react-native-code-highlighter

Code/Syntax highlighter for React Native. Inspired by react-native-syntax-highlighter, using react-syntax-highlighter

Installation

NPM

npm install react-native-code-highlighter react-syntax-highlighter

Yarn

yarn add react-native-code-highlighter react-syntax-highlighter

Additional for typescript

NPM

npm install --save-dev @types/react-syntax-highlighter

Yarn

yarn add -D @types/react-syntax-highlighter

Usage

Props

Prop	Description	Type	Optional
hljsStyle	Highlight.js style imported from react-syntax-highlighter/dist/esm/styles/hljs	{ [key: string]: React.CSSProperties }	false
textStyle	Style for the text text components. Note: color property will be overridden	StyleProp<TextStyle>	true
scrollViewProps	Props for the underlying scroll view. horizontal is ignored	ScrollViewProps	true
containerStyle	Deprecated. containerStyle for the underlying ScrollView. Use scrollViewProps.contentContainerStyle instead	StyleProp<ViewStyle>	true
react-syntax-highlighter Props	Props supported by react-syntax-highlighter. i.e. language

Example

import React from "react";
import { StyleSheet } from "react-native";
import CodeHighlighter from "react-native-code-highlighter";
import { atomOneDarkReasonable } from "react-syntax-highlighter/dist/esm/styles/hljs";

const CODE_STR = `var hello = "world"`;

export default function HighlightComponent() {
	return (
		<CodeHighlighter
			hljsStyle={atomOneDarkReasonable}
			containerStyle={styles.codeContainer}
			textStyle={styles.text}
			language="typescript"
		>
			{CODE_STR}
		</CodeHighlighter>
	);
}

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
	codeContainer: {
		padding: 16,
		minWidth: "100%",
	},
	text: {
		fontSize: 16,
	},
});

CodeSandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/react-native-code-highligher-knfsyx?file=/src/App.js

Screenshots

Contributing

See the contributing guide to learn how to contribute to the repository and the development workflow.

License

MIT

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Built using

• create-react-native-library
• react-syntax-highlighter
• trim-newlines
• css-to-react-native