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Syntax-highlighter projects on GitHub

Libraries adding syntax coloring to web pages and terminals.

As of , the most-starred Syntax-highlighter projects on GitHub are bat (60.8K stars), delta (32.5K stars) and highlight.js (25K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 5 Syntax-highlighter repositories with 119.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was bat, with +18 stars in a day.

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119.6KStars in total
+27Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+18

bat

sharkdp/bat · ★ 60.8K

bat is a cat(1) clone that prints files in the terminal with syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup languages, plus Git modification markers in the sidebar.

+8

delta

dandavison/delta · ★ 32.5K

Delta is a syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, ripgrep and git blame output. It sits between git and your terminal, making the diffs you study every day easier to read.

+1

highlight.js

highlightjs/highlight.js · ★ 25K

A syntax highlighter written in JavaScript: it finds code on a page (or a string on a server) and renders it with language-aware coloring, detecting the language automatically. Zero dependencies.

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5 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · sharkdp/bat

    bat

    bat is a cat(1) clone that prints files in the terminal with syntax highlighting for a large number of programming and markup languages, plus Git modification markers in the sidebar.

    60.8K
  2. #2 · dandavison/delta

    delta

    Delta is a syntax-highlighting pager for git, diff, grep, ripgrep and git blame output. It sits between git and your terminal, making the diffs you study every day easier to read.

    32.5K
  3. #3 · highlightjs/highlight.js

    highlight.js

    A syntax highlighter written in JavaScript: it finds code on a page (or a string on a server) and renders it with language-aware coloring, detecting the language automatically. Zero dependencies.

    25K
  1. 4

    microlighter

    1.1Kdavatron5000/microlighter · JavaScript

    MicroLighter is a tiny, dependency-free syntax highlighter for the web. It colors code using the CSS Custom Highlight API and TextMate grammars, with no runtime dependencies and about 2 KiB compressed.

  2. 5

    twinkleplop

    238pngwn/twinkleplop · TypeScript

    Twinkleplop is a small, fast syntax highlighter and code authoring toolkit for the web: you install just the languages you need, generate HTML or tokens from your code, and style the output with CSS.

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