[!WARNING] This package is still a work in progress, it is not yet recommended for production use. Contributions are welcome! My goal is to eventually build this out as a near-drop-in replacement for react-syntax-highlighter

🎨 react-shiki

Syntax highlighting component and hook for react using Shiki

See the demo page for a version of this README with highlighted code blocks showcasing several Shiki themes!

Features

• 🖼️ Provides a ShikiHighlighter component for highlighting code as children, as well as a useShikiHighlighter hook for more flexibility
• 🔐 No dangerouslySetInnerHTML, output from Shiki is parsed using html-react-parser
• 📦 Supports all Shiki languages and themes
• 📚 Includes minimal default styles for code blocks
• 🚀 Shiki dynamically imports only the languages and themes used on a page, optimizing for performance
• 🖥️ ShikiHighlighter component displays a language label for each code block when showLanguage is set to true (default)
• 🎨 Users can customize the styling of the generated code blocks by passing a style object or a className

Installation

[pnpm|bun|yarn|npm] [add|install] react-shiki

Usage

You can use the ShikiHighlighter component, or the useShikiHighlighter hook to highlight code.

useShikiHighlighter is a hook that takes in the code to be highlighted, the language, and the theme, and returns the highlighted code as React elements. It's useful for users who want full control over the rendering of highlighted code.

const highlightedCode = useShikiHighlighter(code, language, theme);

The ShikiHighlighter component is imported in your project, with the code to be highlighted passed as it's children.

Shiki automatically handles dynamically importing only the languages and themes used on the page.

function CodeBlock() {
  return (
    <ShikiHighlighter language="jsx" theme="ayu-dark">
      {code.trim()}
    </ShikiHighlighter>
  );
}

The component accepts several props in addition to language and theme:

• showLanguage: boolean - Shows the language name in the top right corner of the code block.
• addDefaultStyles: boolean - Adds default styles (padding, overflow handling, and border-radius) to the code block.
• as: string - The component to be rendered. Defaults to 'pre'.
• className: string - Class name to be passed to the component.
• style: object - Style object to be passed to the component.

function Houston() {
  return (
    <ShikiHighlighter
      language="jsx"
      theme="houston"
      showLanguage={false}
      addDefaultStyles={true}
      as="div"
      style={{
        textAlign: 'left',
      }}
    >
      {code.trim()}
    </ShikiHighlighter>
  );
}

It can also be used with react-markdown:

import type { ReactNode } from 'react';
import type { BundledLanguage } from 'shiki';
import ShikiHighlighter, { isInlineCode, type Element } from 'react-shiki';

interface CodeHighlightProps {
  className?: string | undefined;
  children?: ReactNode | undefined;
  node?: Element | undefined;
}

export const CodeHighlight = ({
  className,
  children,
  node,
  ...props
}: CodeHighlightProps): JSX.Element => {
  const match = className?.match(/language-(\w+)/);
  // TODO: remove need for consumer use of BundledLanguage from shiki
  const language = match ? (match[1] as BundledLanguage) : undefined;

  const isInline: boolean | undefined = node ? isInlineCode(node) : undefined;

  return !isInline ? (
    <ShikiHighlighter
      language={language as BundledLanguage}
      theme={'houston'}
      {...props}>
      {String(children)}
    </ShikiHighlighter>
  ) : (
    <code className={className} {...props}>
      {children}
    </code>
  );
};

Pass CodeHighlight to react-markdown as a code component:

import ReactMarkdown from 'react-markdown';
import { CodeHighlight } from './CodeHighlight';

<ReactMarkdown
  components={{
    code: CodeHighlight,
  }}
>
  {markdown}
</ReactMarkdown>

This works great for highlighting in realtime on the client, I use it for an LLM chatbot UI, it renders markdown and highlights code in memoized chat messages:

const RenderedMessage = React.memo(({ message }: { message: Message }) => (
  <div className={cn(messageStyles[message.role])}>
    <ReactMarkdown components={{ code: CodeHighlight }}>
      {message.content}
    </ReactMarkdown>
  </div>
));

export const ChatMessages = ({ messages }: { messages: Message[] }) => {
  return (
    <div className='space-y-4'>
      {messages.map((message) => (
        <RenderedMessage key={message.id} message={message} />
      ))}
    </div>
  );
};