serkodev/markdown-exit

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Fast, customizable Markdown parser and renderer with full CommonMark support. TypeScript rewrite of markdown-it with enhancements.

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🛡️ Type Safety: Ship robust types, improve DX, and enable type-safe development.
⚡ New features: Async rendering for all rules includeing syntax highlighting and more.
🔌 Extensibility: Extend the markdown syntax, custom rendering with Plugins.
🤝 Compatibility: Compatible with markdown-it v15.0+ and its plugin API.

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README.md

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markdown-exit

A TypeScript rewrite of markdown-it with first-class typings, modern tooling, and enhancements.

Features

🛡️ Type Safety: Ship robust types, improve DX, and enable type-safe development.
⚡ New features: Async rendering for all rules includeing syntax highlighting and more.
🔌 Extensibility: Extend the markdown syntax, custom rendering with Plugins.
🤝 Compatibility: Compatible with markdown-it v15.0+ and its plugin API.

Documentation

Read the documentation for more details.

Installation

npm i markdown-exit

Version Compatibility

markdown-exit v2.0+ (@latest) supports markdown-it v15.0+ and its plugins, and adds new capabilities such as async rendering along with performance improvements.

markdown-exit	markdown-it	Status
`v2.0+` (`@latest`)	`v15.0+`	Actively maintained
`v1.x`	`v14.x`	Superseded — see Migration to v2
`v0.x` (`@legacy`)	`v14.3.0`	No longer maintained

v0.x @legacy — no longer maintained

The legacy branch (v0.x) is no longer maintained. Its final release is v0.5.0, which tracks markdown-it v14.3.0.

v0.x existed to bring TypeScript typings to markdown-it. Since markdown-it has been rewritten in TypeScript as of v15, you can simply use markdown-it directly if native typings are all you need — or move to markdown-exit v2.0+ for markdown-it v15.0+ support plus async rendering and other enhancements.

npm i markdown-exit@legacy

Usage

import { createMarkdownExit } from 'markdown-exit'

// factory helper
const md = createMarkdownExit()
const html = md.render('# markdown-exit')

import { MarkdownExit } from 'markdown-exit'

// with the `new` keyword
const md = new MarkdownExit()
const html = md.render('# markdown-exit')

Default import

[!NOTE] Default export (with callable constructor support) is retained for markdown-it compatibility, but it may have drawbacks in module interop and tree-shaking.

import MarkdownExit from 'markdown-exit'

// callable function
const md = MarkdownExit()
md.render('# markdown-exit')

// with the `new` keyword
const md = new MarkdownExit()
md.render('# markdown-exit')

Guides

Migrate from markdown-it

Drop-in replacement for markdown-it with enhancements, see Migration Guide for details.

- import MarkdownIt from 'markdown-it'
+ import MarkdownExit from 'markdown-exit'

Credits

This project owes its foundation to the markdown-it community and all its contributors.

Authors of markdown-it

Alex Kocharin github/rlidwka
Vitaly Puzrin github/puzrin

Special Thanks

John MacFarlane for the CommonMark spec and reference implementations.
Definition owners of @types/markdown-it for the type definitions reference.
Anthony Fu for inspiring async rendering by markdown-it-async.