remark VS ref

Compare remark vs ref and see what are their differences.

remark

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

ref

Turn Buffer instances into "pointers" (by TooTallNate)
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remark ref
44 1
7,930 458
1.6% 0.9%
7.8 2.7
7 days ago over 1 year 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 2024-08-17.
  • Extending AstroJS Markdown Processing With Remark and Rehype Plugins
    4 projects | dev.to | 17 Aug 2024
    Both Remark and Rehype are frameworks to transform documents by first transforming them to abstract syntax trees (AST) and then applying pluggable functions to the AST before converting it to the target format.
  • Developing GROWI Plug-ins (Remark Plug-ins)
    2 projects | dev.to | 19 Jul 2024
    remarkjs/remark: markdown processor powered by plugins part of the @unifiedjs collective
  • 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
    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.

ref

Posts with mentions or reviews of ref. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-05.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing remark and ref you can also consider the following projects:

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

URI.js - Javascript URL mutation library

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

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

json-query - Retrieves values from JSON objects for data binding [GET https://api.github.com/repos/auditassistant/json-query: 404 - Not Found // See: https://docs.github.com/rest/repos/repos#get-a-repository]

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

Awesome phonenumber parser - Google's libphonenumber pre-compiled with the closure compiler

react-markdown - Markdown component for React

lightningcss - An extremely fast CSS parser, transformer, bundler, and minifier written in Rust.

xlsx-populate - Excel XLSX parser/generator written in JavaScript with Node.js and browser support, jQuery/d3-style method chaining, encryption, and a focus on keeping existing workbook features and styles in tact.

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

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