A Renderer for the marked project. Allowing you to render Markdown to print to your Terminal
JavaScript
500
319 commits
updated Sep 2, 2025
Custom Renderer for marked allowing for printing Markdown to the Terminal. Supports pretty tables, syntax highlighting for javascript, and overriding all colors and styles.
Could for instance be used to print usage information.
npm install marked marked-terminal
import { marked } from 'marked';
import { markedTerminal } from 'marked-terminal';
marked.use(markedTerminal([options][, highlightOptions]));
marked.parse('# Hello \n This is **markdown** printed in the `terminal`');
const marked = require('marked');
const TerminalRenderer = require('marked-terminal');
marked.setOptions({
// Define custom renderer
renderer: new TerminalRenderer()
});
// Show the parsed data
console.log(
marked('# Hello \n This is **markdown** printed in the `terminal`')
);
This will produce the following:

Also have support for syntax highlighting using cli-highlight. You can override highlighting defaults by passing in settings as the second argument for TerminalRenderer.
Having the following markdown input:
```js
var foo = function(bar) {
console.log(bar);
};
foo('Hello');
```
...we will convert it into terminal format:
// Show the parsed data
console.log(marked(exampleSource));
This will produce the following:

Constructur: new TerminalRenderer([options][, highlightOptions])
optionsOptional Used to override default styling.
Default values are:
var defaultOptions = {
// Colors
code: chalk.yellow,
blockquote: chalk.gray.italic,
html: chalk.gray,
heading: chalk.green.bold,
firstHeading: chalk.magenta.underline.bold,
hr: chalk.reset,
listitem: chalk.reset,
table: chalk.reset,
paragraph: chalk.reset,
strong: chalk.bold,
em: chalk.italic,
codespan: chalk.yellow,
del: chalk.dim.gray.strikethrough,
link: chalk.blue,
href: chalk.blue.underline,
// Formats the bulletpoints and numbers for lists
list: function (body, ordered) {/* ... */},
// Reflow and print-out width
width: 80, // only applicable when reflow is true
reflowText: false,
// Should it prefix headers?
showSectionPrefix: true,
// Whether or not to undo marked escaping
// of enitities (" -> " etc)
unescape: true,
// Whether or not to show emojis
emoji: true,
// Options passed to cli-table3
tableOptions: {},
// The size of tabs in number of spaces or as tab characters
tab: 3 // examples: 4, 2, \t, \t\t
image: function (href, title, text) {} // function for overriding the default image handling.
};
marked.setOptions({
renderer: new TerminalRenderer({
codespan: chalk.underline.magenta
})
});
highlightOptionsOptions passed into cli-highlight. See readme there to see what options to pass.
See more examples
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A Renderer for the marked project. Allowing you to render Markdown to print to your Terminal
JavaScript
500
319 commits
updated Sep 2, 2025
Custom Renderer for marked allowing for printing Markdown to the Terminal. Supports pretty tables, syntax highlighting for javascript, and overriding all colors and styles.
Could for instance be used to print usage information.
npm install marked marked-terminal
import { marked } from 'marked';
import { markedTerminal } from 'marked-terminal';
marked.use(markedTerminal([options][, highlightOptions]));
marked.parse('# Hello \n This is **markdown** printed in the `terminal`');
const marked = require('marked');
const TerminalRenderer = require('marked-terminal');
marked.setOptions({
// Define custom renderer
renderer: new TerminalRenderer()
});
// Show the parsed data
console.log(
marked('# Hello \n This is **markdown** printed in the `terminal`')
);
This will produce the following:

Also have support for syntax highlighting using cli-highlight. You can override highlighting defaults by passing in settings as the second argument for TerminalRenderer.
Having the following markdown input:
```js
var foo = function(bar) {
console.log(bar);
};
foo('Hello');
```
...we will convert it into terminal format:
// Show the parsed data
console.log(marked(exampleSource));
This will produce the following:

Constructur: new TerminalRenderer([options][, highlightOptions])
optionsOptional Used to override default styling.
Default values are:
var defaultOptions = {
// Colors
code: chalk.yellow,
blockquote: chalk.gray.italic,
html: chalk.gray,
heading: chalk.green.bold,
firstHeading: chalk.magenta.underline.bold,
hr: chalk.reset,
listitem: chalk.reset,
table: chalk.reset,
paragraph: chalk.reset,
strong: chalk.bold,
em: chalk.italic,
codespan: chalk.yellow,
del: chalk.dim.gray.strikethrough,
link: chalk.blue,
href: chalk.blue.underline,
// Formats the bulletpoints and numbers for lists
list: function (body, ordered) {/* ... */},
// Reflow and print-out width
width: 80, // only applicable when reflow is true
reflowText: false,
// Should it prefix headers?
showSectionPrefix: true,
// Whether or not to undo marked escaping
// of enitities (" -> " etc)
unescape: true,
// Whether or not to show emojis
emoji: true,
// Options passed to cli-table3
tableOptions: {},
// The size of tabs in number of spaces or as tab characters
tab: 3 // examples: 4, 2, \t, \t\t
image: function (href, title, text) {} // function for overriding the default image handling.
};
marked.setOptions({
renderer: new TerminalRenderer({
codespan: chalk.underline.magenta
})
});
highlightOptionsOptions passed into cli-highlight. See readme there to see what options to pass.
See more examples
52,705 followers · starred Nov 2025
951 followers · starred Apr 2026
230 followers · starred Sep 2016
1,263 followers · starred Aug 2015