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 v14.1.0 and plugin API.

Documentation

Read the documentation for more details.

Installation

v1+ @latest: All new features and may include breaking changes.

[!IMPORTANT]
🚧 markdown-exit v1 is currently in public beta (v1.0.0-beta.*).
Breaking changes may occur until a stable v1.0.0 is released.

npm i markdown-exit

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')

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

• Markdown Syntax
• Redering
• Plugins

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.

License

MIT License © Alex Kocharin, Vitaly Puzrin, SerKo