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Agents tracked: 378 Downloads (7d): 244M down 5.7% GitHub stars: 8.4M VS Code installs: 151M Releases (7d): 407 Agent status: 1 with issues Updated Oct 10, 2026

next-mdx-remote

Load and render MDX from remote sources as data in Next.js applications.

Markdown, editors and content npm MPL-2.0

Used in agent projects
36
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#30 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
1.4M
npm, last 7 days, next-mdx-remote
GitHub stars
3,069
last push Mar 26, 2026

How next-mdx-remote is used

next-mdx-remote is a dependency in 36 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #30 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use Next.js (97.2%), Lucide React (80.6%), clsx (75.0%).

Often used with next-mdx-remote

Next.js97.2% of next-mdx-remote projects · 4.3× more than average
Lucide React80.6% of next-mdx-remote projects · 4.1× more than average
clsx75.0% of next-mdx-remote projects · 4.2× more than average
gray-matter75.0% of next-mdx-remote projects · 89.8× more than average
remark-gfm75.0% of next-mdx-remote projects · 33.1× more than average
Tailwind Merge66.7% of next-mdx-remote projects · 4.0× more than average
Class Variance Authority63.9% of next-mdx-remote projects · 4.5× more than average
next-themes63.9% of next-mdx-remote projects · 7.3× more than average

By coding agent

Cursor0.8% of projects set up for it
Claude Code0.5% of projects set up for it
GitHub Copilot0.5% of projects set up for it
Gemini CLI1.1% of projects set up for it
OpenCode1.6% of projects set up for it

Share of public repos configured for each agent that list next-mdx-remote as a dependency.

Install

Packagenpm install next-mdx-remote
Main stacksNext.js (35), TypeScript / JavaScript (1)
Example projectsinboundemail/inbound, amirardalan/portfolio, thereactfoundation/react.foundation, nirholas/memescope-monday, metasal1/solana-web3-v2-demo

Alternatives to next-mdx-remote

All markdown, editors and content

Tool Used in agent projectsDownloads / wk GitHub starsLicense
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
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97 (0.8%) 239M 2,213 —
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