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.
2.0
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
git clone [git-repo-url] dillinger
cd dillinger
npm i -d
mkdir -p public/files/{md,html,pdf}
node appMIT
Free Software, Fuck Yeah!