Lolight Alternatives

Lolight is described as '3kB tokenizer and syntax highlighter. No language specific syntax support, just a CSS stylable breakdown into tokens. Default styles included' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Lolight for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Mac, Windows, Linux and Web-based apps. The best Lolight alternative is Zsh Syntax Highlighting, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Lolight are Pygments, highlight.js, Inkjet (Syntax Highlighting) and Bright.

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  1. This package provides syntax highlighting for the shell zsh. It enables highlighting of commands whilst they are typed at a zsh prompt into an interactive terminal. This helps in reviewing commands before running them, particularly in catching syntax errors.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • zsh
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  2. Pygments icon
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    Generic syntax highlighter suitable for use in code hosting, forums, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  3. highlight.js icon
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    Highlight.js is a client-side Syntax Highlighting library in Javascript.It can be used in Pastebin Services or in Code Examples.Because of running on client side,it needs less bandwidth than server-side Syntax Highlighting libraries.

    15 highlight.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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  4. A batteries-included syntax highlighting library for Rust, based on tree-sitter.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  5. Bright icon
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    React Server Component for syntax highlighting.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  6. Torchlight is a VS Code-compatible syntax highlighter that requires no JavaScript, supports every language, every VS Code theme, line highlighting, git diffing, and more.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  7. This package is an open source version of GitHub’s closed-source PrettyLights project (more on that later). It supports 600+ grammars and its extremely high quality. It uses TextMate grammars which are also used in popular editors (SublimeText, Atom, VS Code, &c).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • npm
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  8. code-prettify is a syntax-coloring script to make source-code snippets in HTML prettier.

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    • Self-Hosted
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  9. Shiki icon
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    A beautiful syntax highlighter based on TextMate grammar, accurate and powerful.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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  10. Rouge icon
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    Rouge is a pure Ruby syntax highlighter. It can highlight over 200 different languages, and output HTML or ANSI 256-color text. Its HTML output is compatible with stylesheets designed for Pygments.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Ruby
    • Self-Hosted
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  11. Re-Highlight is a powerful syntax highlighter, which is a sub-module of the Reqable project. Re-Highlight can highlight a text by simply defining a syntax file. And Re-Highlight has built-in syntax highlighting rules for dozens of programming languages, it is easy to make your...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
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