# @expressive-code/plugin-shiki

> Shiki syntax highlighting plugin for Expressive Code, a text marking & annotation engine for presenting source code on the web.

Latest version **0.44.2** (published 2026-08-31) · MIT license · 0 weekly downloads

## Install

```sh
npm install @expressive-code/plugin-shiki
pnpm add @expressive-code/plugin-shiki
yarn add @expressive-code/plugin-shiki
bun add @expressive-code/plugin-shiki
```

## Health

**Score 75/100 (B)** — status: active.

Positive: has types; esm support; no vulnerabilities; has provenance; recently updated; high maintenance score; high quality score.

Warnings: low downloads; pre 1.0.

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Version | 0.44.2 |
| Published | 2026-08-31 |
| First published | 2023-05-10 |
| Weekly downloads | 0 |
| License | MIT |
| TypeScript types | bundled |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS |
| Dependencies | 2 |
| Unpacked size | 68.7 KB |
| Known vulnerabilities | 0 |
| Install scripts | no |
| Provenance | attested (GitHub Actions) |
| GitHub stars | 965 |
| Author | Tibor Schiemann |
| Maintainers | hippotastic, delucis |

## Links

- npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@expressive-code/plugin-shiki
- Repository: https://github.com/expressive-code/expressive-code
- Homepage: https://github.com/expressive-code/expressive-code#readme
- Issues: https://github.com/expressive-code/expressive-code/issues
- npm.io page: https://npm.io/package/@expressive-code/plugin-shiki

## Dependencies (2)

- [shiki](https://npm.io/package/shiki.md) ^4.0.2
- [@expressive-code/core](https://npm.io/package/@expressive-code/core.md) ^0.44.2

## Recent versions

- 0.44.2 (latest) — 2026-08-31
- 0.44.1 — 2026-07-20
- 0.44.0 — 2026-06-25
- 0.43.1 — 2026-06-09
- 0.43.0 — 2026-06-08
- 0.42.0 — 2026-05-04
- 0.41.7 — 2026-02-23
- 0.41.6 — 2026-01-15
- 0.41.5 — 2025-12-16
- 0.41.4 — 2025-12-11
- 0.41.3 — 2025-07-05
- 0.41.2 — 2025-04-22
- 0.41.1 — 2025-04-13
- 0.41.0 — 2025-04-12
- 0.40.2 — 2025-02-11
- … 77 more at https://npm.io/package/@expressive-code/plugin-shiki/versions

## README

# @expressive-code/plugin-shiki

A default plugin of Expressive Code, an engine for presenting source code on the web.

It performs syntax highlighting of your code blocks using Shiki, which uses the same engine as VS Code to provide accurate syntax highlighting for over 100 languages.

## Documentation

[Read this plugin's documentation](https://expressive-code.com/key-features/syntax-highlighting/) on the Expressive Code website to learn more about its features.

## Installation (not required)

No installation is required. This package is **installed by default** by our higher-level packages.

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