Hilite

Highlights code in bulk, and then exports an HTML and a PDF file.

Installation

Install it globally using npm or Yarn.

npm i -g @mrbbot/hilite

yarn global add @mrbbot/hilite

Usage

To highlight all files in the src directory, and output index.html and index.pdf in the current directory run the following command:

hilite src

You can specify as many locations to highlight so if you also wanted to highlight files in the dist directory:

hilite src dist

You can also specify globs to match:

hilite src/**/*.js

If you want to change the output file names, you can use the --output (-o) flag. For example, the following command will output to code.html and code.pdf instead of the normal index:

hilite src -o code

Additionally, if you're just looking for HTML output, you can disable the PDF export with the --pdf (-p) flag:

hilite src -p false

This will only generate an index.html file.

Customisation

Prism Theme

Hilite uses Prism for code highlighting, so if you don't like the default theme, you can easily change it using the --theme (-t) flag to either one of the presets, or your own custom one.

If you wanted to change the output to use the funky theme:

hilite src -t funky

Other available presets are:

• default (this is the actual default prism theme, Hilite uses its own simplified version normally)
• dark
• okaidia
• twilight
• coy
• solarized-light
• tomorrow-night

If you had a custom theme stored in theme.css, you could use it with the following command:

hilite src -t theme.css

Heading Level

You can change the level of the code filename headings with the --level (-l) flag. For instance to use <h2> tags instead of the default <h1>s:

hilite src -l 2

Margin

Finally, you can also change the amount of margin in the PDF export using the --margin (-m) flag.

hilite src -m 1in

You must include the unit in your value.