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Show HN: MarkRight – Electron-powered GitHub-flavored Markdown editor
- wh-uws 11y agoJust downloaded looks slick. Make it so I can open multiple windows and I'll be glad to quit stackedit for you. https://stackedit.io/ https://stackedit.io/ Note im a windows user
- bengotow 11y agoThis is awesome—I use Mou right now, but going to try switching to this for a while. This really highlights the need to create some sort of shared library from Electron's core, though. I've probably got a half dozen copies of Chromium bundled into various apps now!
- dvcrn 11y agoGlad to hear. I killed most bugs before posting it here but if you notice something odd while using it, please submit a issue on github right away. You could probably symlink `Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework` (on mac) to something like ~/.electron to get rid of the duplicated core (and around 100mb per app). Though I didn't try that yet.
- jnpatel 11y agoFor those not familiar with Electron: http://electron.atom.io/ http://electron.atom.io/
- IceyEC 11y agoThis is what I've been looking for! Thank you!
- epmatsw 11y agoWhat does this offer over Atom and its built-in markdown preview plugin?
- dvcrn 11y agoYou are right, people that already use Atom probably have a solution inside the editor. I use a different set of tools and sometimes need something I can use to edit my markdown files with a as-close-as-possible github preview.
- nathancahill 11y agoHow does it compare to MacDown and Mou?
- stephenr 11y agoI guess it depends what your priorities are. Personally I find MacDown to be a great replacement for Mou, LightPaper may also be appealing to some people. All of these are native apps, i don't see what this app could offer that would make up for being non native.
- GeorgeHahn 11y agoWonderful! This works perfectly on my HiDPI Windows 10 laptop (as opposed to MarkdownPad, which requires an ugly hack).
- d1ffuz0r 11y ago0 days since new markdown editor
- scrollaway 11y ago1 hour since last unnecessary cynic comment about hobby projects.
- gglanzani 11y agoThis is so nice, congrats. Is there any way to add styling on the preview?
- dvcrn 11y agoCurrently not but since the preview is just normal HTML, all we <technically> have to do is load a different css file. You could of course also change the shipped css file and build your own version.
- fiatjaf 11y agoWhy not make it work on the browser?
- dvcrn 11y agoThere are a lot web based markdown previewers. You could even go to github and use the 'preview' feature when editing a README.
- katabasis 11y agoThis is great, thanks for sharing! It's funny, I was just thinking about trying to use Electron for a markdown editor project. I work in an academic environment and fantasize about luring writers and editors away from MS Word into Markdown. Unfortunately it looks like the Marked library (the most popular JS parser) doesn't support extensions like footnotes, which are critical for my use-case. My ultimate dream would be to have an Electron-based markdown editor that supports inline "tracked changes" through something like git.js[1], sort of like a desktop version of prose.io. Care to share any thoughts about the experience of working in the Electron platform? [1]: https://github.com/danlucraft/git.js https://github.com/danlucraft/git.js
- brbsix 11y agoWow that's somewhat scary to hear so many people in academia are using MS Word. Most papers I read are done in LaTeX and I just assumed the rest were done on OSX (with whatever they use). Here's a good article I found a while back when I was looking into using Markdown for academic papers: http://blog.cigrainger.com/2014/07/pandoc-markdown.html http://blog.cigrainger.com/2014/07/pandoc-markdown.html