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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A beautiful syntax highlighter based on TextMate grammar, accurate and powerful.

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Shiki alternatives page was last updated Sep 13, 2024
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  1. prism.js icon

    prism.js

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    css highlight themes

    prism.js Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

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    • 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
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    highlight.js

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    highlight.js screenshot 1

    highlight.js Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

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  4. Lolight icon

    Lolight

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • DE flagGermany
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    Lolight screenshot 1

    Lolight Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting
    2.  MIT License

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  5. Chroma (Syntax Highlighter)

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

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Go (Programming Language)

    Chroma (Syntax Highlighter) Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    Chroma (Syntax Highlighter) VS Shiki

     

  6. Re-Highlight

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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...

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    Re-Highlight screenshot 1

    Re-Highlight Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

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  7. Rouge icon

    Rouge

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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.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Ruby
    • Self-Hosted
    Rouge screenshot 1

    Rouge Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

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  9. Bright icon

    Bright

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    React Server Component for syntax highlighting.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    Bright screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

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  10. Torchlight.dev icon

    Torchlight.dev

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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.

    License model

    • Freemium • Proprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    Torchlight.dev screenshot 1

    Properties

    1.  Support for Themes

    Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

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  11. starry-night

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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).

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Country of Origin

    • NL flagNetherlands
    • European Union flagEU

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • npm
    starry-night screenshot 1

    starry-night Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

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  12. Inkjet (Syntax Highlighting) icon

    Inkjet (Syntax Highlighting)

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    A batteries-included syntax highlighting library for Rust, based on tree-sitter.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted

    Inkjet (Syntax Highlighting) Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    Inkjet (Syntax Highlighting) VS Shiki

     
  13. CodeRay icon

    CodeRay

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    Fast and easy syntax highlighting for selected languages, written in Ruby.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Ruby
    CodeRay screenshot 1

    CodeRay Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

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  14. Rainbow (Syntax Highlighting) icon

    Rainbow (Syntax Highlighting)

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    Simple syntax highlighting library written in JavaScript.

    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • JavaScript
    Rainbow (Syntax Highlighting) screenshot 1

    Rainbow (Syntax Highlighting) Features

    1.  Syntax Highlighting

    Rainbow (Syntax Highlighting) VS Shiki

     
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