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Basic setup

So what did it take to get this working on my blog?

I started with registering for a free³ account at torchlight.dev and generating an API token. I'll need to include that later with calls to the Torchlight API. The token will be stashed as an environment variable in my Netlify configuration, but I'll also stick it in a local .env file for use with local builds:

echo "TORCHLIGHT_TOKEN=torch_[...]" > ./.env # [tl! .cmd]

Installation

I then used npm to install Torchlight in the root of my Hugo repo:

npm i @torchlight-api/torchlight-cli # [tl! .cmd]
# [tl! .nocopy:1]
added 94 packages in 5s

That created a few new files and directories that I don't want to sync with the repo, so I added those to my .gitignore configuration. I'll also be sure to add that .env file so that I don't commit any secrets!

# torchlight! {"lineNumbers": true}
# .gitignore
.hugo_build.lock
/node_modules/ [tl! ++:2]
/package-lock.json
/package.json
/public/
/resources/
/.env [tl! ++]

The installation instructions say to then initialize Torchlight like so:

npx torchlight init # [tl! .cmd focus]
# [tl! .nocopy:start]
node:internal/fs/utils:350
    throw err;
    ^

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/john/projects/runtimeterror/node_modules/@torchlight-api/torchlight-cli/dist/stubs/config.js' # [tl! focus highlight collapse:start]
    at Object.openSync (node:fs:603:3) #
    at Object.readFileSync (node:fs:471:35)
    at write (/home/john/projects/runtimeterror/node_modules/@torchlight-api/torchlight-cli/dist/bin/torchlight.cjs.js:524:39)
    at init (/home/john/projects/runtimeterror/node_modules/@torchlight-api/torchlight-cli/dist/bin/torchlight.cjs.js:538:12)
    at Command.<anonymous> (/home/john/projects/runtimeterror/node_modules/@torchlight-api/torchlight-cli/dist/bin/torchlight.cjs.js:722:12)
    at Command.listener [as _actionHandler] (/home/john/projects/runtimeterror/node_modules/commander/lib/command.js:488:17)
    at /home/john/projects/runtimeterror/node_modules/commander/lib/command.js:1227:65
    at Command._chainOrCall (/home/john/projects/runtimeterror/node_modules/commander/lib/command.js:1144:12)
    at Command._parseCommand (/home/john/projects/runtimeterror/node_modules/commander/lib/command.js:1227:27)
    at Command._dispatchSubcommand (/home/john/projects/runtimeterror/node_modules/commander/lib/command.js:1050:25) { # [tl! collapse:end]
  errno: -2,
  syscall: 'open',
  code: 'ENOENT',
  path: '/home/john/projects/runtimeterror/node_modules/@torchlight-api/torchlight-cli/dist/stubs/config.js'
}

Node.js v18.17.1
# [tl! .nocopy:end]

Oh. Hmm.

There's an open issue which reveals that the stub config file is actually located under the src/ directory instead of dist/.

Configuration

I'll just copy that to my repo root and then set to work modifying it to suit my needs:

cp node_modules/@torchlight-api/torchlight-cli/src/stubs/config.js ./torchlight.config.js # [tl! .cmd]

// torchlight! {"lineNumbers": true}
// torchlight.config.js
module.exports = {
  // Your token from https://torchlight.dev
  token: process.env.TORCHLIGHT_TOKEN, // this will come from a netlify build var [tl! highlight focus]

  // The Torchlight client caches highlighted code blocks. Here you
  // can define which directory you'd like to use. You'll likely
  // want to add this directory to your .gitignore. Set to
  // `false` to use an in-memory cache. You may also
  // provide a full cache implementation.
  cache: 'cache', // [tl! -- focus:1]
  cache: false, // disable cache for netlify builds [tl! ++ reindex(-1)]

  // Which theme you want to use. You can find all of the themes at
  // https://torchlight.dev/docs/themes.
  theme: 'material-theme-palenight', // [tl! -- focus:1]
  theme: 'one-dark-pro', // switch up the theme [tl! ++ reindex(-1)]

  // The Host of the API.
  host: 'https://api.torchlight.dev',

  // Global options to control block-level settings.
  // https://torchlight.dev/docs/options
  options: {
    // Turn line numbers on or off globally.
    lineNumbers: false,

    // Control the `style` attribute applied to line numbers.
    // lineNumbersStyle: '',

    // Turn on +/- diff indicators.
    diffIndicators: true,

    // If there are any diff indicators for a line, put them
    // in place of the line number to save horizontal space.
    diffIndicatorsInPlaceOfLineNumbers: true

    // When lines are collapsed, this is the text that will
    // be shown to indicate that they can be expanded.
    // summaryCollapsedIndicator: '...',
  },

  // Options for the highlight command.
  highlight: {
    // Directory where your un-highlighted source files live. If
    // left blank, Torchlight will use the current directory.
    input: '', // [tl! -- focus:1]
    input: 'public', // tells Torchlight where to find Hugo's processed HTML output [tl! ++ reindex(-1)]

    // Directory where your highlighted files should be placed. If
    // left blank, files will be modified in place.
    output: '',

    // Globs to include when looking for files to highlight.
    includeGlobs: [
      '**/*.htm',
      '**/*.html'
    ],

    // String patterns to ignore (not globs). The entire file
    // path will be searched and if any of these strings
    // appear, the file will be ignored.
    excludePatterns: [
      '/node_modules/',
      '/vendor/'
    ]
  }
}

You can find more details about the configuration options here.

Stylization

It's not strictly necessary for the basic functionality, but applying a little bit of extra CSS to match up with the classes leveraged by Torchlight can help to make things look a bit more polished. Fortunately for this fake-it-til-you-make-it dev, Torchlight provides sample CSS that work great for this:

Basic CSS for generally making things look tidy
Focus CSS for that slick blur/focus effect
Collapse CSS for some accordion action

Put those blocks together (along with a few minor tweaks), and here's what I started with in assets/css/torchlight.css:

// torchlight! {"lineNumbers": true}

/*********************************************
* Basic styling for Torchlight code blocks.  *
**********************************************/

/*
 Margin and rounding are personal preferences,
 overflow-x-auto is recommended.
*/
pre {
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    margin-top: 1rem;
    margin-bottom: 1rem;
    overflow-x: auto;
}

/*
 Add some vertical padding and expand the width
 to fill its container. The horizontal padding
 comes at the line level so that background
 colors extend edge to edge.
*/
pre.torchlight {
    display: block;
    min-width: -webkit-max-content;
    min-width: -moz-max-content;
    min-width: max-content;
    padding-top: 1rem;
    padding-bottom: 1rem;
}

/*
 Horizontal line padding to match the vertical
 padding from the code block above.
*/
pre.torchlight .line {
    padding-left: 1rem;
    padding-right: 1rem;
}

/*
 Push the code away from the line numbers and
 summary caret indicators.
*/
pre.torchlight .line-number,
pre.torchlight .summary-caret {
    margin-right: 1rem;
}

/*********************************************
* Focus styling                              *
**********************************************/

/*
  Blur and dim the lines that don't have the `.line-focus` class,
  but are within a code block that contains any focus lines.
*/
.torchlight.has-focus-lines .line:not(.line-focus) {
    transition: filter 0.35s, opacity 0.35s;
    filter: blur(.095rem);
    opacity: .65;
}

/*
  When the code block is hovered, bring all the lines into focus.
*/
.torchlight.has-focus-lines:hover .line:not(.line-focus) {
    filter: blur(0px);
    opacity: 1;
}

/*********************************************
* Collapse styling                           *
**********************************************/

.torchlight summary:focus {
    outline: none;
}

/* Hide the default markers, as we provide our own */
.torchlight details > summary::marker,
.torchlight details > summary::-webkit-details-marker {
    display: none;
}

.torchlight details .summary-caret::after {
    pointer-events: none;
}

/* Add spaces to keep everything aligned */
.torchlight .summary-caret-empty::after,
.torchlight details .summary-caret-middle::after,
.torchlight details .summary-caret-end::after {
    content: " ";
}

/* Show a minus sign when the block is open. */
.torchlight details[open] .summary-caret-start::after {
    content: "-";
}

/* And a plus sign when the block is closed. */
.torchlight details:not([open]) .summary-caret-start::after {
    content: "+";
}

/* Hide the [...] indicator when open. */
.torchlight details[open] .summary-hide-when-open {
    display: none;
}

/* Show the [...] indicator when closed. */
.torchlight details:not([open]) .summary-hide-when-open {
    display: initial;
}

/*********************************************
* Additional styling                         *
**********************************************/

/* Fix for disjointed horizontal scrollbars */
.highlight div {
  overflow-x: visible;
}

I'll make sure that this CSS gets dynamically attached to any pages with a code block by adding this to the bottom of my layouts/partials/head.html:

<!-- syntax highlighting -->
{{ if (findRE "<pre" .Content 1) }}
  {{ $syntax := resources.Get "css/torchlight.css" | minify }}
  <link href="{{ $syntax.RelPermalink }}" rel="stylesheet">

As a bit of housekeeping, I'm also going to remove the built-in highlighter configuration from my config/_default/markup.toml file to make sure it doesn't conflict with Torchlight:

# torchlight! {"lineNumbers": true}
# config/_default/markup.toml
[goldmark]
  [goldmark.renderer]
    hardWraps = false
    unsafe = true
    xhtml = false
  [goldmark.extensions]
    typographer = false

[highlight] # [tl! --:start]
  anchorLineNos = true
  codeFences = true
  guessSyntax = true
  hl_Lines = ''
  lineNos = false
  lineNoStart = 1
  lineNumbersInTable = false
  noClasses = false
  tabwidth = 2
  style = 'monokai'
# [tl! --:end]
# Table of contents # [tl! reindex(10)]
# Add toc = true to content front matter to enable
[tableOfContents]
  endLevel   = 5
  ordered    = false
  startLevel = 3

Building

Now that the pieces are in place, it's time to start building!

Local

I like to preview my blog as I work on it so that I know what it will look like before I hit git push and let Netlify do its magic. And Hugo has been fantastic for that! But since I'm offloading the syntax highlighting to the Torchlight API, I'll need to manually build the site instead of relying on Hugo's instant preview builds.

There are a couple of steps I'll use for this:

First, I'll source .env to load the TORCHLIGHT_TOKEN for the API.
Then, I'll use hugo --minify --environment local -D to render my site into the public/ directory.
Next, I'll call npx torchlight to parse the HTML files in public/, extract the content of any <pre>/<code> blocks, send it to the Torchlight API to work the magic, and write the formatted code blocks back to the existing HTML files.
Finally, I use python3 -m http.server --directory public 1313 to serve the public/ directory so I can view the content at http://localhost:1313.

I'm lazy, though, so I'll even put that into a quick build.sh script to help me run local builds:

# torchlight! {"lineNumbers": true}
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Quick script to run local builds
source .env
hugo --minify --environment local -D
npx torchlight
python3 -m http.server --directory public 1313

Now I can just make the script executable and fire it off:

chmod +x build.sh # [tl! focus:3 .cmd:1]
./build.sh
Start building sites … # [tl! .nocopy:start]
hugo v0.111.3+extended linux/amd64 BuildDate=unknown VendorInfo=nixpkgs

                   | EN
-------------------+------
  Pages            | 202
  Paginator pages  |   0
  Non-page files   | 553
  Static files     |  49
  Processed images |   0
  Aliases          |   5
  Sitemaps         |   1
  Cleaned          |   0

Total in 248 ms
Highlighting index.html
Highlighting 3d-modeling-and-printing-on-chrome-os/index.html
Highlighting 404/index.html
Highlighting about/index.html # [tl! collapse:start]

 +    +     +      O
     o                  '
 ________________        _
 \__(=======/_=_/____.--'-`--.___
           \ \   `,--,-.___.----'
         .--`\\--'../   |
        '---._____.|]  -0-  |o
               *        |  -0-  -O-
      '    o     0          |  '
             .     -0-        .    '

Did you really want to see the full file list?

Highlighting tags/vsphere/index.html # [tl! collapse:end]
Highlighting tags/windows/index.html
Highlighting tags/wireguard/index.html
Highlighting tags/wsl/index.html # [tl! focus:1]
Writing to /home/john/projects/runtimeterror/public/abusing-chromes-custom-search-engines-for-fun-and-profit/index.html
Writing to /home/john/projects/runtimeterror/public/auto-connect-to-protonvpn-on-untrusted-wifi-with-tasker/index.html
Writing to /home/john/projects/runtimeterror/public/cat-file-without-comments/index.html # [tl! collapse:start]

          '         *                  +          -O- |
                              o     o                   .
     ___________             0        o        .
   +/-/_"/-/_/-/|      -0-      o        -O-       *     *
   /"-/-_"/-_//||             .    -O-
  /__________/|/|            +  |              *
  |"|_'='-]:+|/||    .     o   -0-      .    *
  |-+-|.|_'-"||//       +   |   | '      '       0
  |[".[:!+-'=|// |         -0-       0             -O-
  |='!+|-:]|-|/ -0-      o  |-0-       0             -O-
   ----------  * |                -O|   +               o
                       o   -O-     -0-    -0-  -O-
     |     +             |   -O-    |
    -0-                 -0-     .        O
 -O- |                   -O-       *

Writing to /home/john/projects/runtimeterror/public/k8s-on-vsphere-node-template-with-packer/index.html # [tl! collapse:end]
Writing to /home/john/projects/runtimeterror/public/tanzu-community-edition-k8s-homelab/index.html
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 1313 (http://0.0.0.0:1313/) ... # [tl! focus:1]
127.0.0.1 - - [07/Nov/2023 20:34:29] "GET /spotlight-on-torchlight/ HTTP/1.1" 200 -

Netlify

Setting up Netlify to leverage the Torchlight API is kind of similar. I'll start with logging in to the Netlify dashboard and navigating to Site Configuration > Environment Variables. There, I'll click on Add a variable > Add a ingle variable. I'll give the new variable a key of TORCHLIGHT_TOKEN and set its value to the token I obtained earlier.

Once that's done, I edit the netlify.toml file at the root of my site repo to alter the build commands:

# torchlight! {"lineNumbers": true}
[build]
  publish = "public"

[build.environment]
  HUGO_VERSION = "0.111.3"

[context.production] # [tl! focus:6]
  command = "hugo" # [tl! -- ++:1,5 reindex(-1):1,1]
  command = """
  hugo --minify
  npm i @torchlight-api/torchlight-cli
  npx torchlight
  """

Now when I git push new content, Netlify will use Hugo to build the site, then install and call Torchlight to ++fancy; the code blocks before the site gets served. Very nice!

#Goals

Of course, I. Just. Can't. leave well enough alone, so my work here isn't finished - not by a long shot.

You see, I'm a sucker for handy "copy" buttons attached to code blocks, and that's not something that Torchlight does (it just returns rendered HTML, remember? No fancy JavaScript here). I also wanted to add informative prompt indicators (like $ and #) to code blocks representing command-line inputs (rather than script files). And I'd like to flag text returned by a command so that only the commands get copied, effectively ignoring the returned text, diff-removed lines, diff markers, line numbers, and prompt indicators.

I had previously implemented a solution based heavily on Aaron Luna's blog post, Hugo: Add Copy-to-Clipboard Button to Code Blocks with Vanilla JS. Getting that Chroma-focused solution to work well with Torchlight-formatted code blocks took some work, particularly since I'm inept at web development and can barely spell "CSS" and "JavaScrapped".

But I⁴ eventually fumbled through the changes required to meet my #goals, and I'm pretty happy with the result.

Custom classes

Remember Torchlight's in-line annotations that I mentioned earlier? They're pretty capable out of the box, but can also be expanded through the use of custom classes. This makes it pretty easy to selectively apply special handling to lines of code, something that's otherwise pretty dang tricky to do with Chroma.

So, for instance, I could add a class .cmd for standard user-level command-line inputs:

# torchlight! {"torchlightAnnotations":false}
sudo make me a sandwich # [tl! .cmd]

sudo make me a sandwich # [tl! .cmd]

Or .cmd_root for a root prompt:

# torchlight! {"torchlightAnnotations": false}
wall "Make your own damn sandwich." # [tl! .cmd_root]

wall "Make your own damn sandwich." # [tl! .cmd_root]

And for deviants:

# torchlight! {"torchlightAnnotations": false}
Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "A taco is a sandwich" # [tl! .cmd_pwsh]

Write-Host -ForegroundColor Green "A taco is a sandwich" # [tl! .cmd_pwsh]

I also came up with a cleverly-named .nocopy class for the returned lines that shouldn't be copyable:

# torchlight! {"torchlightAnnotations": false}
copy this # [tl! .cmd]
but not this # [tl! .nocopy]

copy this # [tl! .cmd]
but not this # [tl! .nocopy]

So that's how I'll tie my custom classes to individual lines of code⁵, but I still need to actually define those classes.

I'll drop those at the bottom of the assets/css/torchlight.css file I created earlier:

// torchlight! {"lineNumbers": true}
/* [tl! collapse:start]
/*********************************************
* Basic styling for Torchlight code blocks.  *
**********************************************/

/*
 Margin and rounding are personal preferences,
 overflow-x-auto is recommended.
*/
pre {
    border-radius: 0.25rem;
    margin-top: 1rem;
    margin-bottom: 1rem;
    overflow-x: auto;
}

/*
 Add some vertical padding and expand the width
 to fill its container. The horizontal padding
 comes at the line level so that background
 colors extend edge to edge.
*/
pre.torchlight {
    display: block;
    min-width: -webkit-max-content;
    min-width: -moz-max-content;
    min-width: max-content;
    padding-top: 1rem;
    padding-bottom: 1rem;
}

/*
 Horizontal line padding to match the vertical
 padding from the code block above.
*/
pre.torchlight .line {
    padding-left: 1rem;
    padding-right: 1rem;
}

/*
 Push the code away from the line numbers and
 summary caret indicators.
*/
pre.torchlight .line-number,
pre.torchlight .summary-caret {
    margin-right: 1rem;
}

/*********************************************
* Focus styling                              *
**********************************************/

/*
  Blur and dim the lines that don't have the `.line-focus` class,
  but are within a code block that contains any focus lines.
*/
.torchlight.has-focus-lines .line:not(.line-focus) {
    transition: filter 0.35s, opacity 0.35s;
    filter: blur(.095rem);
    opacity: .65;
}

/*
  When the code block is hovered, bring all the lines into focus.
*/
.torchlight.has-focus-lines:hover .line:not(.line-focus) {
    filter: blur(0px);
    opacity: 1;
}

/*********************************************
* Collapse styling                           *
**********************************************/

.torchlight summary:focus {
    outline: none;
}

/* Hide the default markers, as we provide our own */
.torchlight details > summary::marker,
.torchlight details > summary::-webkit-details-marker {
    display: none;
}

.torchlight details .summary-caret::after {
    pointer-events: none;
}

/* Add spaces to keep everything aligned */
.torchlight .summary-caret-empty::after,
.torchlight details .summary-caret-middle::after,
.torchlight details .summary-caret-end::after {
    content: " ";
}

/* Show a minus sign when the block is open. */
.torchlight details[open] .summary-caret-start::after {
    content: "-";
}

/* And a plus sign when the block is closed. */
.torchlight details:not([open]) .summary-caret-start::after {
    content: "+";
}

/* Hide the [...] indicator when open. */
.torchlight details[open] .summary-hide-when-open {
    display: none;
}

/* Show the [...] indicator when closed. */
.torchlight details:not([open]) .summary-hide-when-open {
    display: initial;
} /* [tl! collapse:end]

/*********************************************
* Additional styling                         *
**********************************************/

/* Fix for disjointed horizontal scrollbars */
.highlight div {
  overflow-x: visible;
}

/* [tl! focus:start]
Insert prompt indicators on interactive shells.
*/
.cmd::before {
  color: var(--base07);
  content: "$ ";
}

.cmd_root::before {
  color: var(--base08);
  content: "# ";
}

.cmd_pwsh::before {
  color: var(--base07);
  content: "PS> ";
}

/*
Don't copy shell outputs
*/
.nocopy {
  webkit-user-select: none;
  user-select: none;
} /* [tl! focus:end]

The .cmd classes will just insert the respective prompt before each flagged line, and the .nocopy class will make it it so that the lines aren't selectable. Now for the tricky part...

Copy that blocky

There are two major pieces for the code-copy wizardry: the CSS to style/arrange the copy button and language label, and the JavaScript to make it work.

I put the CSS in assets/css/code-copy-button.css. It's basically straight from Aaron's post but with a few stanzas removed, a few elements renamed, and a few values tweaked to fit this site:

// torchlight! {"lineNumbers": true}
/* adapted from https://aaronluna.dev/blog/add-copy-button-to-code-blocks-hugo-chroma/ */

.highlight-wrapper /* already set by torchlight.css [tl! remove:3] */
  display: block;
}
/* [tl! reindex(-4)] */
.highlight {
  position: relative;
  z-index: 0;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0; /* [tl! remove] */
  margin: 40px 0 10px 0; /* a little more breathing room [tl! reindex(-1)] */
  border-radius: 4px;
}

.highlight > .chroma { /* chroma-specific [tl! remove:start] */
  color: #d0d0d0;
  background-color: #212121;
  position: static;
  z-index: 1;
  border-radius: 4px;
  padding: 10px;
}

.chroma .lntd:first-child {
  padding: 7px 7px 7px 10px;
  margin: 0;
}

.chroma .lntd:last-child {
  padding: 7px 10px 7px 7px;
  margin: 0;
}
/* [tl! remove:end] */
.copy-code-button { /* [tl! reindex(-19)] */
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 2;
  right: 0;
  top: 0; /* [tl! remove] */
  top: -29px; /* put the button above the code block instead of in it [tl! reindex(-1)] */
  font-size: 13px;
  font-weight: 700;
  line-height: 14px;
  letter-spacing: 0.5px;
  width: 65px;
  color: #232326;
  background-color: #7f7f7f;
  border: 1.25px solid #232326;
  border-top-left-radius: 0;
  border-top-right-radius: 4px;
  border-bottom-right-radius: 0;
  border-bottom-left-radius: 4px;
  white-space: nowrap;
  padding: 4px 4px 5px 4px;
  margin: 0 0 0 1px;
  cursor: pointer;
  opacity: 0.6;
}

.copy-code-button:hover,
.copy-code-button:focus,
.copy-code-button:active,
.copy-code-button:active:hover {
  color: #222225;
  background-color: #b3b3b3;
  opacity: 0.8;
}

.copyable-text-area {
  position: absolute;
  height: 0;
  z-index: -1;
  opacity: .01;
}

Did I mention that it's fast? ↩︎
(or how to count to eleven) ↩︎
Torchlight is free for sites which don't generate revenue, though it does require a link back to torchlight.dev. I stuck the attribution link in the footer. More pricing info [here]. ↩︎
With a little help from my Copilot buddy... ↩︎
Or ranges of lines, using the same syntax as before: [tl! .nocopy:5] will make this line and the following five uncopyable. ↩︎

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