A beautiful syntax highlighter based on TextMate grammars, accurate and powerful.
Highlight.js is a widely-used syntax highlighter that supports many languages and themes. It is often considered to be less accurate than shiki in terms of tokenization because it uses regex-based matching rather than a proper language grammar.
Prism is another popular syntax highlighter that is lightweight and extensible. It supports a wide range of languages and plugins for additional functionality. Unlike shiki, Prism does not use the TextMate grammar for tokenization.
Rouge is a Ruby library for syntax highlighting that can be used in a variety of applications. It is not an npm package but can be used in Jekyll and other Ruby-based static site generators. It is known for its simplicity and ease of use compared to shiki.
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A beautiful Syntax Highlighter.
The npm package shiki receives a total of 4,738,579 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.
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