KaTeX

KaTeX is a cross-browser JavaScript library that displays mathematical notation in web browsers. It puts special emphasis on being fast and easy to use.^[2]

It was initially developed by Khan Academy,^[3] and became one of the top five trending projects on GitHub in September 2014.^[4]

Features

KaTeX rendering of math claims to be:

Fast: It renders its math synchronously and doesn't need to reflow the page.
Print quality: Its layout is based on TeX.
Self contained: It has no dependencies, so it can be easily bundled.
Capable of server-side rendering: it has an option to generate HTML on the server (so, for example, one can pre-render expressions using Node.js and send them as plain HTML).

KaTeX implements a smaller subset of LaTeX's mathematical notation features than MathJax.^[2]^[5]

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^ Venkatesan, S. K. (2015). " $T e X$ as a three-stage rocket: Cookie-cutter page breaking". TUGboat. 36 (2). $T e X$ User's Group: 145–148.
^ Marvin, Rob (September 19, 2014), "Top 5 projects trending on GitHub this week", SD Times
^ "Support Table · KaTeX". katex.org. Retrieved 11 January 2024.