Posts tagged with highlighting

Highlighting code blocks with league/commonmark

sebastiandedeyne.com

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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How to make syntax highlighting more useful

We think syntax highlighting makes the structure of code easier to understand. But as it stands, we highlight the obvious (like the word function) and leave most of the content in black. Rather than highlighting the differences between currentIndex and the keyword function, we could highlight the difference between currentIndex and randomIndex. Here’s what that might look like:1-TVSPOYO1z8GOVs3tuxNRqA
https://medium.com/@evnbr/coding-in-color-3a6db2743a1e

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