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stackexchange/pagedown
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markdown converter, based on showdown

v1.1.0(8y ago)02.1k↓66.7%2MITJavaScript

Since Jun 7Pushed 8y ago1 watchersCompare

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pagedown
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This is a fork of the official StackExchange pagedown repository. The sole intent of this fork is to provide a Composer package file. Otherwise, it aims to be as up to date as possible with the upstream repo.

###  Health Score

31

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LowBetter than 68% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community13

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 92.3% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3258d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/b76588c1d06ed54f5f5fe06e466d044b0527eb6e1b68a8e3dccd13e447fa43eb?d=identicon)[kael-shipman](/maintainers/kael-shipman)

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Top Contributors

[![balpha](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1763000?v=4)](https://github.com/balpha "balpha (12 commits)")[![krtek4](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/963772?v=4)](https://github.com/krtek4 "krtek4 (1 commits)")

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Tags

markdown

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