I think most folks who are comfortable with markdown would agree with this (including me). When I needed a markdown editor for my current project (https://www.

I think most folks who are comfortable with markdown would agree with this (including me). When I needed a markdown editor for my current project (https://www.contabulo.com https://www.contabulo.com), I just forked SimpleMDE (https://github.com/Ionaru/simplemde-markdown-editor https://github.com/Ionaru/simplemde-markdown-editor), which is my favorite so far, and started hacking at it to add application-specific functionality (amusingly, bringing in a markdown editor about doubled the size of my application javascript over just using a plain 'ol html textbox -- but nobody likes a plain textbox). I'm personally dubious on live preview as well, depending on the use case. I usually don't find it very useful - unless saving/publishing is some sort of final, irreversible action (submitting resumes to jobs, etc.) :) OTOH, novice users may like the markdown being obscured, so maybe it's all just a matter of taste.