before i begin let me thank you and utopian for your support, i appreciate it alot

sorry for the brief submission, i am a little late on schedule and rushed things. basically, there are two different libraries, markup-tools for basic manipulations while markup-builder does absolute markup processing

these two libraries are great for handling Steem based markup as they process markup which is sometimes a mix of HTML and Markdown, they also sanitize markup against XSS, while building raw youtube urls into iframes, raw image links into img tags, raw mentions and hashtags into hyperlinked entities and more

they basically handle all the complete parsing, transformations, building and sanitizations of markup so you can just plug it into your project and play. they are also fully customizable giving the developer complete control of the resulting markup

they work in both browser and node.js, making them very compact. i am using them on peer query and they will be integrated into curator and adom and other projects. i believe the community could benefit from them

the difference between the two is: markup-tools is standalone and dependency free, does powerful text parsing, and building of HTML markup. however markup-builder offers a complete solution including markdown conversion, sanitizing and more. actually, markup-builder uses markup-tool as a dependency