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Shiki 式
A beautiful syntax highlighter based on TextMate grammars, accurate and powerful.
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A beautiful Syntax Highlighter.
The npm package shiki receives a total of 9,202,314 weekly downloads. As such, shiki popularity was classified as popular.
We found that shiki 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.
Package last updated on 09 Mar 2026
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