Friday, March 28, 2014

Chrome extension syntaxit

Here is a simple Chrome Extension - syntaxit.




or
  • git clone https://github.com/sandipchitale/syntaxit.git
  • Install it as unpacked extension (How?
You will see this browser action icon in the Chrome toolbar:


Visit any page that has JavaScript code in a pre tag which has not been been syntax colored yet by some other plugin. For example this page.



And then click on the syntaxit icon in the toolbar. Boom...you will see this:


Uses Prismjs syntax coloring library.

Currently assumes JavaScript by default. Tries to guess Java using a simple keyword match.

TODO

  • Implement more sophisticated language recognition
  • Get this extension on Chrome App store Chrome Web Store


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