rehype-pretty-code
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rehype-highlight is another plugin for the rehype ecosystem that provides syntax highlighting for code blocks. It uses the popular highlight.js library under the hood. Compared to rehype-pretty-code, rehype-highlight is more focused on highlighting and does not offer as many customization options for themes and styles.
Prism is a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind. It is a standalone library that can be used with various build tools and frameworks. While it offers a wide range of language support and themes, it requires more manual setup compared to the seamless integration of rehype-pretty-code with the rehype ecosystem.
Shiki is a beautiful syntax highlighter that uses TextMate grammar and VS Code themes. It is known for its performance and accuracy in highlighting. Shiki can be used in a similar context as rehype-pretty-code, but it is more focused on providing accurate and fast syntax highlighting with VS Code themes.
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Beautiful code for your MD/MDX docs.
The npm package rehype-pretty-code receives a total of 347,421 weekly downloads. As such, rehype-pretty-code popularity was classified as popular.
We found that rehype-pretty-code demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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