@speed-highlight/core

Speed-highlight JS

Light, fast, and easy to use, dependencies free javascript syntax highlighter, with automatic language detection, try it out here

Light 📦

• The core is about 1kB (gzipped & minified)
• Languages definition are from a few bytes to 1kB
• Themes are about 1kB
• Language rules needed are automatically loaded

Fast ⚡

Blazing fast highlighting using regex

Simple setup 🚀

Web

Style/theme (in the header of your html file):

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/path/dist/themes/default.css">

In the body of your html file:

<div class='shj-lang-[code-language]'>[code]</div>
or
<code class='shj-lang-[code-language]'>[inline code]</code>

Highlight the code (in your javascript):

import { highlightAll } from '/path/dist/index.js'
highlightAll();

Auto language detection

import { highlightElement } from '../src/index.js';
import { detectLanguage } from '../src/detect.js';

elm.textContent = code;
highlightElement(elm, detectLanguage(code));

CDN

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/@speed-highlight/core/dist/themes/default.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/speed-highlight/core/dist/themes/default.css">

import ... from 'https://unpkg.com/@speed-highlight/core/dist/index.js'
import ... from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/speed-highlight/core/dist/index.js'

Deno

Use the deno module

import { setTheme, printHighlight } from 'https://x.nest.land/speed_highlight_js/dist/term.js';

await setTheme('default');
printHighlight('console.log("hello")', 'js');

Node

Use the npm package

npm i @speed-highlight/core

const { setTheme, printHighlight } = require('@speed-highlight/core/dist/node/term.js');

setTheme('default')
printHighlight('console.log("hello")', 'js');

Languages supported 🌐

Name	Class name	Support	Language detection
bash	shj-lang-bash		✅
brainfuck	shj-lang-bf	increment, operator, print, comment	❌
css	shj-lang-css	comment, str, selector, units, function, ...	✅
csv	shj-lang-csv	punctuation, ...	❌
diff	shj-lang-diff		✅
git	shj-lang-git	comment, insert, deleted, string, ...	❌
html	shj-lang-html		✅
http	shj-lang-http	keywork, string, punctuation, variable, version	✅
ini	shj-lang-ini		❌
javascipt	shj-lang-js	basic syntax, regex, jsdoc, json, template literals	✅
jsdoc	shj-lang-jsdoc		❌
json	shj-lang-json	string, number, bool, ...	❌
leanpub-md	shj-lang-leanpub-md		❌
log	shj-lang-log	number, string, comment, errors	❌
lua	shj-lang-lua		✅
makefile	shj-lang-make		✅
markdown	shj-lang-md		✅
perl	shj-lang-pl		✅
plain	shj-lang-plain		❌
python	shj-lang-py		✅
regex	shj-lang-regex	count, set, ...	❌
sql	shj-lang-sql	number, string, function, ...	✅
todo	shj-lang-todo		❌
toml	shj-lang-toml	comment, table, string, bool, variable	❌
typescript	shj-lang-ts	js syntax, ts keyword, types	✅
uri	shj-lang-uri		✅
yaml	shj-lang-yaml	comment, numbers, variable, string, bool	❌
docker	shj-lang-docker		✅
c	shj-lang-c		✅
xml	shj-lang-xml		✅
rust	shj-lang-rs		✅
go	shj-lang-go		✅
java	shj-lang-java		✅
asm	shj-lang-asm		✅

Themes 🌈

A modern theme by default

Name	Terminal	Web
default	✅	✅
github-dark	❌	✅
github-light	❌	✅
github-dim	❌	✅
atom-dark	❌	✅
visual-studio-dark	❌	✅

Wiki 👀

Further in-depth documentation for the API and other topics is in our Wiki

License 📃

Shj is released under the Creative Commons Zero License. See our LICENSE file for details.