Requesting adding support for the Solidity language

[Genesis3800]

Problem

Solidity is a popular language used to write smart contracts.
Projects in Web3 are starting to use Mdbook to document Solidity based frameworks.
For example: https://book.getfoundry.sh/

Highlight.js docs show that they support Solidity.

Proposed Solution

I propose that I be allowed to create a PR that adds native support for the Solidity language inside mdbook, so that folks don't have to use custom JS.

Notes

No response

[MarcusWentz]

I found a work around for this.

Foundry Book supports Solidity syntax highlighting.

To copy this setup with a new mdbook project:

1. In book.toml for your mdbook project, go to output.html to add additional-js with the following path:

[output.html]
additional-js = ["src/static/solidity.min.js"]

2. Copy the solidity.min.js file in Foundry Book:
   https://github.com/foundry-rs/book/blob/master/src/static/solidity.min.js
   into the path just like Foundry Book for mdbook to load.

[Genesis3800]

That's exactly what I ended up doing @MarcusWentz .
Back then I was big into solidity and set up a bit of a 'foundry book' of my own (https://www.solidity-in-foundry.com/index.html)

Took a lot of inspiration from the foundry book tbh.

[nickspurry]

If highlight.js already supports a language you want that isn't included in mdbook by default, you can supply a custom version of highlight.js to override the default version.

The simplest way is to download a custom build directly from https://highlightjs.org/download where you can select the languages to include. In this case, highlight.js might need to be built from source since it requires an additional package for support.

Follow the instructions at https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/format/theme/index.html to override the default highlight.js file like you would any other default theme file.