Laserbeam is a semantic syntax highlighter and annotator for JavaScript code.
Semanting highlighting allows you to apply different styles to tokens based on their meaning in the syntax tree.
Annotation allows you to highlight or mark-up parts of the code, for documentation or educational purposes.
Laserbeam goes beyond a tokenizer and uses a full JavaScript parser (babel parser), which allows highlighting and annotation based on the syntax tree.
The goals for the Laserbeam project are to:
- perform semantic syntax highlighting (highlighting based on a token's role in the syntax tree)
- support annotations inside code blocks for the purpose of documentation
- integrate with code blocks inside of Markdown and HTML documents
- support EcmaScript features and common syntax extensions like JSX and TypeScript
Laserbeam outputs a representation of HTML nodes. This allows you to apply transformations (add or remove nodes, change class names) before converting it to HTML.
The output is in HAST format and can be converted to a HTML string with a HAST to HTML utility.
MIT © Marek Zaluski