# jonschlinkert/remarkable

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.

Repository: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/remarkable
Homepage: https://jonschlinkert.github.io/remarkable/demo/
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: commonmark, gfm, markdown, parser, md, syntax-highlighting, nodejs, javascript, markdown-parser, node, markdown-it, jonschlinkert, parse, compile, docusaurus
Last push: 2024-05-17T12:20:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4384, "days_push": 838, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 5844, forks 376 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:31.561027+00:00)

## What it is
Remarkable is a fast, configurable Markdown parser for JavaScript with full CommonMark support, syntax extensions, and a plugin system for adding or replacing parsing rules. It renders Markdown to HTML in Node.js and the browser, and also ships a small CLI for converting Markdown files.

## Use cases
- parse markdown to html in node
- render user-generated markdown comments safely
- add custom markdown syntax rules or plugins
- convert markdown files to html from the command line
- highlight code blocks in markdown with highlight.js
- use markdown rendering in the browser via CDN

## When to choose
- you need a fast CommonMark-compliant markdown parser with configurable rules
- you want to extend or replace markdown syntax with plugins
- you need markdown rendering in both Node.js and the browser

## When to avoid
- you need HTML-to-markdown conversion (use breakdance instead)
- you prefer the more actively developed markdown-it ecosystem
- you need a full static site generator rather than a parsing library

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: parser, markdown, templating
- domain: web-development, frontend, developer-tools, documentation
- platform: browser, cli
- tags: commonmark, gfm, markdown-parser, syntax-plugins, html-rendering, extensible-rules, nodejs, javascript

## Member repositories
- jonschlinkert/remarkable (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:31.561027+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:51:54.845926+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:31.561027+00:00, sha 2c69d574a396)
  - homepage: https://jonschlinkert.github.io/remarkable/demo/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:47:39.409518+00:00, sha b0d098be81d0)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/remarkable (fetched 2026-08-29T08:47:39.418915+00:00, sha 1c1d72a738e7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.