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axios vs Showdown: What are the differences?
Developers describe axios as "Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js". It is a Javascript library used to make http requests from node.js or XMLHttpRequests from the browser and it supports the Promise API that is native to JS ES6. On the other hand, Showdown is detailed as "JavaScript port of Markdown". 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.
axios and Showdown can be categorized as "Javascript Utilities & Libraries" tools.
axios and Showdown are both open source tools. It seems that axios with 62.9K GitHub stars and 5.21K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Showdown with 9.36K GitHub stars and 1.29K GitHub forks.
Pros of axios
Pros of Showdown
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