Ecosystem

Everything that speaks Carve, grouped by role. All of it lives under the markup-carve organization. For live corpus conformance numbers of the reference parsers, see Implementation Comparison.

Parsers

The engines that turn Carve source into an AST and HTML. Conformance is measured against the shared spec corpus; the bar for "a Carve implementation" is Tier-1 core (native syntax) - see Build Your Own Implementation.

Project	Language	Status
carve-js	TypeScript	Reference implementation. Tier-1 corpus passing.
carve-rs	Rust	Parser + HTML renderer with a carve CLI. Tier-1 corpus passing.
carve-php	PHP	Forked from djot-php; Carve syntax implemented, corpus passing. Powers the PHP sandbox and wp-carve.
carve-wasm	WASM	Browser/Node bindings for carve-rs. Early.

Language bindings

Higher-level bindings and satellite packages that wrap one of the engine implementations.

Project	Language	Notes
carve-go	Go	Pure-Go module via wazero + WASI over carve-rs.
carve-py	Python	PyO3 bindings over carve-rs. Enables MkDocs, Pelican, and other Python pipelines.
carve-rb	Ruby	Native gem via magnus over carve-rs.
carve-components	React / Vue	UI components for rendering Carve markup in the browser.
carve-wysiwyg	TypeScript	WYSIWYG editor / live sandbox (Tiptap + carve-grammars).

Editor support

Syntax highlighting, structural editing, and diagnostics inside editors.

Project	Target	Status
vscode-carve	VS Code	Highlighting, snippets, live preview.
emacs-carve	Emacs	Major mode for .crv files.
vim-carve	Vim / Neovim	Syntax highlighting + tree-sitter grammar.
sublime-carve	Sublime Text	Syntax package for .crv files.
sublime-carve-lsp	Sublime Text	LSP helper package - diagnostics, hover and symbols via the Carve language server.
helix-carve	Helix	Editor support for Carve.
intellij-carve	JetBrains IDEs	Highlighting, live preview, and export for IntelliJ, PhpStorm, etc.
zed-carve	Zed	Editor support.
tree-sitter-carve	Tree-sitter	Grammar for highlighting and structural editing.
carve-lsp	LSP	Language server - syntax diagnostics, Djot/Markdown collision hints. Early.

Framework integrations

Carve embedded in another tool or framework.

Project	Host	Status
mkdocs-carve	MkDocs	Plugin: renders .crv pages in MkDocs documentation sites.
jekyll-carve	Jekyll	Converter plugin for .crv pages.
eleventy-carve	Eleventy (11ty)	Plugin for processing Carve source files.
astro-carve	Astro	Integration for importing .crv pages.
hugo-carve	Hugo	Preprocessor that converts .crv content to HTML, via carve-go.
symfony-carve	Symfony	Bundle to render Carve markup to HTML via carve-php.
symfony-carve-demo	Symfony	Demo app showcasing the symfony-carve bundle.
laravel-carve	Laravel	Integration with Blade directives, services, validation, and caching.
laravel-carve-demo	Laravel	Runnable app demonstrating every feature of laravel-carve.
shopware-carve	Shopware 6	Twig filters, CMS element, product/category fields, admin live preview, mail, and a CLI.
wp-carve	WordPress	Plugin on the carve-php engine - live preview, multi-format paste, REST API.
carve-grammars	Tiptap	Editor kit and Carve serializer.
vite-plugin-carve	Vite	Import .crv documents as rendered HTML. Early.

PDF / output

Render Carve documents to formats beyond HTML.

Project	Output	Notes
carve-pdf	PDF	Render .crv documents to clean, paginated PDFs.
carve-hexapdf	PDF	Carve to PDF via the pure-Ruby HexaPDF engine (over carve-lang / carve-rb).
pandoc-carve	LaTeX, Typst, DOCX, PDF, ...	Carve AST to Pandoc JSON bridge; reaches every pandoc writer and makes {=latex}-style raw spans fire.

Format bridges

Conversions between the Carve AST and another document model, in both directions. These are keyed by bridge rather than by repository, because one of them lives inside an engine rather than in a package of its own. Why the boundary sits at the AST, and what a bridge owes its caller: Format bridges.

Bridge	Model	Runtime	Carve to it	It to Carve
pandoc-carve	Pandoc AST	Node + pandoc	✅ every pandoc writer	✅ everything pandoc reads
carve-grammars	ProseMirror / Tiptap	Node	✅ carveToProseMirror	✅ serializeToCarve
carve-php	ProseMirror / Tiptap	PHP	✅ ProseMirrorRenderer	✅ ProseMirrorToCarve

The same editor model is reached from two runtimes on purpose: an editor needs the model in whatever runtime the application already has. The carve-php pair is what lets a Tiptap editor in the browser and PHP rendering in a queue worker share one stored document with no Node runtime anywhere in the pipeline. carve-grammars owns the shared CarveKit schema and the name map both sides read.

carve-js and carve-rs have no bridge of their own; their prosemirror HTML import adapter is a different job at a different stage.

Extensions

Opt-in extensions that add non-core syntax.

Project	Target	Notes
carve-php-media-embed	carve-php	Embeds audio/video from 30+ providers via dereuromark/media-embed.
carve-php-chat	carve-php	Renders Carve to chat-platform markup (WhatsApp, Slack, Telegram, Discord) via data-driven flavor definitions.

Benchmarks

Project	Description
carve-bench	Cross-engine render performance benchmarks (carve-js / carve-php / carve-rs).

AI / agent tooling

Skills and context packs that teach AI coding agents to author Carve.

Project	Target	Status
carve-skill	Claude Code / agents	Authoring skill - a syntax card, the Markdown/Djot trap list, and a carve lint validation loop so agents write valid .crv the first time.

Resources

Project	Description
awesome-carve	Curated list of Carve tools, libraries, and resources.
PHP Sandbox	Powerful live sandbox on the carve-php engine - explore syntax and extensions, inspect output, and share snippets via pastebin-style links.

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Building something new? See Build Your Own Implementation. External tools are welcome in awesome-carve even if they do not live in the org.