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I built an open-source markdown editor called Fast Author to improve my productivity when creating written articles specific for t...
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Just started using Typora, but maybe it's time to switch :)
Nice, but I think you built it because you couldn't find a tool that had all the features you want built-in. The line about it not being fast enough is to do with workflow, not the editor.
I mean, Vim is pretty fast at editing markdown, but it doesn't have image editing features, and that's ok. Other people's workflows will be to use an image editor to edit images and a text editor to edit text. Building a behemoth is fine, but it's not going to speed up other people's workflows.
I thought that was obvious. I guess I'll do more exposition dumps in the future.
What's your point here? I built it for me. If you're doing the same kind of content creation as me then it will absolutely speed up your workflow.
I totally understand your motivation. I've written several Electron-based markdown editors in a struggle to do the same as you. Though I think I made my scope too large to satisfy.
The current editors out there are really not good enough because many tools are great for writing but not for editing, publishing, or writing multi-markdown documents.
Inkdrop comes as close as possible since it has taken a modular approach where you can install various plugins, though InkDrop has yet to reach the maturity which will satisfy my needs.
How I Built a Markdown Editor Earning $1300/mo Profit — Inkdrop
Takuya Matsuyama ・ Feb 4 ・ 9 min read
This is awesome, as someone in the middle of writing a ton of markdown content I share your pain with the existing editors out there so will be giving this a try!
One thing I am curious about - grammarly. Did you manage to get this working? It's super tedious copy/pasting into their online editor to check things constantly.
Not yet, but its fairly easy to load Chrome Extensions into Electron:
Just have to download the extension and then use the Electron API
addDevToolsExtension
electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/devto...
Its a pain point for myself as well. I'm just in the middle of publishing a 10 hour course, so something that show up on Fast-Author in a week or two
Wow, well done.
Very nice.
Nice work :)
Blam-o!
I'll have to check it out.
Its much more stable today. Once you make a project public you realize you can't just keep pushing random commits.
Amazing job. Since I write blogs too, I wanted to build something like this but it uploads to Imgur so that I don’t have to manually upload to Imgur & link images to it. I’ll probably build it 😂
Good Job Andrew, an amazing project you built!
Nice to see another Mithril user. One of the most underrated libs around, and my personal go to for years when I'm on a tight deadline. Really nice work.
For those who thought "SharpJS, what???" like I did, Andrew was referring to Sharp (sharp.pixelplumbing.com/), not SharpJS (iridiumion.github.io/SharpJS/)
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Something went wrong installing the "sharp" module
Module did not self-register.
I spent so many hours on this.
You may need to change
0.24
in the package json to0.23.4
, and thenAnd ensure you do the electron-rebuild setup. That might fix it.
I think once we build binaries things will be easier