Shiki Alternatives

Shiki is described as 'A beautiful syntax highlighter based on TextMate grammar, accurate and powerful' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Shiki for a variety of platforms, including Self-Hosted, Ruby, Web-based, JavaScript and Go (Programming Language) apps. The best Shiki alternative is prism.js, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Shiki are highlight.js, Lolight, Chroma (Syntax Highlighter) and Re-Highlight.

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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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

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

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

    • prism.js is Free and Open SourceShiki is also Free and Open Source
  2. 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
     
  3. 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
     
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    Chroma takes source code and other structured text and converts it into syntax highlighted HTML, ANSI-coloured text, etc.

    11 Chroma (Syntax Highlighter) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)
     
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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
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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    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

    Platforms

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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. 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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