The viewer's code block stops lexing with a hand-rolled dialect table and
reads real TextMate grammars instead, run once in `/api/source`.
Three things make that safe to depend on:
* Highlighting never fails a request. A missing grammar, an oversized
slice, an ESM import that did not resolve — every one of them answers
`engine: 'plain'` with a reason and the source still goes out.
* Identifiers survive whatever token boundaries a grammar chose. Every
code token is split into identifier runs before it goes on the wire, so
the graph's call-site overlay claims a token the highlighter produced
rather than re-cutting the line. `assignRefs` now matches on a token's
text rather than on the class a grammar gave it, so a language that
scopes type names as `storage.type` still links.
* The theme classifies rather than colours: its foregrounds are sentinels
the server maps back to class names, and the viewer paints them from
CSS custom properties — one token stream serves light and dark with no
refetch, and the ramp lives only in app.css.
Comments move from --ink-3 to a new --code-comment. --ink-3 measures
3.46:1 on paper and 3.00:1 on the hot-line tint, both under AA for 12.5px
text; --code-comment is the smallest step along the same ramp that clears
4.5:1 on every background a code line can have, and stays quieter than
the strings and numbers above it.
Shipping: @shikijs/core and @shikijs/engine-javascript are runtime
dependencies (no wasm, no native module); @shikijs/langs stays a
devDependency and `npm run build:textmate` writes only the closure the
engine's 40-odd languages reach — 56 grammars, 2.6 MB, against 11 MB for
all 722. check-ui-build.mjs asserts the tree after every build and inside
every release archive.
Colby McHenry
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