diff --git a/templates/monogame/public/hlsl.js b/templates/monogame/public/hlsl.js
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+/*
+Language: HLSL
+Description: High-level shader language
+Author: Stef Levesque
+Website: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/direct3dhlsl/dx-graphics-hlsl
+Category: graphics
+
+From: https://github.com/highlightjs/highlightjs-hlsl/blob/master/src/languages/hlsl.js
+License: MIT https://github.com/highlightjs/highlightjs-hlsl/blob/master/LICENSE
+*/
+
+const HLSL_NUMBER_RE = '(-?)(\\b0[xX][a-fA-F0-9]+|(\\b\\d+(\\.\\d*)?([hHfFlL]?)|\\.\\d+)([eE][-+]?\\d+)?([hHfFlL]?))';
+
+const HLSL_NUMBER_MODE = {
+  className: 'number',
+  begin: HLSL_NUMBER_RE,
+  relevance: 0
+};
+
+export default function(hljs) {
+  let matrixBases =
+    'bool double float half int uint ' +
+    'min16float min10float min16int min12int min16uint';
+
+  let matrixSuffixes = [
+    '',
+    '1', '2', '3', '4',
+    '1x1', '1x2', '1x3', '1x4',
+    '2x1', '2x2', '2x3', '2x4',
+    '3x1', '3x2', '3x3', '3x4',
+    '4x1', '4x2', '4x3', '4x4'
+  ];
+
+  let matrixTypes = [];
+  for (let base of matrixBases.split(' ')) {
+    for (let suffix of matrixSuffixes) {
+      matrixTypes.push(base + suffix);
+    }
+  }
+
+  let semanticsSV =
+    'SV_Coverage SV_Depth SV_DispatchThreadID SV_DomainLocation ' +
+    'SV_GroupID SV_GroupIndex SV_GroupThreadID SV_GSInstanceID SV_InnerCoverage SV_InsideTessFactor ' +
+    'SV_InstanceID SV_IsFrontFace SV_OutputControlPointID SV_Position SV_PrimitiveID ' +
+    'SV_RenderTargetArrayIndex SV_SampleIndex SV_StencilRef SV_TessFactor SV_VertexID ' +
+    'SV_ViewportArrayIndex, SV_ShadingRate';
+
+  let semanticsNum =
+    'BINORMAL BLENDINDICES BLENDWEIGHT COLOR NORMAL POSITION PSIZE TANGENT TEXCOORD TESSFACTOR DEPTH ' +
+    'SV_ClipDistance SV_CullDistance SV_DepthGreaterEqual SV_DepthLessEqual SV_Target ' +
+    'SV_CLIPDISTANCE SV_CULLDISTANCE SV_DEPTHGREATEREQUAL SV_DEPTHLESSEQUAL SV_TARGET';
+
+  let semanticsTypes = semanticsNum.split(' ');
+  for (let s of semanticsNum.split(' ')) {
+    for (let n of Array(16).keys()) {
+      semanticsTypes.push(s + n.toString());
+    }
+  }
+
+  return {
+    name: 'HLSL',
+    keywords: {
+      keyword:
+        'AppendStructuredBuffer asm asm_fragment BlendState break Buffer ByteAddressBuffer case ' +
+        'cbuffer centroid class column_major compile compile_fragment CompileShader const continue ' +
+        'ComputeShader ConsumeStructuredBuffer default DepthStencilState DepthStencilView discard do ' +
+        'DomainShader dword else export extern false for fxgroup GeometryShader groupshared ' +
+        'Hullshader if in inline inout InputPatch interface line lineadj linear LineStream ' +
+        'matrix namespace nointerpolation noperspective ' +
+        'NULL out OutputPatch packoffset pass pixelfragment PixelShader point PointStream precise ' +
+        'RasterizerState RenderTargetView return register row_major RWBuffer RWByteAddressBuffer ' +
+        'RWStructuredBuffer RWTexture1D RWTexture1DArray RWTexture2D RWTexture2DArray RWTexture3D sample ' +
+        'sampler SamplerState SamplerComparisonState shared snorm stateblock stateblock_state static string ' +
+        'struct switch StructuredBuffer tbuffer technique technique10 technique11 texture Texture1D ' +
+        'Texture1DArray Texture2D Texture2DArray Texture2DMS Texture2DMSArray Texture3D TextureCube ' +
+        'TextureCubeArray true typedef triangle triangleadj TriangleStream uint uniform unorm unsigned ' +
+        'vector vertexfragment VertexShader void volatile while',
+      type:
+        matrixTypes.join(' ') + ' ' +
+        'Buffer vector matrix sampler SamplerState PixelShader VertexShader ' +
+        'texture Texture1D Texture1DArray Texture2D Texture2DArray Texture2DMS Texture2DMSArray Texture3D ' +
+        'TextureCube TextureCubeArray struct typedef',
+      built_in:
+        'POSITIONT FOG PSIZE VFACE VPOS ' +
+        semanticsTypes.join(' ') + ' ' +
+        semanticsSV + ' ' +
+        semanticsSV.toUpperCase() + ' ' +
+        'abort abs acos all AllMemoryBarrier AllMemoryBarrierWithGroupSync any asdouble asfloat asin asint asuint ' +
+        'atan atan2 ceil CheckAccessFullyMapped clamp clip cos cosh countbits cross D3DCOLORtoUBYTE4 ddx ddx_coarse ' +
+        'ddx_fine ddy ddy_coarse ddy_fine degrees determinant DeviceMemoryBarrier DeviceMemoryBarrierWithGroupSync ' +
+        'distance dot dst errorf EvaluateAttributeAtCentroid EvaluateAttributeAtSample EvaluateAttributeSnapped ' +
+        'exp exp2 f16tof32 f32tof16 faceforward firstbithigh firstbitlow floor fma fmod frac frexp fwidth ' +
+        'GetRenderTargetSampleCount GetRenderTargetSamplePosition GroupMemoryBarrier GroupMemoryBarrierWithGroupSync ' +
+        'InterlockedAdd InterlockedAnd InterlockedCompareExchange InterlockedCompareStore InterlockedExchange ' +
+        'InterlockedMax InterlockedMin InterlockedOr InterlockedXor isfinite isinf isnan ldexp length lerp lit log ' +
+        'log10 log2 mad max min modf msad4 mul noise normalize pow printf Process2DQuadTessFactorsAvg ' +
+        'Process2DQuadTessFactorsMax Process2DQuadTessFactorsMin ProcessIsolineTessFactors ProcessQuadTessFactorsAvg ' +
+        'ProcessQuadTessFactorsMax ProcessQuadTessFactorsMin ProcessTriTessFactorsAvg ProcessTriTessFactorsMax ' +
+        'ProcessTriTessFactorsMin radians rcp reflect refract reversebits round rsqrt saturate sign sin sincos sinh ' +
+        'smoothstep sqrt step tan tanh tex1D tex1Dbias tex1Dgrad tex1Dlod tex1Dproj tex2D tex2Dbias tex2Dgrad ' +
+        'tex2Dlod tex2Dproj tex3D tex3Dbias tex3Dgrad tex3Dlod tex3Dproj texCUBE texCUBEbias texCUBEgrad texCUBElod ' +
+        'texCUBEproj transpose trunc',
+      literal: 'true false'
+    },
+    illegal: '"',
+    contains: [
+      hljs.C_LINE_COMMENT_MODE,
+      hljs.C_BLOCK_COMMENT_MODE,
+      HLSL_NUMBER_MODE,
+      {
+        className: 'meta',
+        begin: '#', end: '$'
+      }
+    ]
+  };
+}
diff --git a/templates/monogame/public/main.js b/templates/monogame/public/main.js
index 1a560495..c8bb9fef 100644
--- a/templates/monogame/public/main.js
+++ b/templates/monogame/public/main.js
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+import hlslLanguage from './hlsl.js';
+
 export default {
-    defaultTheme: 'dark'
+  defaultTheme: 'dark',
+  configureHljs: (hljs) => {
+    hljs.registerLanguage('hlsl', hlslLanguage);
+  }
 }