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Discussion on: I Spent the Last Year Writing a Book About Software: Here's How I Did It (and What I Learned Along the Way)

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Davide Barranca • Edited

Hi, got there because of syntax highlighting. I've been self-publishing 3 books in the past (see here) first using Leanpub then going full LaTeX (crazy me).

After having pulled almost all my hair I was moderately satisfied, then for the next book I need React.js syntax highlighting and hell is breaking loose. I'm currently working with minted (I was a listings user before), and tcolorbox as well. "Working" means that I mostly have a disappointed stare and I mumble Italian curses.

For the love of god, there's no simple way out here: I'm trying to add zebra lines and it looks like I'm re-programming the Hubble telescope. Anyway... Could you please share the better-jsx-lexer you've tweaked? I guess I'm using the one you've taken as a start point.

Thanks!!

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Mandi Wise

Hi Davide,

Big disclaimer: this does not work 100% yet (there are some instances where the highlighting falls apart, particularly when things get deeply nested). But this is what I managed to adapt from the fcurella/jsx-lexer:

gist.github.com/mandiwise/452b23fd...

It's on my long-term to-do list to completely rewrite this lexer from the ground-up, but I don't have the bandwidth for it at the moment.

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Davide Barranca

Hi Mandi,
so nice of you to share this. I've touched it just ever slightly to allow the use of dashes in the component name (e.g. <sp-button>), I've forked your gist here: gist.github.com/undavide/a225bd6fb...
Thanks again!