clinthowarth / dillinger

The last Markdown editor, ever.

Dillinger

Dillinger is a cloud-enabled HTML5 Markdown editor.

• Type some Markdown text in the left window
• See the HTML in the right
• Magic

Markdown is a lightweight markup language based on the formatting conventions that people naturally use in email. As John Gruber writes on the [Markdown site] 1:

The overriding design goal for Markdown's formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.

This text your see here is actually written in Markdown! To get a feel for Markdown's syntax, type some text into the left window and watch the results in the right.

Version

2.0

Tech

Dillinger uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• Ace Editor - awesome web-based text editor
• Showdown - a port of Markdown to JavaScript
• Twitter Bootstrap - great UI boilerplate for modern web apps
• node.js - evented I/O for the backend
• Express - fast node.js network app framework @tjholowaychuk
• keymaster.js - awesome keyboard handler lib by @thomasfuchs
• jQuery - duh

Installation

1. Clone the repo
2. cd dillinger
3. npm i
4. mkdir -p public/files
5. mkdir -p public/files/md && mkdir -p public/files/html
6. sudo node app

License

MIT

Free Software, Fuck Yeah!