React Syntax Highlighter
React component for syntax highlighting code with Prism.js or Highlight.js.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
110
0.9% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#5 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
7.8M
npm, last 7 days, react-syntax-highlighter
GitHub stars
4,674
last push Oct 8, 2026
How React Syntax Highlighter is used
React Syntax Highlighter is a dependency in 110 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.9%), #5 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use Tailwind Merge (85.5%), clsx (84.5%), Class Variance Authority (81.8%).
Often used with React Syntax Highlighter
| Tailwind Merge | 85.5% of React Syntax Highlighter projects · 5.1× more than average |
|---|---|
| clsx | 84.5% of React Syntax Highlighter projects · 4.8× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 81.8% of React Syntax Highlighter projects · 5.8× more than average |
| Lucide React | 80.0% of React Syntax Highlighter projects · 4.0× more than average |
| Radix UI | 74.5% of React Syntax Highlighter projects · 6.2× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 95.5% of React Syntax Highlighter projects · 2.7× more than average |
| Framer Motion | 63.6% of React Syntax Highlighter projects · 4.7× more than average |
| next-themes | 62.7% of React Syntax Highlighter projects · 7.1× more than average |
By coding agent
| Cursor | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.8% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.8% of projects set up for it |
| Devin Desktop | 2.6% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.6% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list React Syntax Highlighter as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install react-syntax-highlighter |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (79), TypeScript / JavaScript (27), Python (4) |
| Example projects | ding113/claude-code-hub, ask-the-hive/the-hive, TheSolaAI/sola-application, Some1Uknow/learn-solana, WTFAcademy/frontend |
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| Tiptap npm Headless Vue/React rich text editor framework with customizable extensions. |
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| Pygments pypi Syntax highlighting library for code in Python supporting hundreds of programming languages. |
97 (0.8%) | 239M | 2,213 | — |
| Shiki npm Beautiful syntax highlighter powered by TextMate grammars with superior accuracy. |
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