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react-markdown vs markdown-to-jsx

MarkdownPackage data 25 Sept 2026
react-markdownv10.1.0, 7 Mar 2025

React component to render markdown

$ npm install react-markdown
markdown-to-jsxv9.10.3, 15 Sept 2026

A very fast and versatile markdown toolchain. AST, React, React Native, SolidJS, Vue, Markdown, and HTML output available with full customization.

$ npm install markdown-to-jsx
Metricreact-markdownmarkdown-to-jsxDifference
Weekly downloads24,600,3133,783,831react-markdown 6.5x higher
12-month download growth+324%+16%react-markdown +308 pts
Gzip size---
Minified size---
Dependencies110react-markdown 11 more
Unpacked size51 kB4.8 MBreact-markdown 95.7x smaller
Latest release10.1.0, 7 Mar 20259.10.3, 15 Sept 2026markdown-to-jsx 18 months more recent
Releases, last 12 months054markdown-to-jsx 54 more
First published9 May 20157 Dec 2015react-markdown 7 months earlier
GitHub stars15,8902,393react-markdown 6.6x higher
Open issues112markdown-to-jsx 11 more
Open pull requests41react-markdown 3 more
Contributors---
Commits, last 52 weeks4309markdown-to-jsx 77.3x higher
TypeScript typesBundledBundledSame
Module formatESM onlyESM + CommonJSDiffers
Runtimes---
LicenseMITMITSame

Green marks the smaller size or the more recent release. Bold marks the higher count, with no judgement implied. Sizes are for the whole package per Bundlephobia. Growth compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series.

react-markdown24.6m latest weekmarkdown-to-jsx3.8m latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
Weekly npm downloads, 52 weeks. Y axis starts at zero. Values are not smoothed.

react-markdown

Major versions
  1. 1.0.019 May 2015
  2. 2.0.021 Feb 2016
  3. 3.0.020 Nov 2017
  4. 4.0.02 Oct 2018
  5. 5.0.019 Oct 2020
  6. 6.0.015 Apr 2021
  7. 7.0.013 Aug 2021
  8. 8.0.017 Jan 2022
  9. 9.0.027 Sept 2023
  10. 10.0.020 Feb 2025
Last 5 releases
  1. 10.1.07 Mar 2025
  2. 10.0.13 Mar 2025
  3. 10.0.020 Feb 2025
  4. 9.1.020 Feb 2025
  5. 9.0.36 Jan 2025
94 releases in total, 0 in the last 12 months

markdown-to-jsx

Major versions
  1. 1.0.07 Dec 2015
  2. 2.0.021 Mar 2016
  3. 3.0.028 Jun 2016
  4. 4.0.329 Sept 2016
  5. 5.0.012 Jan 2017
  6. 6.0.24 Dec 2017
  7. 7.0.07 Sept 2020
  8. 8.0.026 Oct 2025
  9. 9.0.022 Nov 2025
Last 5 releases
  1. 9.10.315 Sept 2026
  2. 9.10.23 Aug 2026
  3. 9.10.131 Jul 2026
  4. 9.10.031 Jul 2026
  5. 9.9.020 Jul 2026
172 releases in total, 54 in the last 12 months
react-markdown

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markdown-to-jsx

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react-markdown

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markdown-to-jsx

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  • Need no runtime dependenciesmarkdown-to-jsx (react-markdown has 11, markdown-to-jsx has 0)
  • Need both ESM and CommonJS entry pointsmarkdown-to-jsx (react-markdown: ESM only; markdown-to-jsx: ESM + CommonJS)
  • Need to load it with require()markdown-to-jsx
  • Need TypeScript types in the package itselfBoth
  • Node.js version requirementreact-markdown: none declared; markdown-to-jsx: >= 18 (engines field in package.json)
  • Need the more recent releasemarkdown-to-jsx (9.10.3 on 15 Sept 2026 vs 10.1.0 on 7 Mar 2025)
  • Higher weekly npm downloadsreact-markdown (24.6m vs 3.8m)

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