unified
Interface for parsing, inspecting, transforming and serializing content through syntax trees.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
39
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#27 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
60.8M
npm, last 7 days, unified
GitHub stars
5,038
last push Oct 3, 2026
How unified is used
unified is a dependency in 39 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #27 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 (69.2%), remark-parse (66.7%), tsx (48.7%).
Often used with unified
| remark-gfm | 69.2% of unified projects · 30.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| remark-parse | 66.7% of unified projects · 313.5× more than average |
| tsx | 48.7% of unified projects · 4.9× more than average |
| unist-util-visit | 48.7% of unified projects · 158.6× more than average |
| TypeScript | 97.4% of unified projects · 1.7× more than average |
| remark-rehype | 41.0% of unified projects · 236.8× more than average |
| react-markdown | 35.9% of unified projects · 12.7× more than average |
| Zod | 48.7% of unified projects · 2.9× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.6% 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 |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list unified as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install unified |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | TypeScript / JavaScript (25), Next.js (13), Python (1) |
| Example projects | thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, c15t/c15t, regenrek/deepwiki-mcp, miantiao-me/bm.md, 1600822305/AetherLink |
Alternatives to unified
| 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 | — |