Showdown is a Javascript Markdown to HTML converter, based on the original works by John Gruber. Showdown can be used client side (in the browser) or server side (with NodeJs). Check a live demo here

Who uses Showdown

• GoogleCloudPlatform
• Ghost
• Meteor
• Stackexchange - forked as PageDown
• docular
• and some others...

Get it...

• Download tarball: download the latest release tarball directly from releases
• CDN:
  • rawgit: https://cdn.rawgit.com/showdownjs/showdown/<version tag>/dist/showdown.min.js
  • cdnjs: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/showdown/<version tag>/showdown.min.js
• Bower: bower install showdown
• npm: npm install showdown
• NuGet: PM> Install-Package showdownjs - NuGet package here

Use it...

//node
var showdown = require('showdown');
var converter = new showdown.Converter();
var htmlOutput = converter.makeHtml('*Hello* __World__');

Check our wiki pages for a more in-depth documentation, such as syntax support, examples, extensions, etc...

Changelog