To share your code with others, you can simply link to your repl or paste and format the code into your post!
Linking to a repl
The easiest way to share your code is by linking to your repl. You can find the link by clicking on your repl title, clicking on Cover page, and clicking the button to copy the URL. NOTE: only share repl join links or use the invite button with people you trust!
Sharing short code samples
Share a snippet of your code by wrapping it in backticks: `. This is especially useful when sharing the name of variables or short lines of code.
Example: someVarName
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`someVarName`
Sharing blocks of code
There are 2 ways to do share longer blocks of code:
The first way (preferred) is with ```. You can even add language abbreviations like js for Javascript and py for Python to enable syntax highlighting.
Example:
console.log("Hello World!")
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```js
console.log("Hello World!")
```
The other way to format large blocks of code are indent it by 4 spaces at the minimum. For example:
Iām wondering about code syntax highlightingā¦ According to the docs on code blocks (which is referenced in this post), there should be syntax highlighting for languages, but there isnātā¦ there is some syntax highlighting if no language is specified, but if the language is specified, there is no highlighting at allā¦
Code highlighting has always been weird on discourse and I never fully figured it out.
There is a setting to enable and disable code hightlighting for different languages. @IanAtCSTeach can you share a screenshot of that and update the guide accordingly?
Discourse automatically detects the language and highlights it as such.
Sometimes there is sometimes there is not.
console.log("test")
When I make an edit to improve formatting I may just do the wrong abbreviation after the first backticks making it so there is no highlighting. If you notice I did that going on feel free to send me a message and I will fix it.
Hmmā¦ actually it seems that code formatting is working fine, itās just that despite the fact that the docs state js should work for syntax highlighting, it doesnātā¦
js:
console.log(123);
javascript:
console.log(123);
Same with Python actually: py:
print(123)
python:
print(123)
It seems the shortcut names which are supposed to work donātā¦
Actually, not even the shortcut names, it just seems only certain names work, like for C++ only c++ seems to work, not cpp or cplusplus as stated in the docs, and for C# only csharp works, not csā¦
@MattDESTROYER I found this meta post and these docs on what supported languages areĀ¹ and what the aliases are. For example python, py and gyp should all work for Python. And javascript, js and jsx should all work for Javascript. I can ask over on meta if you want me to.
Cover page, and clicking the 
button to copy the URL.