Rouge Alternatives

Rouge is described as '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' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Rouge for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Web-based, Mac, Windows and Linux apps. The best Rouge alternative is prism.js, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Rouge are Pygments, highlight.js, Lolight and Bright.

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  1. prism.js icon
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    Prism is a lightweight, extensible syntax highlighter, built with modern web standards in mind.

    13 prism.js alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
    • prism.js is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Rouge.

    • prism.js is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Rouge.

    • prism.js is Free and Open SourceRouge is also Free and Open Source
  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
     
    • Pygments is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Rouge.

    • Pygments is Free and Open SourceRouge is also Free and Open Source
  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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  4. Lolight icon
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    Lolight is a 3kB tokenizer and syntax highlighter. No language specific syntax support, just a CSS stylable breakdown into tokens. Default styles included.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  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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    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.

    12 Torchlight.dev alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  7. CodeRay icon
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    Fast and easy syntax highlighting for selected languages, written in Ruby.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
     
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    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

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    Chroma takes source code and other structured text and converts it into syntax highlighted HTML, ANSI-coloured text, etc.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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    A batteries-included syntax highlighting library for Rust, based on tree-sitter.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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