Building Highlight.js for Gerrit

Highlight JS needs to be built with specific language support. Here are the steps to build the minified file that appears here.

NOTE: If you are adding support for a language to Highlight.js make sure to add it to the list of languages in the build command below.

Prerequisites

You will need:

• nodejs
• closure-compiler
• git

Steps to Create the Pack File

The packed version of Highlight.js is an un-minified JS file with all of the languages included. Build it with the following:

$>  # start in some temp directory
$>  git clone https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js
$>  cd highlight.js
$>  node tools/build.js -n \
      bash \
      cpp \
      cs \
      clojure \
      css \
      d \
      dart \
      erb \
      go \
      haskell \
      java \
      javascript \
      json \
      kotlin \
      lisp \
      lua \
      objectivec \
      ocaml \
      perl \
      php \
      protobuf \
      puppet \
      python \
      ruby \
      rust \
      scala \
      shell \
      sql \
      swift \
      typescript \
      xml \
      yaml

The resulting JS file will appear in the “build” directory of the Highlight.js repo under the name “highlight.pack.js”.

Minification

Minify the file using closure-compiler using the command below.

$> wget https://dl.google.com/closure-compiler/compiler-latest.zip

$> unzip compiler-latest.zip

$> mv closure-compiler-*.jar closure-compiler.jar

$>  java -jar ./closure-compiler.jar \
        --js build/highlight.pack.js \
        --js_output_file build/highlight.min.js

Copy the header comment that appears on the first line of build/highlight.pack.js and add it to the start of build/highlight.min.js.

Finish

Copy the resulting build/highlight.min.js file to lib/highlightjs