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Marcdown
👻 Lightweight markdown viewer and editor by Liyas Thomas
Features ✨
❤️ Lightweight and minimal: Crafted with minimalistic UI design
🔌 Real-time editor: WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) markdown editor using MarkedJS
- Built for speed
- Light-weight while implementing all markdown features from the supported flavors & specifications.
🖊 Code highlighting: Syntax highlighting with highlightjs
- 185 languages and 89 styles
- Automatic language detection
- Multi-language code highlighting
📐 Math support: MathJax for LaTeX, MathML, and AsciiMath notations
- Use MathML, TeX, and ASCIImath as input and produce HTML+CSS, SVG, or MathML as output.
🌐 PWA: Progressive web app.
- Works offline after first use
- Install as a Web app on your phone or Desktop app on your PC
⚡️ Real-time viewer: View changes as you type
🖐 Drag and drop: Grab a markdown file and drop to the editor
📜 Scroll sync: Editor and viewer scroll along with you
🌙 Dark mode: Turn the lights off!
Getting started
These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.
Prerequisites
What things you need to install the software and how to install them.
- Marcdown can be embedded into any web page consisting a
<textarea></textarea>tag. - A browser with ES6 support.
- Wonder! ❤️
Demo
https://liyasthomas.github.io/marcdown
- Paste/type markdown on left
- View preview on right
- Save Markdown file
You're done!
Installing
A step by step series of examples that tell you've to get a development environment running.
Step 1: Include MarkedJS and Marcdown.js
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/marked/marked.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/liyasthomas/marcdown/marcdown.min.js"></script>
Step 2: Define a <textarea id="getm" onkeyup="keyUp()"></textarea> tag inside <body></body>
<textarea id="getm" placeholder="paste markdown here ✨" onkeyup="keyUp()"></textarea>
Step 3: Define a <div id="viewer"></div> tag inside <body></body>
<div id="viewer"></div>
Step 4: Define buttons with actions such as bold, italic, strike, h1, ul, ol, code, link etc.
<button onclick="apply('bold')" title="Bold">B</button>
Full list of actions:
<button onclick="apply('bold')" title="Bold">B</button>
<button onclick="apply('italic')" title="Italic"><i>I</i></button>
<button onclick="apply('strike')" title="Strikethrough"><strike>S</strike></button>
<button onclick="apply('h1')" title="Header 1">H1</button>
<button onclick="apply('h2')" title="Header 2">H2</button>
<button onclick="apply('h3')" title="Header 3">H3</button>
<button onclick="apply('ul')" title="Unordered list">●</button>
<button onclick="apply('ol')" title="Ordered list">1.</button>
<button onclick="apply('check')" title="Check list">✔</button>
<button onclick="apply('bq')" title="Blockquote">””</button>
<button onclick="apply('ic')" title="Inline code">I<></button>
<button onclick="apply('bc')" title="Block code"><>B</button>
<button onclick="apply('link')" title="Link">A</button>
<button onclick="apply('image')" title="Image">I</button>
<button onclick="apply('hr')" title="Horizontal rule">——</button>
<button onclick="apply('table')" title="Table">⚏</button>
Example HTML file:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Marcdown</title>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/marked/marked.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/liyasthomas/marcdown/marcdown.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<textarea id="getm" placeholder="paste markdown here ✨" onkeyup="keyUp()"></textarea>
<button onclick="apply('bold')" title="Bold">B</button>
<button onclick="apply('italic')" title="Italic"><i>I</i></button>
<button onclick="apply('strike')" title="Strikethrough"><strike>S</strike></button>
<button onclick="apply('h1')" title="Header 1">H1</button>
<button onclick="apply('h2')" title="Header 2">H2</button>
<button onclick="apply('h3')" title="Header 3">H3</button>
<button onclick="apply('ul')" title="Unordered list">●</button>
<button onclick="apply('ol')" title="Ordered list">1.</button>
<button onclick="apply('check')" title="Check list">✔</button>
<button onclick="apply('bq')" title="Blockquote">””</button>
<button onclick="apply('ic')" title="Inline code">I<></button>
<button onclick="apply('bc')" title="Block code"><>B</button>
<button onclick="apply('link')" title="Link">A</button>
<button onclick="apply('image')" title="Image">I</button>
<button onclick="apply('hr')" title="Horizontal rule">——</button>
<button onclick="apply('table')" title="Table">⚏</button>
<div class="markdown" id="viewer"></div>
</body>
</html>
Deployment
Add additional notes about how to deploy this on a live system.
Will be explained later
Built with
- MarkedJS - For markdown parser
- highlightjs - For code highlighting
- MathJax - For LaTeX, MathML, and AsciiMath notations
- Chromium - Thanks for being so fast!
- HTML - For the web framework
- CSS - For styling components
- JavaScript - For magic!
Contributing
Please read CONTRIBUTING for details on our CODE OF CONDUCT, and the process for submitting pull requests to us.
Continuous Integration
We use Travis CI for continuous integration. Check out our Travis CI Status.
Versioning
This project is developed by Liyas Thomas using the Semantic Versioning specification. For the versions available, see the releases on this repository.
Change log
See the CHANGELOG file for details.
Authors
Lead Developers
- Liyas Thomas - Author
Thanks
See the list of contributors who participated in this project.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.