Code Blocks for Confluence — Which Syntax Highlighting App Should You Choose?
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Engineering teams document APIs, share runbooks, and write code reviews in Confluence every day. But the built-in code macro hasn't kept up — limited language support, no dark mode, no line numbers, and a bare-bones editing experience.
Several third-party apps try to fill this gap. We built Modern Code Blocks for Confluence to bring the Monaco Editor (the engine behind VS Code) into Confluence pages. In this post we compare it against the alternatives so you can pick the right one.