What is highlight.js?
It works in the browser as well as on the server. It works with pretty much any markup, doesn’t depend on any framework, and has automatic language detection.
highlight.js is a tool in the Text Editor category of a tech stack.
highlight.js is an open source tool with 23.1K GitHub stars and 3.5K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to highlight.js's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses highlight.js?
Companies
31 companies reportedly use highlight.js in their tech stacks, including Tipoff, DocTub, and StickyKnow.io.
Developers
128 developers on StackShare have stated that they use highlight.js.
highlight.js Integrations
highlight.js's Features
- Import Highlight.js as a CommonJS-module
- The default import imports all languages
- Custom Initialization
highlight.js Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to highlight.js?
Prism
It is a lightweight, beautiful and extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind. It’s used in thousands of websites, including some of those you visit daily.
Prettier
Prettier is an opinionated code formatter. It enforces a consistent style by parsing your code and re-printing it with its own rules that take the maximum line length into account, wrapping code when necessary.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
