A farewell to arms

Tue Jan 02

A Farewell to Arms is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant in the ambulance corps of the Italian Army.

Written by: Ernest Hemingway

TIt uses TextMate grammar to tokenize strings, and colors the tokens with VS Code themes. In short, Shiki generates HTML that looks exactly like your code in VS Code, and it works great in your static website generator.

It’s simple to use:

// Example JavaScript
const shiki = require('shiki')
shiki.getHighlighter({
    theme: 'nord'
}).then(highlighter => {
    console.log(highlighter.codeToHtml(`console.log('shiki');`, {
        lang: 'js'
    }))
})
// <pre class="shiki" style="background-color: #2e3440"><code>
//   <!-- Highlighted Code -->
// </code></pre>

Here’s Shiki using Shiki ( how meta ) and markdown-it to generate this page:

const fs = require('fs')
const markdown = require('markdown-it')
const shiki = require('shiki')
shiki.getHighlighter({
  theme: 'nord'
}).then(highlighter => {
  const md = markdown({
    html: true,
    highlight: (code, lang) => {
      return highlighter.codeToHtml(code, { lang })
    }
  })
  const html = md.render(fs.readFileSync('index.md', 'utf-8'))
  const out = `
    <title>Shiki</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css">
    ${html}
    <script src="index.js"></script>
  `
  fs.writeFileSync('index.html', out)
  console.log('done')
})

Shiki can load any VS Code themes.:

import { tokenColors } from "./custom-theme.json";
// https://astro.build/config
// VS Code Theme is:
export default defineConfig({
  markdown: {
    shikiConfig: {
      theme: {
        name: "custom",
        type: "dark",
        settings: tokenColors,
      },
      wrap: true,
      skipInline: false,
      drafts: false,
    },
  },
});