remark
Markdown processor powered by unified ecosystem plugins for transforming content.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
36
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#31 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
6.4M
npm, last 7 days, remark
GitHub stars
9,016
last push Sep 27, 2026
How remark is used
remark is a dependency in 36 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #31 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use Prettier (69.4%), remark-gfm (66.7%), Next.js (66.7%).
Often used with remark
| Prettier | 69.4% of remark projects · 4.0× more than average |
|---|---|
| remark-gfm | 66.7% of remark projects · 29.4× more than average |
| Next.js | 66.7% of remark projects · 3.0× more than average |
| Lucide React | 61.1% of remark projects · 3.1× more than average |
| Zod | 55.6% of remark projects · 3.3× more than average |
| React | 88.9% of remark projects · 2.0× more than average |
| gray-matter | 44.4% of remark projects · 53.2× more than average |
| next-themes | 44.4% of remark projects · 5.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.8% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.1% 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 remark as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install remark |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (24), TypeScript / JavaScript (12) |
| Example projects | NG-ZORRO/ng-zorro-antd, c15t/c15t, PageAI-Pro/vibe-coding-starter, hzrd149/nostrudel, adobe/spectrum-design-data |
Alternatives to remark
| 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 | — |