Monaco Editor
Browser-based code editor powering VS Code with syntax highlighting and language support.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
47
0.4% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#22 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
9.6M
npm, last 7 days, monaco-editor
GitHub stars
46.9K
last push Oct 3, 2026
How Monaco Editor is used
Monaco Editor is a dependency in 47 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.4%), #22 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use @monaco-editor/react (74.5%), Vitest (53.2%), Testing Library (44.7%).
Often used with Monaco Editor
| @monaco-editor/react | 74.5% of Monaco Editor projects · 178.4× more than average |
|---|---|
| Vitest | 53.2% of Monaco Editor projects · 4.4× more than average |
| Testing Library | 44.7% of Monaco Editor projects · 6.2× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 53.2% of Monaco Editor projects · 3.2× more than average |
| Vite | 61.7% of Monaco Editor projects · 2.7× more than average |
| Playwright (JavaScript) | 40.4% of Monaco Editor projects · 4.6× more than average |
| TypeScript | 93.6% of Monaco Editor projects · 1.7× more than average |
| ESLint | 76.6% of Monaco Editor projects · 2.0× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.4% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Monaco Editor as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install monaco-editor |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (23), TypeScript / JavaScript (21), PHP (1), Go (1) |
| Example projects | NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd, LeagueAkari/LeagueAkari, Hyk260/PureChat, blockscout/frontend, bitrise-io/bitrise-workflow-editor |
Alternatives to Monaco Editor
| 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. |
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| Marked npm Fast, efficient markdown parser for converting markdown to HTML. |
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| 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 | — |