sanitize-html VS markdown-it

Compare sanitize-html vs markdown-it and see what are their differences.

sanitize-html

Clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis. Built on htmlparser2 for speed and tolerance (by apostrophecms)

markdown-it

Markdown parser, done right. 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins & high speed (by markdown-it)
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sanitize-html markdown-it
4 55
3,604 17,085
1.7% 1.7%
7.6 8.5
29 days ago about 1 month ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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sanitize-html

Posts with mentions or reviews of sanitize-html. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-19.

markdown-it

Posts with mentions or reviews of markdown-it. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-14.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sanitize-html and markdown-it you can also consider the following projects:

DOMPurify - DOMPurify - a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMPurify works with a secure default, but offers a lot of configurability and hooks. Demo:

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

js-xss - Sanitize untrusted HTML (to prevent XSS) with a configuration specified by a Whitelist

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

xss-filters

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

SuperTokens Community - Open source alternative to Auth0 / Firebase Auth / AWS Cognito

js-yaml - JavaScript YAML parser and dumper. Very fast.

Retire.js - scanner detecting the use of JavaScript libraries with known vulnerabilities. Can also generate an SBOM of the libraries it finds.

nearley - 📜🔜🌲 Simple, fast, powerful parser toolkit for JavaScript.

insane - :pouting_cat: Lean and configurable whitelist-oriented HTML sanitizer

docx-to-pdf-on-AWS-Lambda - Microsoft Word doc/docx to PDF conversion on AWS Lambda using Node.js