remarkjs/remark

Health v2 · maintenance only

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8987 stars · 384 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

remark is a plugin-powered markdown processor built on the unified ecosystem that parses markdown into an AST (mdast) and transforms it. It is 100% CommonMark compliant, supports GFM and MDX via plugins, and runs on the server, client, and CLIs.

Use cases

• convert markdown to html in node
• lint and format markdown files
• parse markdown into an ast for custom transformations
• add gfm or mdx support to a markdown pipeline
• build a markdown-based static site or docs pipeline
• check markdown style on the cli

When to choose

• you need programmatic, AST-level manipulation of markdown
• you want a composable plugin ecosystem with 150+ plugins
• you need strict CommonMark compliance with optional GFM/MDX
• you want one pipeline for markdown linting, transformation, and HTML output

When to avoid

• you just need a quick one-off markdown-to-HTML string conversion with no plugins
• you need a WYSIWYG markdown editor UI
• you work in a non-JavaScript language without unified bindings

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser markdown plugin-system formatter linter web-development developer-tools documentation parsers browser cli cross-platform unified mdast commonmark gfm mdx ast ecosystem nodejs deno

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