Codex 🦕
Codex is an in-development (status: alpha) WYSIWYG editor for the developer community.
The purpose of Codex is to make note-taking, publishing to the web, and new forms of self-expression accessible to the developer community.
The current alpha is hosted on Netlify at codex-wysiwyg.netlify.app.
Feedback about all aspects of Codex are welcome. You’re welcome to:
With Codex, you’ll be able to:
- Author on the web in a well-behaved WYSIWYG editor.
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All modern desktop browsers will be supported, including iOS. - Use markdown syntax as shortcuts for WYSIWYG formatting.
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For example,**bold**→<strong>bold</strong>. - Author inline code and code blocks with dynamic syntax highlighting.
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You, dear developer, are a respected member of society. - Cut, copy, and paste as markdown.
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Never lose the semantic meaning of your documents. This also means your documents will be interoperable with Notion! - Render to GitHub Flavored Markdown and semantic HTML in realtime.
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Bootstrap your next project by using Codex to generate your content. - Customize the editor’s aesthetic to your needs.
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Light mode, dark mode, and support for colorful themes. - Auto-generate table-of-contents.
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Codex generates document-unique links for every header element and generates a table-of-contents for you, for every document. - Forget markdown syntax?!
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Is he serious?? - More!
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Current Status
The Codex editor is currently: alpha status.
Missing MVP features:
- Support for pending formatting ranges (e.g. formatting without a selection)
- Support for multiline elements;
<blockquote>,<ul>, etc. - Support for media elements;
<img>, etc. - Support for markdown-to-WYSIWYG transformations
- Support for clipboard operations (cut, copy, paste)
- Support for history operations (undo, redo)
Planned (future) features:
- Support for more inline elements
- Support for custom search
- Support for custom cursors
- Support for collaborative editing
License
Codex WYSIWYG is open source software licensed as MIT.
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