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Agents tracked: 378 Downloads (7d): 244M down 5.7% GitHub stars: 8.4M VS Code installs: 151M Releases (7d): 407 Agent status: 1 with issues Updated Oct 10, 2026

prism-react-renderer

React component for syntax-highlighted code with Prism.js.

Markdown, editors and content npm MIT

Used in agent projects
31
0.2% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#35 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
5.1M
npm, last 7 days, prism-react-renderer
GitHub stars
1,996
last push Jan 2, 2025

How prism-react-renderer is used

prism-react-renderer is a dependency in 31 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.2%), #35 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use clsx (83.9%), Class Variance Authority (58.1%), React (100.0%).

Often used with prism-react-renderer

clsx83.9% of prism-react-renderer projects · 4.7× more than average
Class Variance Authority58.1% of prism-react-renderer projects · 4.1× more than average
React100.0% of prism-react-renderer projects · 2.3× more than average
tsx51.6% of prism-react-renderer projects · 5.2× more than average
Tailwind Merge58.1% of prism-react-renderer projects · 3.5× more than average
Radix UI48.4% of prism-react-renderer projects · 4.0× more than average
Next.js64.5% of prism-react-renderer projects · 2.9× more than average
Playwright (JavaScript)45.2% of prism-react-renderer projects · 5.1× more than average

By coding agent

GitHub Copilot0.5% of projects set up for it
Claude Code0.4% of projects set up for it
Cursor0.5% of projects set up for it

Share of public repos configured for each agent that list prism-react-renderer as a dependency.

Install

Packagenpm install prism-react-renderer
Main stacksNext.js (19), TypeScript / JavaScript (12)
Example projectsav/remotion-bits, unchain-tech/UNCHAIN-projects, WTFAcademy/frontend, JesusFilm/core, johnlindquist/script-generator

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