Speed Highlight JS

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• 🪶 Lightweight (~2kB for the core + ~1kB by language)
• ⚡ Fast (faster than prism and highlight.js on average)
• 🧹 Minimal Codebase

Simple setup 🚀

Web

Style/theme (in the header of your html file):

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/path/dist/themes/default.css">
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In the body of your html file:

<div class='shj-lang-[code-language]'>[code]</div>
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<code class='shj-lang-[code-language]'>[inline code]</code>
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Highlight the code (in your javascript):

import { highlightAll } from '/path/dist/index.js';
highlightAll();
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Auto language detection

import { highlightElement } from '../dist/index.js';
import { detectLanguage } from '../dist/detect.js';

elm.textContent = code;
highlightElement(elm, detectLanguage(code));
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Load custom language

import { loadLanguage } from '../dist/index.js';

loadLanguage('language-name', customLanguage);
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CDN

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/@speed-highlight/core/dist/themes/default.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/speed-highlight/core/dist/themes/default.css">
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import ... from 'https://unpkg.com/@speed-highlight/core/dist/index.js';
import ... from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/speed-highlight/core/dist/index.js';
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Deno

Use the deno module

import { setTheme, printHighlight } from 'https://deno.land/x/speed_highlight_js/dist/terminal.js';

await setTheme('[theme-name]');
printHighlight('console.log("hello")', 'js');
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Node

Use the npm package

npm i @speed-highlight/core
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const { setTheme, printHighlight } = require('@speed-highlight/core/terminal');

setTheme('[theme-name]');
printHighlight('console.log("hello")', 'js');
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Migrating from prism

Speed-highlight JS is a lighter and faster version of prism that share a similar API

Style

Remove the prism stylesheet in the head of your html file Clone this repository or use a cdn to load our stylesheet

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Script

For the script part remove the prism.js script and replace it by a import and a call to highlightAll

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If you want to highlight only a specific element you can use the highlightElement function instead

Code block

For the code blocks replace the <pre><code> by only one <div> And use shj-lang- prefix instead of language- for the class property

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p { color: red }
+
p { color: red }
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And for inline code block you just have to change the class property

-p { color: red }
+p { color: red }
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Languages supported 🌐

Name	Class name	Support	Language detection
asm	shj-lang-asm		✅
bash	shj-lang-bash		✅
brainfuck	shj-lang-bf	increment, operator, print, comment	❌
c	shj-lang-c		✅
css	shj-lang-css	comment, str, selector, units, function, ...	✅
csv	shj-lang-csv	punctuation, ...	❌
diff	shj-lang-diff		✅
docker	shj-lang-docker		✅
git	shj-lang-git	comment, insert, deleted, string, ...	❌
go	shj-lang-go		✅
html	shj-lang-html		✅
http	shj-lang-http	keywork, string, punctuation, variable, version	✅
ini	shj-lang-ini		❌
java	shj-lang-java		✅
javascipt	shj-lang-js	basic syntax, regex, jsdoc, json, template literals	✅
jsdoc	shj-lang-jsdoc		❌
json	shj-lang-json	string, number, bool, ...	❌
leanpub-md	shj-lang-leanpub-md		❌
log	shj-lang-log	number, string, comment, errors	❌
lua	shj-lang-lua		✅
makefile	shj-lang-make		✅
markdown	shj-lang-md		✅
perl	shj-lang-pl		✅
plain	shj-lang-plain		❌
python	shj-lang-py		✅
regex	shj-lang-regex	count, set, ...	❌
rust	shj-lang-rs		✅
sql	shj-lang-sql	number, string, function, ...	✅
todo	shj-lang-todo		❌
toml	shj-lang-toml	comment, table, string, bool, variable	❌
typescript	shj-lang-ts	js syntax, ts keyword, types	✅
uri	shj-lang-uri		✅
xml	shj-lang-xml		✅
yaml	shj-lang-yaml	comment, numbers, variable, string, bool	❌

Themes 🌈

A modern theme by default

Name	Terminal	Web
default	✅	✅
github-dark	❌	✅
github-light	❌	✅
github-dim	❌	✅
atom-dark	✅	✅
visual-studio-dark	❌	✅