ll often need a 3rd party library to parse it out on top of your Markdown parser. In JavaScript we use gray-matter which converts frontmatter into a JS object we can more easily use.
  • Turn a Markdown blog to a simple SSG
    4 projects | dev.to | 30 Jul 2022
    Over the past few weeks, I mostly wrote on how to template a Node.js application with EJS using Express. Then, I wrote an article showing how to create a Markdown blog in Node.js using EJS, Express, gray-matter and markdown-it. Today, I'll combine those tutorials to turn the Markdown blog, from the last tutorial, into a simple SSG.
  • Markdown blog with EJS
    3 projects | dev.to | 25 Jul 2022
    gray-matter, to parse the front matter from the Markdown files
  • Create Blog Post Bookmarks in Next.js
    3 projects | dev.to | 6 Jun 2022
    Luckily for us, there is a fantastic NPM package that can help us with this. Let’s install it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing remark and gray-matter you can also consider the following projects:

marked - A markdown parser and compiler. Built for speed.

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

front-matter - Extract YAML front matter from strings

rehype - HTML processor powered by plugins part of the @unifiedjs collective

react-markdown - Markdown component for React

TypeScript - TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.

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

URI.js - Javascript URL mutation library

nextjs-prism-markdown - Example using Prism / Markdown with Next.js including switching syntax highlighting themes.

JSONStream

mdx - Markdown for the component era