guess-programming-language

Naive programming language guessing built on top of highlight.js

Install

npm i guess-programming-language

Usage

import guessProgrammingLanguage from 'guess-programming-language'

async function run() {
  console.log(
    await guessProgrammingLanguage('const foo = "bar";')
  ) //=> javascript
}

run()

API

guessProgrammingLanguage(value)

Returns a Promise instance that resolves to the programming language name (lower case) if a match is found or null if no match is found.

value

Type: String

Value for the programming language to guess.

Why

• highlight.js is great and its guessing mechanism is good enough for most cases I needed it for
• Most libraries I've tried either have confusing APIs or require Node.js C bindings that fails to build when npm installing it

Gotchas

• If you're looking for something super precise this is not it
• This library currently only works in Node.js, feel free to send a PR if you want to add browser support

License

MIT © Rafael Rinaldi