Snarkdown Alternatives

Snarkdown is described as 'Relatively simple Markdown parser written in JavaScript that's built for speed. It's fast because it's tiny (only 1kb), and uses a single, lengthy but efficient, regular expression for a tokenizer' and is an app in the development category. There are five alternatives to Snarkdown for Self-Hosted and Web-based. The best Snarkdown alternative is Markdown-it, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Snarkdown are ShowdownJS, Markdeep, Strapdown.js and Marked.js.

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  1. Markdown-it icon
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    Markdown-it is a high-speed Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions & syntax plugins.

    5 Markdown-it alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. ShowdownJS icon
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    Showdown is a JavaScript Markdown to HTML converter, based on the original works by John Gruber. Showdown can be used client side (in the browser) or server side (with NodeJs).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Markdeep icon
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    Markdeep is an encompassing JavaScript library for rendering Markdown in the browser. It requires no dependencies and directly supports advanced features like charts and diagrams, fenced code blocks, schedule lists and much more.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Create Markdown documents using JavaScript and Bootstrap themes. Strapdown.js makes it embarrassingly simple to create elegant Markdown documents. No server-side compilation required. Use it to quickly document your projects, create tutorials, home pages, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  5.  Like

    A full-featured markdown parser and compiler, written in JavaScript. Built for speed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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