Lowlight
Virtual syntax highlighting for non-HTML contexts like virtual DOMs and markdown.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
21
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#45 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
13.5M
npm, last 7 days, lowlight
GitHub stars
928
last push Dec 14, 2024
How Lowlight is used
Lowlight is a dependency in 21 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #45 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use Lucide React (85.7%), Class Variance Authority (81.0%), Tailwind Merge (81.0%).
Often used with Lowlight
| Lucide React | 85.7% of Lowlight projects · 4.3× more than average |
|---|---|
| Class Variance Authority | 81.0% of Lowlight projects · 5.7× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 81.0% of Lowlight projects · 4.8× more than average |
| Radix UI | 76.2% of Lowlight projects · 6.4× more than average |
| clsx | 76.2% of Lowlight projects · 4.3× more than average |
| Next.js | 81.0% of Lowlight projects · 3.6× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 95.2% of Lowlight projects · 2.7× more than average |
| Tiptap | 61.9% of Lowlight projects · 74.9× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.2% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Lowlight as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install lowlight |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (17), TypeScript / JavaScript (3), PHP (1) |
| Example projects | fountain-ink/app, namastexlabs/automagik-cli |
Alternatives to Lowlight
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| react-markdown npm React component for rendering markdown with customizable component handling. |
360 (2.8%) | 37.2M | 15.9K | MIT |
| remark-gfm npm Remark plugin adding GitHub Flavored Markdown support for tables and strikethrough. |
288 (2.3%) | 44.5M | 1,249 | MIT |
| Jinja2 pypi Fast and expressive template engine for Python with powerful flexibility. |
175 (1.4%) | 145M | 11.8K | — |
| Marked npm Fast, efficient markdown parser for converting markdown to HTML. |
148 (1.2%) | 83.8M | 37.2K | MIT |
| React Syntax Highlighter npm React component for syntax highlighting code with Prism.js or Highlight.js. |
110 (0.9%) | 7.8M | 4,674 | MIT |
| gray-matter npm Parser extracting YAML/JSON front matter from markdown and text files. |
106 (0.8%) | 10.6M | 4,490 | MIT |
| Tiptap npm Headless Vue/React rich text editor framework with customizable extensions. |
105 (0.8%) | 18.7M | 38.7K | MIT |
| Pygments pypi Syntax highlighting library for code in Python supporting hundreds of programming languages. |
97 (0.8%) | 239M | 2,213 | — |