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Use marked and prism.js to parse markdown and add syntax highlighting in Node.js
// Versions: marked v0.6.2, prismjs v1.15.0
let marked = require('marked');
let prism = require('prismjs');
let loadLanguages = require('prismjs/components/');
loadLanguages(['javascript', 'jsx', 'css', 'markup', 'bash', 'json']);
marked.setOptions({
highlight: function(code, lang) {
if (prism.languages[lang]) {
return prism.highlight(code, prism.languages[lang], lang);
} else {
return code;
}
}
});
let someMarkdown = "```javascript\nlet x = 2;```";
let html = marked.parse(someMarkdown)
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lai32290 commented Mar 7, 2022

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Thanks! it works!!

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