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Load Custom Themes

See All Builtin Themes first.

You can load custom themes by passing a Theme object into the themes array.

ts
import { 
getHighlighter
} from 'shiki'
const
myTheme
= {
name
: 'my-theme',
settings
: [
{
scope
: ['comment'],
settings
: {
foreground
: '#888'
} }, // ... ] } const
highlighter
= await
getHighlighter
({
themes
: [
myTheme
],
langs
: [],
}) const
code
= `console.log('hello')`
const
html
=
highlighter
.
codeToHtml
(
code
, {
lang
: 'javascript',
theme
: 'my-theme'
})

You can also load themes after the highlighter has been created.

ts
import { 
getHighlighter
} from 'shiki'
// Load the theme object from a file, a network request, or anywhere const
myTheme
=
JSON
.
parse
(fs.readFileSync('my-theme.json', 'utf8'))
const
highlighter
= await
getHighlighter
({
langs
: ['javascript'],
themes
: [],
}) await
highlighter
.
loadTheme
(
myTheme
) // <--
const
code
= `console.log('hello')`
const
html
=
highlighter
.
codeToHtml
(
code
, {
lang
: 'javascript',
theme
: 'my-theme'
})

The theme is a TextMate theme in JavaScript object. For example, it should look like this.

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