md-jml

Markdown to JsonML parser. This is a port of marked to TypeScript.

Differences:

• Outputs JsonML AST instead of an HTML string.
• Written in TypeScript.
• Does not support highlighting functionality of marked, as it is better to do it by extending the Ast constructor function (a.k.a. Renderer in marked) or by traversing the resulting JsonML tree.
• Asynchronous AST generation.
• Not tested.

Unlike other Markdown parsers this module returns a JsonML AST of the resulting HTML instead of just an HTML string.

You can use that JsonML to easily concatenate it to an HTML string or feed the JsonML to a virtual DOM rendering engine, like React.js, Mithril.js, virtual-dom, etc...

Using marked you get an HTML string:

var marked = require('marked');
console.log(marked('I am using __markdown__.'));
// <p>I am using <strong>markdown</strong>.</p>

However, md-jml returns a JsonML tree:

var md = require('md-jml');
md.parse('I am using __markdown__.', {}, function(jml) {
    console.log(jml);
});

// [ 'div',
//     [ 'p', null,
//         'I am using ',
//         [ 'strong', null, 'markdown' ],
//         '.'
//     ]
// ]

You can use the resulting JsonML to generate HTML using the jml-h package:

var jmlh = require('jml-h');
var html = jmlh.dom(jml);
console.log(html);
// <div><p>I am using <strong>markdown</strong>.</p></div>