Markdown utilities for modern TypeScript projects: parse Markdown into HTML, read YAML frontmatter, and convert HTML back into clean GitHub-flavored Markdown.

@push.rocks/smartmarkdown wraps the Unified/Remark ecosystem for Markdown parsing and the Turndown ecosystem for HTML-to-Markdown conversion behind a small, typed API that works in Node.js and browser-oriented ESM builds.

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Install

pnpm add @push.rocks/smartmarkdown

What It Does

@push.rocks/smartmarkdown is intentionally focused:

Convert Markdown strings to HTML.
Parse YAML frontmatter into a JavaScript object.
Preserve access to the original Markdown source.
Convert HTML strings back to Markdown using ATX headings and fenced code blocks.
Support GitHub-flavored Markdown through remark-gfm and turndown-plugin-gfm.

Quick Start

import { SmartMarkdown } from '@push.rocks/smartmarkdown';

const html = await SmartMarkdown.easyMarkdownToHtml(`# Hello Markdown

- fast
- typed
- practical
`);

console.log(html);
// <h1>Hello Markdown</h1>
// <ul>
// <li>fast</li>
// <li>typed</li>
// <li>practical</li>
// </ul>

API

`SmartMarkdown.easyMarkdownToHtml(markdown)`

Static convenience method for the most common path: Markdown in, HTML out.

import { SmartMarkdown } from '@push.rocks/smartmarkdown';

const html = await SmartMarkdown.easyMarkdownToHtml('# Hi!');

console.log(html);
// <h1>Hi!</h1>

`new SmartMarkdown().getMdParsedResultFromMarkdown(markdown)`

Parses a Markdown string into an MdParsedResult instance.

import { SmartMarkdown } from '@push.rocks/smartmarkdown';

const smartMarkdown = new SmartMarkdown();

const result = await smartMarkdown.getMdParsedResultFromMarkdown(`---
title: Smart Docs
published: true
tags:
  - markdown
  - docs
---

# Smart Docs

Markdown with metadata.
`);

console.log(result.originalString); // the original Markdown input
console.log(result.html); // rendered HTML
console.log(result.frontmatterData); // { title: 'Smart Docs', published: true, tags: ['markdown', 'docs'] }

The returned object exposes:

originalString: the Markdown input string.
html: the rendered HTML output.
frontmatterData: parsed YAML frontmatter as Record<string, unknown>.
title: currently initialized as an empty string for consumers that want to attach title metadata.

`new SmartMarkdown().htmlToMarkdown(html)`

Converts HTML back to Markdown using Turndown with GitHub-flavored Markdown support.

import { SmartMarkdown } from '@push.rocks/smartmarkdown';

const smartMarkdown = new SmartMarkdown();

const markdown = smartMarkdown.htmlToMarkdown(`
<h1 id="hello">Hello</h1>
<p>This came from HTML.</p>
<ul>
  <li>tables, strikethrough, and task lists are handled through GFM support</li>
</ul>
`);

console.log(markdown);
// # Hello
//
// This came from HTML.

Frontmatter

Frontmatter is detected with remark-frontmatter and parsed through @push.rocks/smartyaml.

import { SmartMarkdown } from '@push.rocks/smartmarkdown';

const smartMarkdown = new SmartMarkdown();

const result = await smartMarkdown.getMdParsedResultFromMarkdown(`---
layout: guide
draft: false
order: 10
---

# Guide
`);

console.log(result.frontmatterData.layout); // 'guide'
console.log(result.frontmatterData.draft); // false
console.log(result.frontmatterData.order); // 10

If no frontmatter block is present, frontmatterData is an empty object.

Markdown Features

Markdown parsing uses:

remark-parse for Markdown parsing.
remark-gfm for GitHub-flavored Markdown.
remark-frontmatter for YAML/TOML frontmatter detection.
remark-html for HTML output.

HTML-to-Markdown conversion uses:

turndown with headingStyle: 'atx'.
turndown with codeBlockStyle: 'fenced'.
turndown-plugin-gfm for GitHub-flavored Markdown output.

TypeScript and ESM

This package ships as an ES module and includes TypeScript declarations.

import { SmartMarkdown } from '@push.rocks/smartmarkdown';

The package export points to the built ESM entrypoint and is ready for TypeScript, Node.js ESM, and bundler-based frontend projects.

License and Legal Information

This repository contains open-source code licensed under the MIT License. A copy of the license can be found in the LICENSE file.

Please note: The MIT License does not grant permission to use the trade names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of the project, except as required for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of the work and reproducing the content of the NOTICE file.

Trademarks

This project is owned and maintained by Task Venture Capital GmbH. The names and logos associated with Task Venture Capital GmbH and any related products or services are trademarks of Task Venture Capital GmbH or third parties, and are not included within the scope of the MIT license granted herein.

Use of these trademarks must comply with Task Venture Capital GmbH's Trademark Guidelines or the guidelines of the respective third-party owners, and any usage must be approved in writing. Third-party trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners and used only in a descriptive manner, e.g. for an implementation of an API or similar.

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