developit/snarkdown

Health v2 · maintenance only

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2400 stars · 113 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Snarkdown is a dead-simple 1kb Markdown parser written in JavaScript that converts a Markdown string into an HTML string. It is intentionally minimal, designed for constrained use cases where a full-featured Markdown parser would be overkill.

Use cases

• convert markdown to html in the browser
• render user comments as html with minimal overhead
• add markdown rendering to a small web app without heavy dependencies
• parse markdown in a preact or react editor
• transform md files to html via webpack loader
• embed a tiny markdown parser in a constrained environment

When to choose

• bundle size is critical and you only need basic markdown
• your input is trusted or sanitized elsewhere
• you need a simple string-in string-out parser with no config
• you need commonjs, umd, and es module support

When to avoid

• you need tables or full GFM support
• you must sanitize untrusted user input against XSS
• you need extensions, plugins, or AST output
• you need spec-compliant markdown parsing

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

parser markdown web-development frontend parsers documentation browser cross-platform tiny 1kb markdown-to-html zero-dependency es-modules nodejs

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