@babel/highlight
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Package description
The @babel/highlight package is a syntax highlighter for JavaScript code. It can be used to highlight JavaScript syntax with themes for readability, often for displaying code in documentation or web applications.
Syntax highlighting
This feature allows you to highlight JavaScript code. You can pass in a string of code and an options object to specify the theme, and it returns an object with a 'value' property containing the highlighted code.
const { highlight } = require('@babel/highlight');
const code = 'const x = 1;';
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Changelog
v7.24.2 (2024-03-19)
babel-code-frame, babel-highlight
FORCE_COLOR=0 behavior (@nicolo-ribaudo)Readme
Syntax highlight JavaScript strings for output in terminals.
See our website @babel/highlight for more information.
Using npm:
npm install --save-dev @babel/highlight
or using yarn:
yarn add @babel/highlight --dev
FAQs
Syntax highlight JavaScript strings for output in terminals.
The npm package @babel/highlight receives a total of 43,087,744 weekly downloads. As such, @babel/highlight popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @babel/highlight demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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