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

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 🌐

Themes 🌈

A modern theme by default

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.