shiki vs shiki-starter

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shiki		shiki-starter
	Project
26	Mentions	1
8,552	Stars	8
15.6%	Growth	-
9.8	Activity	1.8
7 days ago	Latest Commit	over 3 years ago
TypeScript	Language	HTML
MIT License	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.

shiki

Posts with mentions or reviews of shiki. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-04.

Shiki: A beautiful yet powerful syntax highlighter
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Mar 2024
VueJS turns 10 years old
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Feb 2024

Shiki (https://shiki.style) might be good enough for your usecase, use the latest beta versions as it's the new fresh esm rewrite.
GIGO and VS-code: the Battle With Microsoft
4 projects | dev.to | 19 Dec 2023

Finally the vanguard had arrived. A markdown renderer named Shiki.
Scraping Google Maps
2 projects | /r/node | 11 Jun 2023

Can I introduce you to our lord and savior Shiki? https://github.com/shikijs/shiki
Shiki Syntax Highlighter
1 project | /r/hypeurls | 6 Mar 2023

7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Mar 2023

Coincidentally, I recently looked into the slow startup time for shiki and it was mostly from parsing JSONC, not WASM: https://github.com/shikijs/shiki/issues/439.
Dark mode with Shiki and Code Hike
7 projects | dev.to | 29 Jan 2023

Warning: This article refers to versions of Code Hike before 0.8.0. Since version 0.8.0, Code Hike uses lighter instead of Shiki. The approach presented in this article uses shiki's color replacement method, which no longer works with lighter.
What do you use to display code example on your personal blog, or in an article?
2 projects | /r/webdev | 27 Jan 2023
Nextra 2 – Next.js Static Site Generator
5 projects | dev.to | 23 Jan 2023

Prismjs was replaced by Shiki and rehype-pretty-code.
Want to create attractive, interactive docs? Use these amazing documentation tools and examples
11 projects | dev.to | 2 Dec 2022

The outcome I was (mostly) hoping for has been done by Shiki library! I take no credit for the idea btw, I am just glad that someone else (Pine) took it on!

shiki-starter

Posts with mentions or reviews of shiki-starter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-20.

🚀10 Trending projects on GitHub for web developers - 20th August 2021
4 projects | dev.to | 20 Aug 2021

Clone shikijs/shiki-starter to play with Shiki, or try it out on Repl.it.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing shiki and shiki-starter you can also consider the following projects:

PrismJS - Lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting.

shiki.

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

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

codehike - Marvellous code walkthroughs

mdx - Markdown for the component era

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

dev - Development repository for the CodeMirror editor project

mdx-bundler - 🦤 Give me MDX/TSX strings and I'll give you back a component you can render. Supports imports!

sveltekit-shiki-code-highlighting - SvelteKit Shiki syntax highlighting: use any VSCode colour theme to accessibly syntax highlight code on your SvelteKit app with line numbers.

twoslash - You take some Shiki, add a hint of TypeScript compiler, and 🎉 incredible static code samples

vscode-theme-acid - Dark Visual Studio Theme