code-colors
v2.3.1
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Code syntax highlighting for the web
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code-colors
Code syntax highlighting for the web. Uses Prism for parsing.
Why I created this library? I needed a simple React component that highlights code, but there was none which satisfied the following requirements:
- Dynamically loads highligting parsers.
- Executs highlighting in a web worker.
- While code is parsed in the worker, renders raw un-highlighted source without any flickering.
- A simple to use React component.
Installation
npm install code-colors
Usage
Simply call the tokenizeAsync
function with the code and language you want to highlight.
import {tokenizeAsync} from 'code-colors';
const code = `console.log('Hello, World!');`;
const language = 'javascript';
const tokens = await tokenizeAsync(code, language);
console.log(tokens);
It will automatically download popular Prism languages from the CDN.