diff --git a/lib/utils/pipes.js b/lib/utils/pipes.js
index 664f70c7..65184212 100644
--- a/lib/utils/pipes.js
+++ b/lib/utils/pipes.js
@@ -5,6 +5,30 @@ import {isString, stringify, isBlank} from 'angular2/src/facade/lang';
 import {BaseException} from 'angular2/src/facade/exceptions';
 import {JsonPointer} from './JsonPointer';
 import marked from 'marked';
+import Prism from 'prismjs';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-actionscript.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-c.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-cpp.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-csharp.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-php.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-coffeescript.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-go.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-haskell.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-scala.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-java.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-lua.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-matlab.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-objectivec.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-perl.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-python.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-r.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-ruby.js';
+
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-bash.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-swift.js';
+import 'prismjs/components/prism-vim.js';
+
+import 'prismjs/themes/prism-dark.css!css';
 
 marked.setOptions({
   renderer: new marked.Renderer(),
@@ -65,3 +89,31 @@ export class MarkedPipe {
     return `<span class="redoc-markdown-block">${marked(value)}</span>`;
   }
 }
+
+const langMap = {
+  'c++': 'cpp',
+  'c#': 'csharp',
+  'objective-c': 'objectivec',
+  'shell': 'bash',
+  'viml': 'vim'
+};
+
+@Pipe({ name: 'prism' })
+export class PrismPipe {
+  transform(value, args) {
+    if (isBlank(args) || args.length === 0) {
+      throw new BaseException('Prism pipe requires one argument');
+    }
+    if (isBlank(value)) return value;
+    if (!isString(value)) {
+      throw new InvalidPipeArgumentException(JsonPointerEscapePipe, value);
+    }
+    let lang = args[0].toString().trim().toLowerCase();
+    if (langMap[lang]) lang = langMap[lang];
+
+    let grammar = Prism.languages[lang];
+    //fallback to clike
+    if (!grammar) grammar = Prism.languages.clike;
+    return Prism.highlight(value, grammar);
+  }
+}