Package
shiki
A beautiful Syntax Highlighter.
Key numbers
As of 25 Sept 2026
- Weekly downloads
- 16.6m
- +425% over 12 months
- Gzip bundle size
- -
- No Bundlephobia data
- Dependencies
- 8
- Direct, from package.json
- Last release
- 1 month ago
- v4.4.3
- GitHub stars
- 13.8k
- 605 forks
- Open issues / PRs
- 77 / 32
- Contributors
- -
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 146
Downloads
Last week 2026-09-15 to 2026-09-21
16,638,279 downloads last week, 85,357,121 in the last month. The 12-month change of +425% compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the series.
- Releases, last 12 months
- 22190 in total
- Latest version
- 4.4.3, 10 Aug 20261 month ago
- First published
- 7 May 2014
- Last push to GitHub
- 11 Sept 202614 days before the snapshot
- Repository archived
- No
- Open issues
- 77
- Open pull requests
- 32
- Commits, last 52 weeks
- 146
- Dependents on npm
- 2,279
Major versions
- v4 first release 4.0.0, 27 Feb 2026
- v3 first release 3.0.0, 18 Feb 2025
- v2 first release 2.0.0, 20 Jan 2025
- v1 first release 1.0.0, 7 Feb 2024
- v0 first release 0.0.1, 7 May 2014
Recent releases
| Version | Published |
|---|---|
| 4.4.3 | 10 Aug 2026 |
| 4.4.2 | 5 Aug 2026 |
| 4.4.1 | 31 Jul 2026 |
| 4.4.0 | 31 Jul 2026 |
| 4.3.1 | 3 Jul 2026 |
| 4.3.0 | 25 Jun 2026 |
| 4.2.0 | 3 Jun 2026 |
| 4.1.0 | 19 May 2026 |
| 4.0.2 | 9 Mar 2026 |
| 4.0.1 | 2 Mar 2026 |
| 4.0.0 | 27 Feb 2026 |
| 3.23.0 | 25 Feb 2026 |
| 3.22.0 | 30 Jan 2026 |
| 3.21.0 | 7 Jan 2026 |
- Module format
- ESM onlyFrom package.json type, main and exports fields
- TypeScript types
- Bundled
- Node.js engine range
- >=20
- Runtimes
- -
- Unpacked size (npm)
- 589 kB
- Dependencies (8)
@types/hast@shikijs/core@shikijs/langs@shikijs/types@shikijs/themes@shikijs/vscode-textmate@shikijs/engine-oniguruma@shikijs/engine-javascript
npm install shikiCDN
jsDelivr: 5.5m requests in 30 days
- jsDelivr
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/shiki@4.4.3/ - unpkg
https://unpkg.com/shiki@4.4.3/ - esm.sh
https://esm.sh/shiki@4.4.3
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| micromark-util-html-tag-name | 39.2m | - | 1 year ago | ESM only | - |
| micromark-util-classify-character | 39m | - | 1 year ago | ESM only | - |
Indexability: Indexed.