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React Highlight Words

react-highlight-words

React component to highlight words within a larger body of text

Component Libraries
react
reactjs
react-component
highlighter
highlight
text
words
matches
substring
occurrences
Stars
1
Weekly
0
Open issues
0
Bundle
~60 kB

Installation

npm install react-highlight-words

Code example

import { Button } from "react-highlight-words";

export function Example() {
  return (
    <div className="flex gap-2">
      <Button>Primary</Button>
      <Button variant="outline">Secondary</Button>
    </div>
  );
}

Pros & cons

Pros

  • Actively maintained by Brian Vaughn
  • 0 weekly downloads. Battle tested
  • MIT licensed

Considerations

  • Adds roughly ~60 kB to your bundle
  • Needs client-only rendering in SSR frameworks
  • Not supported in React Native
  • 0 open issues on GitHub

FAQs

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