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Show HN: Monod, our secure Markdown editor built with React

12 points by couac 10y ago

fiatjaf 10y ago
That's nice, but why is it better than https://stackedit.io/editor https://stackedit.io/editor or http://dillinger.io/ http://dillinger.io/? is it open-source? I wish I had a better Markdown editor for http://templates.alhur.es/ http://templates.alhur.es/ -- although a React dependency wouldn't be good for the page size.
- couac 10y ago
  We needed a way to support templates, because we really write any kind of documents in Markdown. AFAIK StackEdit does not support templates like we implemented. I did not know Dillinger, which seems to be close to StackEdit. So if I had to quickly benchmark, I'd say: Monod has this notion of templates, speaks CommonMark (no hackish markdown), and is offline-first. Yet, the main reason we wrote it was to learn React.js. We are working on open sourcing it this week!
nikolay 10y ago
Unfortunately, it's not open-sourced (yet?): https://github.com/tailordev https://github.com/tailordev
- couac 10y ago
  It will be open source this week. I am currently working on it, so stay tuned :)
  - nikolay 10y ago
    Okay, but why the downvote?
    - couac 10y ago
      What do you mean? I did not downvote anything. That was a good (and expected) question/comment.
      - nikolay 10y ago
        Thanks! Sorry, but almost at the same time you replied somebody downvoted me. I apologize!
detaro 10y ago
How hard would it be to export a flat HTML version of the rendered document? Extract the DOM somehow, discard the react-specifics, ...? Or would it be easier to push the Markdown into a dedicated renderer? EDIT: thanks at fiatjaf for mentioning alternatives, Dillinger has HTML export already.
- couac 10y ago
  mmh, it would be relatively easy but why would you do that? I'd be glad to know your use case.
  - detaro 10y ago
    Write HTML files to share online. If you use Markdown, you always need a conversion somewhere, PDFs are big and slow, ... HTML file I can do basic formatting, throw some default CSS on it and it looks and feels good on basically any device, can be e-mailed, ...
    - couac 10y ago
      Makes perfectly sense, thanks!
- 8note 10y ago
  That's basically server side rendering; ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup would do it? I on't know if it affects a real DOM though; it might have weird side effects on the app.
tacone 10y ago
The Github page says William Durand is part of the company. A nice surprise and some fond memories: he has been the mantainer of Propel ORM for several years. I miss Propel and I feel thankful for it. Propel had is own problems, but it was the fastest and sanest way to develop the db layer I've ever used. I wish you good luck with your new venture, William!
- couac 10y ago
  hehe thank you!
couac 10y ago
It is open source now! https://github.com/TailorDev/monod https://github.com/TailorDev/monod

12 points by couac 10y ago

That's nice, but why is it better than https://stackedit.io/editor https://stackedit.io/editor or http://dillinger.io/ http://dillinger.io/? is it open-source? I wish I had a better Markdown editor for http://templates.alhur.es/ http://templates.alhur.es/ -- although a React dependency wouldn't be good for the page size.

couac 10y ago
We needed a way to support templates, because we really write any kind of documents in Markdown. AFAIK StackEdit does not support templates like we implemented. I did not know Dillinger, which seems to be close to StackEdit. So if I had to quickly benchmark, I'd say: Monod has this notion of templates, speaks CommonMark (no hackish markdown), and is offline-first. Yet, the main reason we wrote it was to learn React.js. We are working on open sourcing it this week!

nikolay 10y ago

Unfortunately, it's not open-sourced (yet?): https://github.com/tailordev https://github.com/tailordev

couac 10y ago
It will be open source this week. I am currently working on it, so stay tuned :)
- nikolay 10y ago
  Okay, but why the downvote?
  - couac 10y ago
    What do you mean? I did not downvote anything. That was a good (and expected) question/comment.
    - nikolay 10y ago
      Thanks! Sorry, but almost at the same time you replied somebody downvoted me. I apologize!

detaro 10y ago

How hard would it be to export a flat HTML version of the rendered document? Extract the DOM somehow, discard the react-specifics, ...? Or would it be easier to push the Markdown into a dedicated renderer? EDIT: thanks at fiatjaf for mentioning alternatives, Dillinger has HTML export already.

couac 10y ago
mmh, it would be relatively easy but why would you do that? I'd be glad to know your use case.
- detaro 10y ago
  Write HTML files to share online. If you use Markdown, you always need a conversion somewhere, PDFs are big and slow, ... HTML file I can do basic formatting, throw some default CSS on it and it looks and feels good on basically any device, can be e-mailed, ...
  - couac 10y ago
    Makes perfectly sense, thanks!
8note 10y ago
That's basically server side rendering; ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup would do it? I on't know if it affects a real DOM though; it might have weird side effects on the app.

tacone 10y ago

The Github page says William Durand is part of the company. A nice surprise and some fond memories: he has been the mantainer of Propel ORM for several years. I miss Propel and I feel thankful for it. Propel had is own problems, but it was the fastest and sanest way to develop the db layer I've ever used. I wish you good luck with your new venture, William!

couac 10y ago
hehe thank you!

couac 10y ago

It is open source now! https://github.com/TailorDev/monod https://github.com/TailorDev/monod