markdown-it-emoji
Plugin for markdown-it to parse and render emojis in Markdown text.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
How markdown-it-emoji is used
markdown-it-emoji joined the catalog on its public numbers (531,466 downloads a week on npm and 772 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 5 public GitHub projects of our scan, 4 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use markdown-it (100.0%), markdown-it-anchor (80.0%), Vite (80.0%).
markdown-it-emoji popularity over time
Gid Score 32: downloads 58, use in agent projects 7, GitHub stars 7, downloads trend 57 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with markdown-it-emoji
| markdown-it | 100.0% of markdown-it-emoji projects · 95.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| markdown-it-anchor | 80.0% of markdown-it-emoji projects · 827.7× more than average |
| Vite | 80.0% of markdown-it-emoji projects · 4.1× more than average |
| cross-env | 60.0% of markdown-it-emoji projects · 18.3× more than average |
| esbuild | 60.0% of markdown-it-emoji projects · 12.8× more than average |
| rimraf | 60.0% of markdown-it-emoji projects · 23.6× more than average |
| Sharp | 60.0% of markdown-it-emoji projects · 12.8× more than average |
| Element Plus | 60.0% of markdown-it-emoji projects · 372.5× more than average |
How markdown-it-emoji is funded
Open Collective: markdown-it
| Received, last 12 months | $2,714 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $3,110 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $59 |
| Raised since the start | $34,777 · $34,717 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $8 · $8 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | +157% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 2 |
Top company backers all time
| Sanity | $3,000 since Jan 2026 |
|---|---|
| famebot | $150 since Jul 2025 |
Jan 2022Sep 2026
Money by month. First money received in Jan 2022. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 1 more tool in our catalog: markdown-it.
Open Collective lists this collective for the markdown-it organization on GitHub, so the money is for all of its projects, not markdown-it-emoji alone.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @puzrin | 3 current sponsors |
|---|---|
| @markdown-it | 4 current sponsors |
GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes js-yaml, markdown-it, pako.
Ways to fund markdown-it-emoji
GitHub Sponsors GitHub Sponsors
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install markdown-it-emoji |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (5) |
| Example projects | xpf0000/FlyEnv, RT-Thread/vscode-rt-smart |
Alternatives to markdown-it-emoji
In our scan, none of the most used tools in Markdown, editors and content does the same job as markdown-it-emoji: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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