unified

Content as structured data

We compile content to syntax trees and syntax trees to content.
We also provide hundreds of packages to work on the trees in between.
You can build on the unified collective to make all kinds of interesting things.

Build

We provide the building blocks: from tiny, focussed, modular utilities to plugins that combine them to perform bigger tasks. And much, much more. You can build on unified, mixing and matching building blocks together, to make all kinds of interesting new things.

  1. Prettier

    Uses unified to format Markdown

    2. prettier.io

  2. Gatsby

    Uses unified to pull content into GraphQL

    2. gatsbyjs.org

  3. Write Music

    Uses unified to visualize sentence length

    2. wooorm.com/write-music

  4. Node.js

    Uses unified to check and build their docs

    2. nodejs.org

  5. alex

    Uses unified to catch insensitive, inconsiderate writing

    2. alexjs.com

  6. See 23 other cases

Learn

We provide the interface: for parsing, inspecting, transforming, and serializing content. You work on structured data. Learn how to plug building blocks together, write your own, and make things with unified.

  1. Intro to unified

    Guide that summarises the what and why of unified

    1. guide
    2. welcome
    3. introduction
    1. Merlijn Vos

  2. Tree traversal

    How to do tree traversal (also known as walking or visiting a tree)

    1. recipe
    2. unist
    3. tree
    4. traverse
    5. walk
    6. visit
    1. Titus Wormer

  3. Use unified

    Guide that delves into transforming Markdown to HTML

    1. guide
    2. use
    3. transform
    4. remark
    5. rehype
    1. Titus Wormer

  4. Create a plugin

    Guide that shows how to create a (retext) plugin

    1. guide
    2. plugin
    3. retext
    1. Titus Wormer

  5. Create an editor

    Guide that shows how to create a fancy app ✨

    1. guide
    2. editor
    3. dingus
    1. Titus Wormer

  6. See 4 other articles

Explore

The ever growing ecosystem that the unified collective provides today consists of 254 open source projects, with a combined 20k stars on GitHub. In the last 30 days, the 392 packages maintained in those projects were downloaded 269m times from npm. Much of this is maintained by our teams, yet others are provided by the community.

  1. unist-util-remove

    unist utility to remove nodes from a tree
    1. 75%
    3. 2m
    4. 543 B

  2. remark-stringify

    remark plugin to compile Markdown
    1. 84%
    3. 8m
    4. 10.6 kB

  3. mdast-util-compact

    mdast utility to make a tree compact
    1. 77%
    3. 7m
    4. 937 B

  4. hast-util-parse-selector

    hast utility to create an element from a simple CSS selector
    1. 77%
    3. 8m
    4. 327 B

  5. @mdx-js/loader

    Loader for MDX
    1. 79%
    3. 1m
    4. 323 kB

  6. See 392 packages and 254 projects

Sponsor

Maintaining the collective, developing new projects, keeping everything fast and secure, and helping users, is a lot of work. Thankfully, we are backed financially by our sponsors. This allows us to spend more time maintaining our projects and developing new ones. To support our efforts financially, sponsor or back us on OpenCollective.

  1. GatsbyJS

    3. gatsbyjs.com

  2. ZEIT

    Our mission is to make cloud computing accessible to everyone

    4. zeit.co

  3. Netlify

    Netlify is everything you need to build fast, modern websites: continuous deployment, serverless functions, and so much more.

    4. netlify.com

  4. Holloway

    We publish Guides for navigating life’s complexities.

    3. holloway.com

  5. BoostIO

    The open source enthusiastic collective.

    2. boostio.co

  6. See 25 other sponsors