tailwindcss-typography VS PrismJS

At this point the markdown may be rendered, but styles will not be applied. To fix that, you need to import prismjs styles. If you’re using Tailwind, you’ll also want to add tailwindcss-typography for that extra polish (and apply the prose css class where you rendered the blogs). Depending on your Tailwind version (mine’s 4+), you’ll need to edit your style.css.

Recently, while building a personal blog started with Tailwind CSS v3.4, I was faced with the need to upgrade to the latest version of the utility-first library. Though this migration guide was helpful, I couldn't find resources to include plugins such as @tailwindcss/typography (needed for the prose-related rules) and @tailwindcss/forms (needed for form elements). Hence this article. It will be a short ride.

prose class from the official Typography plugin made our flagship article a well-formatted piece of content instantly.

Tailwind's Typography plugin.

To enable viewing MDX files in our app, lets install MDX. We should also install our other helper which is tailwindcss/typography as a dev dependency. This'll be useful later for auto styling the blog post.

3. Setup react-markdown and @tailwindcss/typography

The typography plugin which comes out of tailwind gives a clean readable experience in my opinion. https://tailwindcss.com/docs/typography-plugin

This is the text before the plugin: This is the text after applying the plugin: You can play with the demo here, and check out more ways to use it in the Typography documentation.

2. Use typography plugin

We've been using https://tailwindcss.com/docs/typography-plugin with Tiptap and it's worked great so far.

The site uses Astro (https://astro.build/) and the code blocks are generated using Shiki (https://shiki.style/). As Shiki generates the HTML and CSS at build-time instead of requiring runtime JS like alternatives like Prism (https://prismjs.com/#basic-usage), it's actually quite performant. I think it's unlikely that a couple of hundred lines with some empty spans in is going to cause performance issues – imo it's more likely to come from some silly JS somewhere.

First step it to open src/app/app.config.ts, enable markdown file support, and add a syntax highlighter. You can pick between Prism or Shiki, both are great, but for this example, we’re rolling with Prism.

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This function receives a SLATE Node. I get the text of the "Node" With the text, I create the "tokens" with PRISMJS. I transform the "tokens" into Range. The "Ranges" have the className property with the information for the highlight.

For Code highlighting, I am using Prism.js. First I am loading the styles file inside the _app.tsx file and inside the CodeBlock component, I am loading the styling that gives us beautiful syntax highlights.

Luckily, implementing syntax highlighting in our simple code editor is easy with the use of external libraries. There are several JavaScript libraries available, such as Prism and Highlight.js. For our editor, we'll use Prism since it's easy to use and supports a wide range of programming languages.

🌈 Prismjs Code highlighting, use it with Marked

I'm trying to implement the new feature in a similar way, but not exactly the same, so my plan is going to modify unwrapMdxCodeBlocks function and apply Prism to highlight the code blocks.

Hey all, I've been taking notes as I learn Godot engine, using the Editor Syntax Highlight plugin, but it doesn't show highlighting in edit mode unlike how it does for other languages. I read on a forum somewhere that this plugin/Obsidian uses [PrismJS](https://github.com/PrismJS/prism/issues) for syntax highlighting, which has gdscript on its list of supported languages, yet it doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated thank you!