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My colleague Seb wrote a cool package that adds tags and classes to code blocks in html, so they can be highlighted with css.

I created a spatie/commonmark-highlighter package that supports higlighting with CommonMark. After you register two custom renderers, all code blocks will receive a set of tags and classes, so they're already prepped to be highlighted by CSS when your content arrives in the browser.

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For the League's CommonMark parser, we chose to prioritize extensibility over performance. This led to a decoupled object-oriented design which users can easily and customize. This has enabled others to build their own integrations, extensions, and other custom projects.

The library's performance is still decent - the end user probably can't differentiate between 42ms and 2ms (you should be caching your rendered Markdown anyway). Nevertheless, we still wanted to optimize our parser as much as possible without compromising our primary goals. This blog post explains how we used Blackfire to do just that.

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https://github.com/thephpleague/commonmark

This Markdown parser is released by the League of Extraordinary Packages, a group of developers who have banded together to build solid, well tested PHP packages using modern coding standards.

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