remark-frontmatter
Remark plugin to parse and handle YAML/TOML frontmatter in markdown.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
23
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#41 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
6M
npm, last 7 days, remark-frontmatter
GitHub stars
323
last push Oct 2, 2023
How remark-frontmatter is used
remark-frontmatter is a dependency in 23 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #41 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use remark-gfm (69.6%), MDX (56.5%), tsx (52.2%).
Often used with remark-frontmatter
| remark-gfm | 69.6% of remark-frontmatter projects · 30.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| MDX | 56.5% of remark-frontmatter projects · 104.0× more than average |
| tsx | 52.2% of remark-frontmatter projects · 5.2× more than average |
| clsx | 60.9% of remark-frontmatter projects · 3.4× more than average |
| unified | 47.8% of remark-frontmatter projects · 155.7× more than average |
| rehype-slug | 47.8% of remark-frontmatter projects · 112.5× more than average |
| Vitest | 47.8% of remark-frontmatter projects · 3.9× more than average |
| lint-staged | 43.5% of remark-frontmatter projects · 9.3× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list remark-frontmatter as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install remark-frontmatter |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (13), Next.js (9), Python (1) |
| Example projects | c15t/c15t, miantiao-me/bm.md, wesbos/wesbos, adobe/spectrum-design-data, awslabs/nx-plugin-for-aws |
Alternatives to remark-frontmatter
| 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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| 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 | — |