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What’s micromark
Something like remark (Markdown processor powered by plugins based on
unified), but on a lower level: a lexer (in nerdy terms ?).
Syntax trees have many good things, but they do come with the downside of
having a big memory footprint and sometimes being more than what you need.
We’re launching micromark as just an idea.
The first line of code still needs to be written.
But we imagine it to be:
- small in file size, max 10 kB minzipped, and tiny in memory use
- fast in speed, compared to existing parsers on real world documents
- safe to use, it should safely work on untrusted content by default
- compliant to CommonMark but extensible for GFM (GitHub Flavored
Markdown), MDX, etc. - complete, in that it should give access to all info in the source
document
But it’s not:
- something that creates HTML and the like: other projects use micromark for
that - something that creates a syntax tree: remark will use it to do just that
How it’ll be used
micromark is part of the unified collective.
But it will likely not be something you’d directly interact with, unless
you’re interested in working on parsers,.
It will make high-level tooling better.
Evolving unified shouldn’t just be about new high-level features but also about
rethinking core mechanisms.
That’s where micromark comes in, so unified can build the most friendly,
secure, fast, and extensive bridges between content formats.
Contribute
See contributing.md in micromark/.github for ways
to get started.
See support.md for ways to get help.
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