Markdown Editor

BlameDylan

Hello everyone!
I've seen similar topics like these before, however, I'd like to give my two cents on a Markdown Editor. I did some searching today and found SimpleMDE - Markdown Editor. It is licensed under the MIT license and it think with a tad of modification we could get it to work in Flarum.

Here is a screenshot:

SimpleMDE
Please note that I did not create this nor contributed to it. Here is the Github Page. Thanks for building the best open source forum software to date!

BlackSheep

BlameDylan Hey, i think there is something like that in the work but it will indeed make a great extension 😉

JoshyPHP

I'd love it if the editor didn't use 212 KB of JavaScript. 🙁

ameo

JoshyPHP what you're trying to say is - this way you just like it, and will exension it still?!? 🙂

PLS. pretty pls! :puppyeyes: 😃

JoshyPHP

It's not relating to my library, anybody can implement it really. It ships with its own Markdown library already and does not have to interface with anything server side, it's just UI. Actually, I think it ships with two Markdown library for some reason.

ameo

JoshyPHP so, this puzzles me. You say it's not related to your library, but your library supports markdown.
couldn't you somehow integrate/implement visuals/looks of this into your library to our joy and eternal gratitude.
and some kind of donation in future, for your troubles.

Wombat

It looks nice but is there a way to put the editor into 1 .js file and jscompress.com it? I don't want to waste 4 http requests loading it. And we can reduce the size greatly by jscompressing it (uglify)

JoshyPHP

Wombat we can reduce the size greatly by jscompressing it

I don't think you can reduce the effective size by minifying it or compressing the source. You can save a few KB (~5KB I think?) if you reminify it with a better minifier like Google Closure Compiler but that's it. If you compress the source with something like Dean Edwards's Packer, the source will appear much smaller but there's no gain on the wire if the server supports gzip. It's about ~70 KB gzipped either way.

lchengin

It looks great!

wumix

How to integrate this to flarum.

JoshyPHP

An editor could integrate the library, not the other way around. A Markdown library translates Markdown into HTML, that's probably the easiest part of such an editor.

It doesn't seem like the editor uses a Markdown library to parse the text. marked is used for preview but the editor itself (CodeMirror actually) uses its own routines to parse the markup.

ameo

JoshyPHP that's what I actually meant to ask - could you/would you integrate your library in editor?

skysaurabhv

I can not see tool set in current Markdown Editor