Satzbau is a static syntax highlighter for code blocks within HTML files. Is built on top of (Highlight.js)[https://highlightjs.org] and (Cheerio)[https://github.com/cheeriojs/cheerio].
If you run a small blog or other generic technical website, you may want to have code highlighting within your code blocks. Traditionally this has been achieved by bundling a client side highlighting library with your web pages; but this has the disadvantage of adding to page loading times and depriving people who have Javascript disabled. Satzbau leverages the very powerful Highlightjs library to embed the highlighting tags directly into your HTML files, eliminating the need for a client side libraries.
It's really simple. Satzbau is a simple command line application can that can take one or many file names and or directories and perform the syntax highlighting logic over all files that match the target criteria; the files are then save back to disk and you're done. If for example you use a static website generator, you might consider adding Satzbau as a post processing step.
npm install -g satzbau
Once installed you can execute Satzbau from the command line like so:
satzbau ./website
The above command would run satzbau over the ./website directory. By default if no command line options are given, satzbau will search for