# Example: Monaco + Shiki theme sync
This minimal example shows how to keep Monaco editor themes and standalone Shiki-rendered code snippets in sync.
Goal
- Register (or pre-register) themes and languages for both Monaco and Shiki.
- Optionally reuse the returned Shiki highlighter from `registerMonacoThemes` for rendering HTML snippets.
Files
- A simple Vue component (see snippet below) that:
- calls `registerMonacoThemes` to preload themes & languages,
- creates an editor and uses a preloaded Shiki highlighter for manual preview rendering,
- switches theme via `setTheme` and also renders a Shiki HTML snippet using the returned highlighter.
Quick steps
1. Create a new Vite + Vue project (or use the existing `examples/streaming-demo` as base).
2. Install package dependencies (you need `vue`, `monaco-editor`, `shiki`, and this library locally or from npm).
3. Add the component below and run the dev server.
Running the example
- From the repository root (recommended with pnpm workspaces):
```bash
pnpm install
pnpm --filter ./examples/shiki-sync dev
```
- Or inside the example directory:
```bash
cd examples/shiki-sync
pnpm install
pnpm dev
```
Retry behavior
- The example UI shows a small "Retry" button if loading themes fails (e.g. network or build issue). Click it to re-attempt preloading themes & languages.
Vue component (single-file component)
```vue
```
Notes
- `registerMonacoThemes` now returns the Shiki highlighter Promise — you can reuse it to render static snippets or to call `setTheme` on the highlighter directly.
If you need to keep standalone Shiki-rendered snippets in sync when changing the editor theme, call `registerMonacoThemes(...)` to obtain the Shiki highlighter and then call its `setTheme(...)` / `codeToHtml(...)` methods yourself. The example demonstrates preloading and manual usage.
- If you preload a *full* set of themes & languages at app start, the library will reuse the same highlighter instance and avoid re-creating it on theme changes.
Troubleshooting
- If Shiki's `codeToHtml` isn't exposed on the highlighter build you use (some builds differ), you can still call `setTheme` on the highlighter and re-run your own rendering pipeline.
- For large numbers of themes/languages, consider on-demand loading to reduce startup cost: preload the common ones and lazily call `registerMonacoThemes` for others.