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Highlight JS Syntax Highlighter

By: Chris Dunn on Tue Jan 9, 2018 (4 min read)

When you're writing a technical blog, you need a good syntax highlighter.  I didn't want to point to external files or even GitHub Gists for every sample or partial piece of code.  While there are probably hundreds of tools for the job, I ended up choosing Highlight JS, and couldn't be happier.  Here's how I went about setting it up including a minor customization I added for the display.   NOTE: If you have a code display option in your CMS or Wiki, I would try give that a try first and see if ...