remark

Remark is a term with several related meanings. As a noun, a remark is a statement or observation, typically made in response to a topic or event. It can be brief or analytical, and it may function as praise, critique, or simply a note. The verb form remark means to notice or mention something, as in “she remarked on the weather.” Etymologically, the word derives from Old French remarque or remarquer, from Latin roots linked to marking or noting again.

In computing, Remark is also the name of an open‑source software project: a Markdown processor and tooling system for Node.js, part of the unified ecosystem. Remark parses Markdown input into an abstract syntax tree and can convert it back to Markdown or to other formats. It is designed to be extended with plugins, enabling linting, transformation, and format conversion. A typical workflow uses components such as remark-parse for parsing, various plugins for transformation, and remark-stringify or other compilers (for example to HTML) for output. The project emphasizes a modular, plugin‑driven approach to handling Markdown, allowing customization of parsing rules, validation, and formatting.

Remark is widely used in documentation workflows, content pipelines, and static site generation where Markdown serves as the source format. Its extensible architecture and the surrounding ecosystem of remark packages make it a common choice for projects that require customizable Markdown processing, validation, or transformation.