Package

remark-frontmatter

remark plugin to support frontmatter (yaml, toml, and more)

v5.0.0, 18 Sept 2023MITESM onlyTypes: BundledMarkdown Parsers and serialisers

$ npm install remark-frontmatter

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Key numbers

As of 25 Sept 2026

Weekly downloads: 4.2m; +122% over 12 months
Gzip bundle size: -; No Bundlephobia data
Dependencies: 4; Direct, from package.json
Last release: 3 years ago; v5.0.0
GitHub stars: 322; 11 forks
Open issues / PRs: 0 / 0
Contributors: -
Commits, last 52 weeks: 0

Downloads

Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21

Weekly npm downloads, one point per week, weeks starting 23 Sept 2025 to 15 Sept 2026. The y axis starts at zero.

4,207,753 downloads last week, 17,351,594 in the last month. The 12-month change of +122% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.

Maintenance

Releases, last 12 months: 013 in total
Latest version: 5.0.0, 18 Sept 20233 years ago
First published: 20 Jul 2017
Last push to GitHub: 2 Oct 20231,088 days before the snapshot
Repository archived: No
Open issues: 0
Open pull requests: 0
Commits, last 52 weeks: 0
Dependents on npm: 1,226

Major versions

v5 first release 5.0.0, 18 Sept 2023
v4 first release 4.0.0, 5 Aug 2021
v3 first release 3.0.0, 4 Oct 2020
v2 first release 2.0.0, 6 Apr 2020
v1 first release 1.0.0, 20 Jul 2017

Recent releases

Version	Published
5.0.0	18 Sept 2023
4.0.1	26 Oct 2021
4.0.0	5 Aug 2021
3.0.0	4 Oct 2020
2.0.0	6 Apr 2020
1.3.3	23 Mar 2020
1.3.2	16 Jun 2019
1.3.1	22 Nov 2018
1.3.0	23 Sept 2018
1.2.1	10 Aug 2018
1.2.0	4 Dec 2017
1.1.0	1 Aug 2017
1.0.0	20 Jul 2017

Compatibility

Module format: ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
TypeScript types: Bundled
Node.js engine range: Not declared
Runtimes: -
Unpacked size (npm): 21 kB
Dependencies (4): unified@types/mdastmdast-util-frontmattermicromark-extension-frontmatter

Install

npm install remark-frontmatter

CDN

jsDelivrhttps://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/remark-frontmatter@5.0.0/
unpkghttps://unpkg.com/remark-frontmatter@5.0.0/
esm.shhttps://esm.sh/remark-frontmatter@5.0.0

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Sources: npm registry, npm downloads API, GitHub API. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.

Indexability: Indexed.