https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js

highlighting javascript language-grammars syntax-highlighter syntax-highlighting

Score: 38.56250017769688

Last synced: about 4 hours ago
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Repository metadata:

JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.

Host: GitHub
URL: https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js
Owner: highlightjs
License: bsd-3-clause
Created: 2011-01-01T23:47:21.000Z (over 15 years ago)
Default Branch: main
Last Pushed: 2026-08-21T05:13:11.000Z (5 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-23T11:57:16.421Z (3 days ago)
Topics: highlighting, javascript, language-grammars, syntax-highlighter, syntax-highlighting
Language: JavaScript
Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Size: 15.5 MB
Stars: 24,982
Watchers: 295
Forks: 3,750
Open Issues: 91
Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.CDN.md
- Changelog: CHANGES.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
- Security: SECURITY.md
- Support: SUPPORTED_LANGUAGES.md
- Notice: NOTICE.txt
- Agents: AGENTS.md

Owner metadata:

Name: highlight.js
Login: highlightjs
Email:
Kind: organization
Description: Syntax highlighting for the Web
Website: https://highlightjs.org/
Location:
Twitter:
Company:
Icon url: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/9039821?v=4
Repositories: 56
Last Synced at: 2024-03-25T19:44:29.774Z
Profile URL: https://github.com/highlightjs

GitHub Events

Total

Create event: 17
Delete event: 8
Fork event: 157
Gollum event: 1
Issue comment event: 451
Issues event: 138
Pull request event: 161
Pull request review comment event: 189
Pull request review event: 294
Push event: 105
Release event: 2
Watch event: 1132
Total: 2655

Last Year

Create event: 10
Delete event: 8
Fork event: 24
Gollum event: 1
Issue comment event: 38
Issues event: 20
Pull request event: 27
Pull request review comment event: 1
Pull request review event: 16
Push event: 43
Watch event: 169
Total: 357

Committers metadata

Last synced: about 18 hours ago

Total Commits: 5,947
Total Committers: 885
Avg Commits per committer: 6.72
Development Distribution Score (DDS): 0.695

Commits in past year: 130
Committers in past year: 84
Avg Commits per committer in past year: 1.548
Development Distribution Score (DDS) in past year: 0.862

Name	Email	Commits
Ivan Sagalaev	m**c@s**g	1816
Josh Goebel	m**e@j**m	710
Jeremy Hull	s**s@g**m	630
maniac		288
Oleg Efimov	e**v@g**m	249
Victor Zhou	O****s	91
Jan T. Sott	j**n@i**m	40
Ivan Sagalaev	m**c@m**)	37
Nicolas LLOBERA	n**a@g**m	36
EricFromCanada	e**c@l**m	34
atelierbram	b**h@g**m	31
Robert Dodier	r**r@u**t	30
Bradley Mackey	b**y@m**m	29
Marcos Cáceres	m**s@m**m	29
Alex	m**a@g**m	27
Daiz	t**n@g**m	27
TSUYUSATO Kitsune	m**n@g**m	27
dependabot[bot]	4****]	27
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Builder's Brewery	b****y	24
Ivan Sagalaev	m**c@m**p	21
Chris Eidhof	c**s@e**l	20
Jan Pilzer	j**r@m**m	20
ozler.hakan	o**n@g**m	19
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Ivan Sagalaev	i**v@y**u	17
John Foster	j**r@e**m	16
Kenton Hamaluik	h**k@u**a	16
Marcos Cáceres	m**s@m**m	15
Raphael Parree	r**e@e**m	15
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Issue and Pull Request metadata

Last synced: 6 days ago

Total issues: 392
Total pull requests: 624
Average time to close issues: 7 months
Average time to close pull requests: about 2 months
Total issue authors: 328
Total pull request authors: 276
Average comments per issue: 4.56
Average comments per pull request: 2.73
Merged pull request: 350
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 22

Past year issues: 39
Past year pull requests: 145
Past year average time to close issues: 5 months
Past year average time to close pull requests: about 2 months
Past year issue authors: 35
Past year pull request authors: 76
Past year average comments per issue: 1.51
Past year average comments per pull request: 2.03
Past year merged pull request: 61
Past year bot issues: 0
Past year bot pull requests: 16

More stats: https://issues.ecosyste.ms/repositories/lookup?url=https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js

Top Issue Authors

joshgoebel (24)
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Top Pull Request Authors

joshgoebel (29)
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Top Issue Labels

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Top Pull Request Labels

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Package metadata

Total packages: 24
Total downloads:
- npm: 125,803,517 last-month
Total docker downloads: 2,393,078,588
Total dependent packages: 11,370 (may contain duplicates)
Total dependent repositories: 700,932 (may contain duplicates)
Total versions: 286
Total maintainers: 21
Total advisories: 2

npmjs.org: highlight.js

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.12.0 (published 14 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:05:42.065Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 105
Dependent Packages: 11,299
Dependent Repositories: 700,734
Downloads: 125,518,369 Last month
Docker Downloads: 2,383,826,627
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 0.009%
- Dependent repos count: 0.044%
- Downloads: 0.049%
- Docker downloads count: 0.054%
- Average: 0.227%
- Forks count: 0.596%
- Stargazers count: 0.608%
Maintainers (4)
Advisories:
- ReDOS vulnerabities: multiple grammars
- Prototype Pollution in highlight.js

npmjs.org: @highlightjs/cdn-assets

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection. (pre-compiled CDN assets)

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.12.0 (published 14 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:46:10.677Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 45
Dependent Packages: 22
Dependent Repositories: 192
Downloads: 284,641 Last month
Docker Downloads: 9,251,961
Rankings:
- Docker downloads count: 0.292%
- Downloads: 0.464%
- Forks count: 0.583%
- Stargazers count: 0.626%
- Average: 0.695%
- Dependent repos count: 1.104%
- Dependent packages count: 1.104%
Maintainers (4)
Advisories:
- ReDOS vulnerabities: multiple grammars

proxy.golang.org: github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js

Homepage:
Status: removed
Documentation: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js#section-documentation
Licenses: bsd-3-clause
Latest release: v0.0.0-20260810223805-2a9ad7dca9f5 (published 16 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:02:40.465Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent packages count: 4.494%
- Average: 4.645%
- Dependent repos count: 4.796%

npmjs.org: @observablehq/highlight.js

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 2.0.0 (published over 7 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T11:52:04.806Z (2 days ago)
Versions: 10
Dependent Packages: 4
Dependent Repositories: 1
Downloads: 262 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.583%
- Stargazers count: 0.626%
- Dependent packages count: 4.507%
- Average: 5.793%
- Dependent repos count: 10.296%
- Downloads: 12.956%
Maintainers (4)
- mbostock
- visnup
- recifs
- tophtucker

repo1.maven.org: org.webjars.npm:highlight.js

WebJar for highlight.js

Homepage: https://www.webjars.org
Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.webjars.npm/highlight.js/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.11.1 (published over 1 year ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:05:20.409Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 34
Dependent Packages: 28
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 0.94%
- Forks count: 1.855%
- Dependent packages count: 2.225%
- Average: 9.25%
- Dependent repos count: 31.98%

repo1.maven.org: org.webjars.bowergithub.highlightjs:highlight.js

WebJar for highlight.js

Homepage: https://www.webjars.org
Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.webjars.bowergithub.highlightjs/highlight.js/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.4.0 (published over 4 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:02:23.128Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 3
Dependent Packages: 4
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 0.94%
- Forks count: 1.855%
- Average: 12.049%
- Dependent packages count: 13.421%
- Dependent repos count: 31.98%

npmjs.org: @0xecho/highlight.js

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.6.1 (published about 4 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T10:22:15.438Z (2 days ago)
Versions: 2
Dependent Packages: 2
Dependent Repositories: 2
Downloads: 37 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.583%
- Stargazers count: 0.626%
- Dependent repos count: 7.611%
- Average: 13.704%
- Dependent packages count: 20.908%
- Downloads: 38.791%
Maintainers (1)
- airyland

npmjs.org: @localazy/highlight.js

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Status: removed
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.1.2 (published about 5 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T10:58:45.502Z (2 days ago)
Versions: 4
Dependent Packages: 2
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 20 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.73%
- Stargazers count: 0.799%
- Dependent packages count: 9.482%
- Average: 14.077%
- Dependent repos count: 25.328%
- Downloads: 34.045%
Maintainers (4)

repo1.maven.org: org.webjars.npm:github-com-highlightjs-highlight-js

WebJar for highlight.js

Homepage: https://www.webjars.org
Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.webjars.npm/github-com-highlightjs-highlight-js/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.11.2 (published 26 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:07:22.076Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 5
Dependent Packages: 2
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 0.94%
- Forks count: 1.855%
- Average: 14.284%
- Dependent packages count: 22.361%
- Dependent repos count: 31.98%

npmjs.org: @joshgoebel/highlight.js-cdn-assets

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 10.0.0-test.5 (published over 6 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T12:08:57.310Z (2 days ago)
Versions: 6
Dependent Packages: 1
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 31 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.73%
- Stargazers count: 0.794%
- Average: 14.562%
- Dependent packages count: 16.224%
- Dependent repos count: 25.328%
- Downloads: 29.735%
Maintainers (1)
- joshgoebel

npmjs.org: syntaxhighlightee

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 1.3.4 (published over 4 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T10:11:16.390Z (2 days ago)
Versions: 30
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 100 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.73%
- Stargazers count: 0.794%
- Average: 15.465%
- Downloads: 17.607%
- Dependent repos count: 25.306%
- Dependent packages count: 32.89%
Maintainers (1)
- khashazad

npmjs.org: @hanye9895/highlight.js

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 10.7.2 (published over 5 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:22:05.139Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 2
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 4 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.73%
- Stargazers count: 0.799%
- Dependent packages count: 9.482%
- Average: 16.42%
- Dependent repos count: 25.328%
- Downloads: 45.763%
Maintainers (1)
- hanye9895

npmjs.org: @highlightjs/highlight.js

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 10.0.0-beta.0 (published over 6 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T12:59:30.881Z (2 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 1
Dependent Repositories: 1
Downloads: 6 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.583%
- Stargazers count: 0.626%
- Dependent repos count: 10.296%
- Average: 16.584%
- Dependent packages count: 20.908%
- Downloads: 50.508%
Maintainers (4)

npmjs.org: @alex.garcia/oak-highlight.js

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 0.0.1 (published almost 7 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T12:04:53.721Z (2 days ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 2
Dependent Repositories: 1
Downloads: 9 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.583%
- Stargazers count: 0.626%
- Dependent repos count: 10.296%
- Average: 17.463%
- Dependent packages count: 20.908%
- Downloads: 54.903%
Maintainers (1)
- alex.garcia

npmjs.org: imperial-highlight.js

IMPERIAL's forked syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Status: unpublished
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 10.7.3 (published over 5 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:11:34.493Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 2
Dependent Packages: 1
Dependent Repositories: 1
Downloads: 7 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.583%
- Stargazers count: 0.626%
- Dependent repos count: 10.296%
- Average: 17.463%
- Dependent packages count: 20.908%
- Downloads: 54.903%
Maintainers (1)
- devlooskie

repo1.maven.org: org.webjars.npm:github-com-highlightjs-highlight-js-

WebJar for highlight.js

Homepage: https://www.webjars.org
Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.webjars.npm/github-com-highlightjs-highlight-js-/
Licenses: BSD 3-Clause
Latest release: 10.2.1 (published almost 6 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:05:07.781Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 0.94%
- Forks count: 1.855%
- Average: 20.909%
- Dependent repos count: 31.98%
- Dependent packages count: 48.86%

repo1.maven.org: org.webjars.npm:highlightjs__cdn-assets

WebJar for @highlightjs/cdn-assets

Homepage: https://www.webjars.org
Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.webjars.npm/highlightjs__cdn-assets/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.11.1 (published 11 months ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:05:06.045Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 7
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Stargazers count: 0.94%
- Forks count: 1.855%
- Average: 20.909%
- Dependent repos count: 31.98%
- Dependent packages count: 48.86%

npmjs.org: eefalang

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Status: unpublished
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 1.0.1 (published over 4 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:40:10.749Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 0
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.68%
- Stargazers count: 0.741%
- Dependent repos count: 5.854%
- Dependent packages count: 23.037%
- Average: 25.679%
- Downloads: 98.083%

npmjs.org: eefalanghighlight

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Status: unpublished
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 1.0.0 (published over 4 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:21:12.500Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 1
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 0
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.68%
- Stargazers count: 0.741%
- Dependent repos count: 5.854%
- Dependent packages count: 23.037%
- Average: 25.679%
- Downloads: 98.083%

npmjs.org: @its-mie/highlight

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Status: removed
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 12.0.3 (published about 3 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T11:05:42.824Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 5
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 6 Last month
Rankings:
- Forks count: 0.602%
- Stargazers count: 0.64%
- Average: 32.415%
- Dependent repos count: 37.497%
- Dependent packages count: 53.968%
- Downloads: 69.368%
Maintainers (1)
- its-mie

repo1.maven.org: org.mvnpm:highlight.js

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Documentation: https://appdoc.app/artifact/org.mvnpm/highlight.js/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.12.0 (published 13 days ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:03:31.006Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 15
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 27.157%
- Average: 33.037%
- Dependent packages count: 38.917%

npmjs.org: @johnlindquist/highlight.js

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.9.1 (published about 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-24T11:16:20.891Z (2 days ago)
Versions: 2
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 3 Last month
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 28.467%
- Average: 34.921%
- Dependent packages count: 41.376%
Maintainers (1)
- johnlindquist

npmjs.org: @aral/highlight.js

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.10.0 (published over 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:26:19.186Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 2
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 8 Last month
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 32.156%
- Average: 39.145%
- Dependent packages count: 46.134%
Maintainers (1)
- aralbalkan

npmjs.org: jhd-forked-highlight

Syntax highlighting with language autodetection.

Homepage: https://highlightjs.org/
Licenses: BSD-3-Clause
Latest release: 11.9.6 (published over 2 years ago)
Last Synced: 2026-08-25T10:06:59.755Z (1 day ago)
Versions: 2
Dependent Packages: 0
Dependent Repositories: 0
Downloads: 14 Last month
Rankings:
- Dependent repos count: 33.514%
- Average: 40.731%
- Dependent packages count: 47.949%
Maintainers (1)
- flyer1

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