refractor vs lowlight

refractor

Lightweight, robust, elegant virtual syntax highlighting using Prism (by wooorm)

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lowlight

Virtual syntax highlighting for virtual DOMs and non-HTML things (by wooorm)

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refractor		lowlight
	Project
1	Mentions	2
667	Stars	681
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	6.6
about 1 month ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

refractor

Posts with mentions or reviews of refractor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-20.

Is this code snippet styled with CSS? If so, any ideas on how it was styled this way?
11 projects | /r/css | 20 Nov 2021

lowlight

Posts with mentions or reviews of lowlight. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-20.

Is this code snippet styled with CSS? If so, any ideas on how it was styled this way?
11 projects | /r/css | 20 Nov 2021
The Pretty JSON Revolution
4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Feb 2021

In addition to outputting HTML, it could output JSON that could be rendered to HTML, the terminal, or JSX:
https://github.com/wooorm/lowlight#projects

What are some alternatives?

When comparing refractor and lowlight you can also consider the following projects:

PrismJS - Lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting.

leader-line - Draw a leader line in your web page.

gatsby-remark-vscode - Gatsby plugin to provide VS Code’s syntax highlighting to Markdown code fences

react-syntax-highlighter - syntax highlighting component for react with prismjs or highlightjs ast using inline styles

Highlight.js - JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.

react-native-syntax-highlighter - a syntax highlighter for react native using https://github.com/conorhastings/react-syntax-highlighter under the hood

hyperx - 🏷 - tagged template string virtual dom builder

Preact - ⚛️ Fast 3kB React alternative with the same modern API. Components & Virtual DOM.

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