remark-gfm
Remark plugin adding GitHub Flavored Markdown support for tables and strikethrough.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
288
2.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#2 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
44.5M
npm, last 7 days, remark-gfm
GitHub stars
1,249
last push Feb 10, 2025
How remark-gfm is used
remark-gfm is a dependency in 288 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (2.3%), #2 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use react-markdown (73.6%), Lucide React (70.5%), Tailwind Merge (63.5%).
Often used with remark-gfm
| react-markdown | 73.6% of remark-gfm projects · 26.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| Lucide React | 70.5% of remark-gfm projects · 3.6× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 63.5% of remark-gfm projects · 3.8× more than average |
| clsx | 63.9% of remark-gfm projects · 3.6× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 57.3% of remark-gfm projects · 4.1× more than average |
| React | 94.8% of remark-gfm projects · 2.2× more than average |
| Radix UI | 50.7% of remark-gfm projects · 4.2× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 84.0% of remark-gfm projects · 2.4× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 3.7% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 4.5% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 3.3% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 5.0% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 4.9% of projects set up for it |
| Devin Desktop | 3.3% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 2.5% of projects set up for it |
| Kiro | 4.8% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list remark-gfm as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install remark-gfm |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (183), TypeScript / JavaScript (89), Python (11), Other (2) |
| Example projects | c15t/c15t, regenrek/deepwiki-mcp, miantiao-me/bm.md, NeurProjects/neur-app, PageAI-Pro/vibe-coding-starter |
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