What is Streamdown?

Streamdown is a drop-in replacement for react-markdown designed for AI-powered streaming markdown rendering. It supports GitHub Flavored Markdown (GFM), including task lists and tables, and handles common Markdown constructs. Built-in Tailwind typography classes provide consistent styling for headings, lists, code blocks, and other components.

CJK language support ensures correct emphasis handling with ideographic punctuation for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean content. Code blocks use Shiki for syntax highlighting and include copy and download buttons; LaTeX math is rendered via remark-math and KaTeX.

Mermaid diagrams are supported with theme options and fullscreen viewing, and streaming-oriented parsing handles unterminated Markdown blocks. Security hardening filters untrusted markdown and external origins, enabling reduced latency, streamlined authoring, and safer AI-driven content pipelines for developers and documentation teams.

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Streamdown's key features

Drop-in replacement for react-markdown designed for AI-powered streaming
Built-in Tailwind typography styles for Markdown components
Supports GitHub Flavored Markdown (tables, task lists, etc.)
CJK language support for correct emphasis with ideographic punctuation
Interactive code blocks using Shiki with copy and download buttons

Streamdown use cases

Build an AI-powered developer documentation viewer using Streamdown as a drop-in react-markdown replacement to stream-render large guides with GFM support, Shiki-highlighted code blocks (with copy/download) and secure parsing, all styled with Tailwind for a polished, production-ready site
Create interactive STEM lessons and tutorials that stream-render KaTeX math and Mermaid diagrams (with fullscreen viewer) for step-by-step visualizations, while supporting CJK emphasis for multilingual content and ensuring safe parsing of AI-generated Markdown
Enable a live AI-assisted knowledge base or blog that streams AI-generated Markdown responses in real time, provides syntax-highlighted code snippets with copy/download, filters unsafe content for security, and uses Tailwind styling to deliver consistent, embeddable pages