# Install showdown with npm

A Markdown to HTML converter written in Javascript. Version 2.1.0 via npm; verified 2022-04-21.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:showdown
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g showdown
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:showdown
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/showdown>
- **Version:** 2.1.0
- **Source summary:** A Markdown to HTML converter written in Javascript
- **Homepage:** <http://showdownjs.com/>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown>
- **Upstream docs:** <http://showdownjs.com/>
- **License:** MIT
- **Source archive:** <https://registry.npmjs.org/showdown/-/showdown-2.1.0.tgz>
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/issues>
- **Published:** 2022-04-21T00:33:05.614Z
- **Last updated:** 2022-04-21T00:33:05.614Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-10T07:20:53+00:00

## Executables

- showdown (cli)
- showdown (alias)

## Dependencies

- commander

## Build dependencies

- chai
- chai-match
- grunt
- grunt-contrib-clean
- grunt-contrib-concat
- grunt-contrib-jshint
- grunt-contrib-uglify
- grunt-conventional-changelog
- grunt-conventional-github-releaser
- grunt-endline
- grunt-eslint
- grunt-simple-mocha
- jsdom
- load-grunt-tasks
- performance-now
- quiet-grunt
- semver
- semver-sort
- sinon
- source-map-support

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-10
- Package-manager version: 2.1.0
- Package-manager updated: 2022-04-21
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for showdown. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 2.1.0
- **Version Count:** 62
- **Maintainers:** tivie, syntaxrules
- **Author:** Estevão Santos
- **Publisher:** tivie
- **Funding:** <https://www.paypal.me/tiviesantos>
- **Integrity:** sha512-/6NVYu4U819R2pUIk79n67SYgJHWCce0a5xTP979WbNp0FL9MN1I1QK662IDU1b6JzKTvmhgI7T7JYIxBi3kMQ==
- **Shasum:** 1251f5ed8f773f0c0c7bfc8e6fd23581f9e545c5
- **Unpacked Size:** 800,519
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2011-04-12T02:19:21.530Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2022-04-21T00:33:05.614Z
- **Modified At:** 2023-07-31T02:55:58.885Z


## Related links

- [Web development packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/web-dev-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [devextreme-showdown](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/devextreme-showdown/) - Executable or command metadata overlaps with this package. Shared terms: cli, converter, developer, developer-tools, html.
- [markdown-link-check](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/markdown-link-check/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, commander, developer, developer-tools, documentation.
- [mdx2vast](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/mdx2vast/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, commander, developer, developer-tools, documentation.

## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph