What is Showdown?
Showdown lets you add in-browser preview to existing Markdown apps. Any app that accepts HTML input can now be made to speak Markdown by modifying the input pages's HTML
Showdown is a tool in the Javascript Utilities & Libraries category of a tech stack.
Showdown is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Showdown's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Showdown?
Companies
10 companies reportedly use Showdown in their tech stacks, including Helpful, Frappe, and Nodebestpractices.
Developers
42 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Showdown.
Showdown Integrations
Pros of Showdown
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Showdown Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Showdown?
jQuery
jQuery is a cross-platform JavaScript library designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML.
React
Lots of people use React as the V in MVC. Since React makes no assumptions about the rest of your technology stack, it's easy to try it out on a small feature in an existing project.
AngularJS
AngularJS lets you write client-side web applications as if you had a smarter browser. It lets you use good old HTML (or HAML, Jade and friends!) as your template language and lets you extend HTML’s syntax to express your application’s components clearly and succinctly. It automatically synchronizes data from your UI (view) with your JavaScript objects (model) through 2-way data binding.
Vue.js
It is a library for building interactive web interfaces. It provides data-reactive components with a simple and flexible API.
jQuery UI
Whether you're building highly interactive web applications or you just need to add a date picker to a form control, jQuery UI is the perfect choice.