This is really useful, thanks!

Is there a subset of markdown (preferably with an implementation in Javascript to render it as HTML) that's limited to just the basic stuff like bold, underline, italics, links, quotes, and code elements? I don't need images, headers, html tags, tables, horizontal lines and the rest.

It's not so much about the restrictions I'm worried about. My research has shown that showdownjs is one of the lightest (~30kB) markdown to HTML rendering libraries in JS, but 30kB is still too large for my application. I would trade the above mentioned features for a smaller file size.

Any suggestions? I know that I can probably write my own implementation, but I'd rather rely on battle-tested libraries instead of rolling out my own.