Top 6 JavaScript markdown-parser Projects

showdown

8 12,940 8.5 JavaScript

A bidirectional Markdown to HTML to Markdown converter written in Javascript

Project mention: How do I display a markdown table on a website with go backend? | reddit.com/r/golang | 2022-11-03

So you're going to need a Markdown parser that produces HTML. But there's a question of where is the data coming from and where you you want to process it? If it's going to be all on the frontend like a text editor, use a JS library for it (a quick google search produces ShowdownJS)
remarkable

1 5,439 0.0 JavaScript

Markdown parser, done right. Commonmark support, extensions, syntax plugins, high speed - all in one. Gulp and metalsmith plugins available. Used by Facebook, Docusaurus and many others! Use https://github.com/breakdance/breakdance for HTML-to-markdown conversion. Use https://github.com/jonschlinkert/markdown-toc to generate a table of contents.

Project mention: Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-12-30

> we can't take some well-tested, used-by-millions library
You can.
Here is an example of Sciter application that uses RemarkableJS library (https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable) as it is:
https://quark.sciter.com/quark-application-samples/hello-mar...
Scout APM

scoutapm.com
sponsored

Truly a developer’s best friend. Scout APM is great for developers who want to find and fix performance issues in their applications. With Scout, we'll take care of the bugs so you can focus on building great things 🚀.
cms.js

1 3,034 0.0 JavaScript

Client-Side JavaScript Site Generator

Project mention: Creating a blog without a framework | reddit.com/r/webdev | 2022-02-03
easy-markdown-editor

4 1,746 8.5 JavaScript

EasyMDE: A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking.

Project mention: Any suggestions for a rich-text-editor in React? [More info below] | reddit.com/r/reactjs | 2022-07-02

Otherwise I've been using EasyMDE, seems to be going OK.
MdToNotion

1 8 0.0 JavaScript

Parser markdown to Notion

Project mention: My backlink graph view implement in notion | reddit.com/r/Notion | 2021-12-15

I have a notion database that contain all my notes and backlink that I imported from obsidian using this MdToNotion, then I made a simple code using notion API to append my embedded graph URL to every notes in database, So all of your notes will link to each other. You can drag your graph, click to navigate to other notes and also show your local graph. You can see my example notes here example notes.
mdown-editor

1 2 5.1 JavaScript

A markdown editor playground with preview panel written in Angular with html5, css3 and javascript

Project mention: MDown Editor - A markdown playground | dev.to | 2022-02-23

I named this editor as MDown Editor because this is a Markdown playground. This open source project can run online same as offline. See how to run offline on github.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020). The latest post mention was on 2022-11-03.