rehype-highlight
rehype plugin to add syntax highlighting to code blocks using highlight.js.
Markdown, editors and content npm MIT
Used in agent projects
39
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in markdown, editors and content
#25 of 46
by use in those projects
Downloads
2.3M
npm, last 7 days, rehype-highlight
GitHub stars
333
last push Feb 21, 2025
How rehype-highlight is used
rehype-highlight is a dependency in 39 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #25 of 46 in markdown, editors and content. The most used alternative there is react-markdown. Projects that use it most often also use remark-gfm (92.3%), react-markdown (87.2%), Lucide React (71.8%).
Often used with rehype-highlight
| remark-gfm | 92.3% of rehype-highlight projects · 40.7× more than average |
|---|---|
| react-markdown | 87.2% of rehype-highlight projects · 30.7× more than average |
| Lucide React | 71.8% of rehype-highlight projects · 3.6× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 89.7% of rehype-highlight projects · 2.6× more than average |
| React | 100.0% of rehype-highlight projects · 2.3× more than average |
| Next.js | 69.2% of rehype-highlight projects · 3.1× more than average |
| Framer Motion | 51.3% of rehype-highlight projects · 3.8× more than average |
| highlight.js | 48.7% of rehype-highlight projects · 91.0× more than average |
By coding agent
| Claude Code | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Cursor | 0.5% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.4% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 1.1% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list rehype-highlight as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install rehype-highlight |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (27), TypeScript / JavaScript (9), Rust (1), Python (1) |
| Example projects | miantiao-me/bm.md, 5pyj29s7cm-tech/LumiCore, cdavid817/vanehub-ai, Some1Uknow/learn-solana, jalcantarab/v0-vibecodex |
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