react-highlight-words is a React component designed to highlight specific words or phrases within a larger block of text. It enhances user experience by visually emphasizing search terms or keywords. The package supports various highlighting styles, custom class names, and sanitization of input text to prevent XSS vulnerabilities. It's highly configurable, enabling developers to tailor the highlighting to match their application's specific design and functional requirements. This package improves readability and quickly draws the user's attention to relevant portions of text.
As of September 11, 2025, react-highlight-words' release frequency shows an initial burst of activity in 2016-2018, with frequent updates. Releases slowed significantly after 2019, with sporadic updates in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2025. The package has not had a release in the last 8 months.
React-highlight-words downloads show a generally increasing trend from March 2024 to August 2025, peaking at 3.1 million in July 2025. However, September 2025 downloads are significantly lower, at just over 1 million, likely due to being an incomplete month.
