Ace / Monaco: Custom syntax highlighter

[ralphwetzel]

I'm looking for a way to add a custom syntax highlighter to the Ace/Monaco editor.
@knolleary stated a long time ago:

How to add custom syntax checksum highlighting in the edit box

We only provide a subset of the default ace modes and there is no way to add in other ones. But we have discussed providing the whole lot (which includes graphqlschema) - so we can look at doing that in 1.0

Is there meanwhile an API or a hack to achieve this?

[Steve-Mcl]

@ralphwetzel

Is there meanwhile an API or a hack to achieve this

There is no official API so it would have to be a hack by accessing the built-in functions of the Monaco editor.

But, if we swap out the editor or Monaco changes its API your changes would fail.

Is it a completely custom syntax or an established syntax you require?

[ralphwetzel]

@Steve-Mcl

Is it a completely custom syntax or an established syntax you require?

A bit of both: A custom template syntax to operate with css, html & javascript.

[Steve-Mcl]

Do you have a working syntax highlighter already?

[ralphwetzel]

Well... why do you ask?
Are you going to spend time in creating one if it wasn't available?

[Steve-Mcl]

No, but I may have included it along side the other highlighters in the node-red repository.