markdown-it
Modern pluggable markdown parser with plugin ecosystem.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
34
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#33 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
22.9M
npm, last 7 days, markdown-it
GitHub stars
22K
last push Sep 12, 2026
How markdown-it is used
markdown-it is a dependency in 34 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #33 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use TypeScript (82.4%), jsdom (29.4%), react-markdown (23.5%).
Often used with markdown-it
| TypeScript | 82.4% of markdown-it projects · 1.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| jsdom | 29.4% of markdown-it projects · 5.5× more than average |
| react-markdown | 23.5% of markdown-it projects · 8.3× more than average |
| Model Context Protocol SDK (JavaScript) | 23.5% of markdown-it projects · 5.0× more than average |
| esbuild | 23.5% of markdown-it projects · 8.7× more than average |
| Zod | 38.2% of markdown-it projects · 2.3× more than average |
| gray-matter | 20.6% of markdown-it projects · 24.7× more than average |
| Day.js | 20.6% of markdown-it projects · 16.5× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list markdown-it as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install markdown-it |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (26), Next.js (7), Python (1) |
| Example projects | LeagueAkari/LeagueAkari, ChrisTitusTech/website, gitmotion/ntfy-me-mcp, fountain-ink/app, initialencounter/2022-12-24 |
Alternatives to markdown-it
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| react-markdown npm React component for rendering markdown with customizable component handling. |
360 (2.8%) | 37.2M | 15.9K | MIT |
| remark-gfm npm Remark plugin adding GitHub Flavored Markdown support for tables and strikethrough. |
288 (2.3%) | 44.5M | 1,249 | MIT |
| Jinja2 pypi Fast and expressive template engine for Python with powerful flexibility. |
175 (1.4%) | 145M | 11.8K | — |
| Marked npm Fast, efficient markdown parser for converting markdown to HTML. |
148 (1.2%) | 83.8M | 37.2K | MIT |
| React Syntax Highlighter npm React component for syntax highlighting code with Prism.js or Highlight.js. |
110 (0.9%) | 7.8M | 4,674 | MIT |
| gray-matter npm Parser extracting YAML/JSON front matter from markdown and text files. |
106 (0.8%) | 10.6M | 4,490 | MIT |
| Tiptap npm Headless Vue/React rich text editor framework with customizable extensions. |
105 (0.8%) | 18.7M | 38.7K | MIT |
| Pygments pypi Syntax highlighting library for code in Python supporting hundreds of programming languages. |
97 (0.8%) | 239M | 2,213 | — |