withspectrum / micro-code-analyser

micro-code-analyser

A tiny microservice to detect the language of a code snippet.

By running this microservice you won't have to add megabytes of JavaScript to your frontend just to detect what language a user is writing code in. This is especially useful for syntax highlighting in rich text/WYSIWYG editing scenarios!

Note: Language detection is done via the lang-detector module. This means micro-code-analyser currently supports JavaScript, C, C++, Python, Java, HTML, CSS, Ruby, Go and PHP.

Deployment

Your own micro-code-analyser is one click away!

You can also deploy with a single command from the terminal (assuming you have now installed):

now withspectrum/micro-code-analyser

Usage

To get the language of a code snippet POST the text to your micro-code-analyser instance. For example in JavaScript:

fetch('micro-code-analyser-asdf123.now.sh', {
  method: 'POST',
  body: 'const a = "b";',
}).then(res => {
  // The microservice will return a status of 400 for invalid
  // or undetected code snippets
  if (res.status < 200 || res.status > 400) return;

  return res.text();
}).then(language => {
  console.log(`The code was written in ${language}.`);
  // => "The code was written in JavaScript"
});

Development

git clone [email protected]:withspectrum/micro-code-analyser
cd micro-code-analyser
npm i
npm run dev

Updating

The master branch of this repository is what you will be deploying. To update to a new version with potential bugfixes, all you have to do is run the now command again and change the URL you call in your app! 👌

License

Licensed under the MIT License, Copyright ©️ 2017 Space Program Inc. See LICENSE.md for more information.