Web Developer living in Japan, Weekend OSS maintainer, Author of Marp: Markdown presentation ecosystem | tweets are my own
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Marp Core v5 RC now supports some mermaid diagrams, but its dependency beautiful-mermaid looks unmaintained.
Context free rendering
Sync API
Full mermaid diagram types
Zero dependency
Used by Obsidian
There are reasons to switch to Pele 🕹️
Prefer this one 👀
This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax.
- 100-500× faster than mermaid.js
- 6× smaller bundle
- No dependencies
- Easy to theme
- Responsive to device width
In pursuit of making Obsidian insanely fast and cohesively designed, I always found the Mermaid library to be too big, too slow, and too hard to theme. Pele will be the new renderer in the next version of Obsidian, but you can start using it now.
Pele [ˈpɛlɛ] is named after the goddess of volcanoes and fire. It's open source under the MIT license. Try the playground!
Still it's simple: review code highlight definitions 🖍️
github.com/marp-team/marp-co…
I also created a migration skill for coding agents. Get ready for the upcoming Marp! 🤖
github.com/orgs/marp-team/di…
Marp CLI v4.5.1 is out now 🎉
github.com/marp-team/marp-cl…
Up to 30% smaller standalone binaries — roughly back to where they were 3 years ago ✂️
Also includes support for user-installed Marp Core v5 RC.
If you want to test Marp Core v5 RC with the latest Marp CLI, please check out the updated announcement on our discussion forum 📣
github.com/orgs/marp-team/di…
Release Candidate: Marp Core v5 📢
➤ 🧜 Mermaid diagrams
➤ 🖍️ New syntax highlight: Shiki
➤ 🪽 A lightweight core by default
➤ 🔢 MathJax v4
➤ 💤 Lazy-load optional dependencies
An official announcement is available on GitHub Discussions:
github.com/orgs/marp-team/di…
v5.0.0 release notes:
github.com/marp-team/marp-co…
Marpit is too bare-bones, while Marp Core feels too heavy 😵💫
The next Marp Core will be slim by default and much easier to embed! 🪶
ALT Horizontal bar chart comparing sizes: Marp Core v4.4.0 is 3.39 MiB, Marp Core v5 is 0.53 MiB, and Marpit v3.2.2 is 0.36 MiB. Marp Core v5 is about one-sixth the size of v4.4.0 and only slightly larger than Marpit.
増田やのうてIssue上げてｗ（最新版では改善されてます）
anond.hatelabo.jp/2026071515…
Don't masuda. Feel free to report an issue! (The latest release of Marp has fixed this as a side effect of improved Firefox compatibility)
A common misconception is "Marp requires VS Code"; it can actually be used "anywhere" powered by the ecosystem projects, seriously 😉
Marp for VS Code also updated to v3.6.0, including Marp CLI v4.5.0 ✨
marketplace.visualstudio.com…
Marp CLI v4.5.0 is out!! 🎉
⚙️ Marp Core v4.4.0
📦 Standalone binaries now support ES modules
🦊 Improved PDF rendering with Firefox
⚡️ Faster CLI startup
Release note 📝
github.com/marp-team/marp-cl…