rehype VS prism-react-renderer

Compare rehype vs prism-react-renderer and see what are their differences.

rehype

HTML processor powered by plugins part of the @unifiedjs collective (by rehypejs)

prism-react-renderer

🖌️ Renders highlighted Prism output to React (+ theming & vendored Prism) (by FormidableLabs)
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rehype prism-react-renderer
17 13
1,579 1,782
3.1% 1.5%
6.7 7.3
22 days ago about 1 month ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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rehype

Posts with mentions or reviews of rehype. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-14.
  • I built an Markdown editor using Next.js and TailwindCss 🔥
    5 projects | dev.to | 14 Nov 2023
    Add Remark and Rehype plugins
  • Building an Astro Blog with View Transitions
    5 projects | dev.to | 24 Aug 2023
    Astro content collection are as simple as a folder containing a bunch of Markdown (or Markdoc or MDX) files if that's the only thing you need, but they can also do relationship matching between different collections, frontmatter validation using zod and you can also customize how the markdown is parsed and translated to html using rehype and remark and their plugin ecosystem.
  • Example of Powerful Markdown Editor combining Svelte-Exmarkdown and Skeleton
    2 projects | /r/sveltejs | 7 Apr 2023
  • How to integrate your blog with dev.to API Next.js 13
    5 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2023
    That's all to render the post as HTML, there are lots of things you can do to customize the results, you can check the remark plugins and rehype plugins to pass as props to and you can also take a look at some other bloggers if you're looking for different styles for example Lee Robinson's or if you liked mine.
  • Serving Docusaurus images with Cloudinary
    5 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2023
    Now we have our Cloudinary account set up, we can use it with Docusaurus. To do so, we need to create a rehype plugin. This is a plugin for the rehype HTML processor. It's a plugin that will transform the HTML image syntax into a Cloudinary URL.
  • Contentlayer with next/image
    11 projects | dev.to | 4 Jan 2023
    The next idea was to use normal markdown images and to place the images in the public folder. This eliminates the need for static import and treats our image like a remote image. But in order to make this work, we have to tell next/image the dimensions of the image. If we would use a static import for the image, the import magic would provide the dimensions for us. To pass the width and height to the image component we use a rehype plugin called rehype-img-size.
  • Creating a blog with Astro and MDX
    2 projects | dev.to | 22 Nov 2022
    Astro makes it easy to add Remark or Rehype plugins to your markdown. You can extend add a markdown property to the Astro config file, an add a function/plugin to the remarkPlugins property (the extendDefaultPlugins property is added to make sure the default plugins aren't overwritten by this config change):
  • Converting and customizing Markdown files to HTML with Unified, remark & rehype
    12 projects | dev.to | 11 Sep 2022
    rehype: "rehype is a tool that transforms HTML with plugins. These plugins can inspect and change the HTML. You can use rehype on the server, the client, CLIs, deno, etc."
  • Render Markdown from a string in Svelte (mdsvex / SvelteKit)
    5 projects | dev.to | 3 Sep 2022
    This means that you can transform your HTML with tools like rehype or remark. You can find out more about the available options here.
  • Building React Components from headless CMS markdown
    5 projects | dev.to | 24 Aug 2022
    The HTML syntax tree is transformed through rehype, and rendered to React components.

prism-react-renderer

Posts with mentions or reviews of prism-react-renderer. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-13.
  • Starlight vs. Docusaurus for building documentation
    2 projects | dev.to | 13 Feb 2024
    Both frameworks also support code blocks with syntax highlighting. Docusaurus uses prism-react-renderer for theming, while Starlight uses an Astro package called expressive-code to control customizations.
  • Is copying from open source projects stealing?
    3 projects | dev.to | 31 Oct 2023
    In my previous blog post on Code Reading, I read the codebase of Docusaurus to research how the project implements Syntax Highlighting for fenced code blocks. My research taught me that Docusaurus actually uses Prism-React-Renderer, a third-party library, to provide Syntax Highlighting. This knowledge was useful because I wanted to add syntax highlighting to ctil, my Markdown-to-HTML converter, but didn't want to implement the feature from scratch. Although I can't use Prism React Renderer in my own project, researching Docusaurus gave me the idea to find a Open Source library I could use.
  • How to embed live code editor for React components in MDX docs
    4 projects | dev.to | 14 Dec 2022
    For non-live codeBlock, you may want to render it by prism-react-renderer which is working also under the LiveEditor. I'm not sure what is the best way to share the style and theme between them but do so anyhow.
  • Adding Syntax Highlighting with Line Numbers to Gatsby MDX Using prism-react-renderer
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Mar 2022
    If you already haven’t integrated MDX into your project (you should because MDX is awesome), here’s the official guide on Gatsby's documentation to add it to your project. However, if you are already using Markdown Remark in your project, consider Migrating to MDX. In this post, we will integrate PrismJS syntax highlighting with MDX using prism-react-renderer. Also, we are going to add line numbers to code blocks. This is what we are aiming for:
  • How I built my second brain using Next.JS
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Jan 2022
    Syntax Highlighting - Nextra comes with in-built syntax highlighting. However, when I created my site the syntax highlighting feature doesn’t seem to be working. So, I ended up creating my own syntax-highlighting component with prism-react-renderer.
  • Contributing to IPC144 Repo
    2 projects | dev.to | 20 Nov 2021
    To fix it, I just went to this repo, specifically to prism-react-renderer/themes/ and checked the available themes I could use, and found out that the Visual Studio themes looked the best for my purpose.
  • Getting simple code syntax highlighting
    4 projects | /r/nextjs | 8 Nov 2021
    From memory you need to target the `pre` block so you can apply the styles/theme to them. I uses prism-react-renderer.
  • Adding Line Numbers and Code Highlighting to MDX
    2 projects | dev.to | 6 Aug 2021
    In this very short quick tip you'll learn how to set up code blocks in MDX and Gatsby that support line numbers and code highlighting using the code renderer prism-react-renderer. A preview can be found on CodeSandbox.
  • Import a File as a Raw String in Gatsby or React
    2 projects | dev.to | 17 Apr 2021
    If you check out the repo for my blog, you'll see that I have a folder with each snippet actually as a normal code file in it's own language (.py for python, .cs for C#, .ts for TypeScript, and so on). As we'll see by the end of this post, I actually import each of these files as a raw string and then syntax highlight them using the prism-react-renderer library.
  • I over-engineered my blog, and here’s what I’ve learned
    8 projects | dev.to | 5 Jan 2021
    As I didn’t have enough time to play with it, I went with another package, prism-react-renderer. It allowed me to access the raw code text in between the conversion process of next-mdx-remote, for it is a wrapper around the block.Therefore, I use it to stick it to the clipboard on button click with ease.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing rehype and prism-react-renderer you can also consider the following projects:

remark - markdown processor powered by plugins part of the @unifiedjs collective

next-mdx-remote - Load mdx content from anywhere through getStaticProps in next.js

rehype-prism - rehype plugin to highlight code blocks in HTML with Prism (via refractor)

nextjs-prism-markdown - Example using Prism / Markdown with Next.js including switching syntax highlighting themes.

PrismJS - Lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting.

rehype-toc - A rehype plugin that adds a table of contents (TOC) to the page

remark-directive - remark plugin to support directives

use-dark-mode - A custom React Hook to help you implement a "dark mode" component.

remark-extended-table - remark plugin to support table syntax allowing colspan / rowspan

next-pwa - Zero config PWA plugin for Next.js, with workbox 🧰

posthtml - PostHTML is a tool to transform HTML/XML with JS plugins