@tiptap/extension-code-block
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Tiptap is a headless wrapper around ProseMirror – a toolkit for building rich text WYSIWYG editors, which is already in use at many well-known companies such as New York Times, The Guardian or Atlassian.
Documentation can be found on the Tiptap website.
Tiptap is open sourced software licensed under the MIT license.
Prism is a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter. It is a standalone library that can be used to highlight code blocks in any web application. Compared to @tiptap/extension-code-block, Prism is more focused on syntax highlighting and does not provide rich text editing capabilities.
Highlight.js is a popular library for syntax highlighting. It automatically detects the language of the code block and applies the appropriate highlighting. While it is similar to the syntax highlighting feature of @tiptap/extension-code-block, Highlight.js is a standalone library and does not integrate with rich text editors like Tiptap.
CodeMirror is a versatile text editor implemented in JavaScript for the browser. It is specialized for editing code and comes with a wide range of features including syntax highlighting, autocompletion, and more. Unlike @tiptap/extension-code-block, CodeMirror is a full-fledged code editor rather than an extension for a rich text editor.
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The npm package @tiptap/extension-code-block receives a total of 9,268,916 weekly downloads. As such, @tiptap/extension-code-block popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @tiptap/extension-code-block demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 6 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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