A beautiful and powerful syntax highlighter based on TextMate grammar for accurate code highlighting.
Shiki is a syntax highlighter that uses TextMate grammars to provide accurate and beautiful code highlighting for web applications. It solves the problem of inconsistent or low-quality syntax highlighting by leveraging the same grammars used in VS Code, ensuring precise tokenization across hundreds of programming languages.
Developers building documentation sites, blogs, or developer tools that require high-quality code snippets, as well as static site generator users looking for reliable syntax highlighting.
Developers choose Shiki for its editor-grade accuracy, extensive theme support, and zero runtime overhead, making it a performant and visually consistent solution compared to regex-based highlighters.
A beautiful yet powerful syntax highlighter
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Uses TextMate grammars from VS Code, ensuring precise tokenization for hundreds of languages as highlighted in the README, replicating modern editor quality.
Includes built-in themes like GitHub Dark and supports custom themes, enabling consistent and beautiful styling across code snippets without extra CSS work.
Highlights code at build time to generate static HTML, eliminating client-side JavaScript and improving page load performance, as stated in the features.
Offers official integrations for Vue, React, and static site generators, simplifying setup in modern web projects and reducing implementation time.
Limited to static highlighting during build, making it unsuitable for dynamic applications that need to highlight code on the fly, a trade-off mentioned in the philosophy.
Customizing grammars or themes requires understanding TextMate grammar syntax, which can be challenging and time-consuming for developers without prior experience.
Processing TextMate grammars for many languages can increase build times, especially in large projects with extensive code snippets, impacting deployment speed.