I created an online markdown viewer and editor 📝

Publish Date: Jun 30 '19

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Marcdown 👻

Lightweight markdown viewer and editor

For one of my blog post, I was searching for an online markdown viewer and editor. There were many heavy-duty editors, with tones of useless features, but none seems to be easy and fast with all essential features.

That's why I created an online markdown viewer and editor tool: Marcdown to create, edit, view, and save markdown files on the go with ease. Marcdown is WYSIWYG!

WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. In computing, a WYSIWYG editor is a system in which content can be edited in a form closely resembling its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation.

Forget all the hassle of working with complicated editors. Learn how to create, edit, view, and save markdown files within minutes!

Marcdown is an open-source markdown viewer and editor optimized for change and adaptability to fit your exact needs.

With Marcdown, now I can view and edit markdown files in all sizes for free; I can view, edit, create markdown files and download them from anywhere.

Viewing and editing markdown files is now as simple as 1, 2, 3!

Paste or type markdown on left.
View preview on right.
Download markdown file.

Bonus: 🌗 I also added an option switch to dark mode so that reading markdown files at night won't hurt your eyes!

Demo 🚀

Feel free to contribute on GitHub

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Liyas Thomas ・ May 24 '20

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EDIT 0: Added highlightjs support: Inline codes and code blocks will now be highlighted automatically.
EDIT 1: Added separator line between editor and preview 🎉 Marcdown is a PWA. It works offline after first use. You can install it as a Web app on your phone or Desktop app on your PC. Click on the top-right PWA button to install as an offline app. Share your suggestions below & I'll implement them.

Comments 30 total

Sm0keJun 30, 2019

This is gold!
- Liyas ThomasJun 30, 2019
  
  Glad you liked it. Check out my other projects on GitHub.
Leo.pngJun 30, 2019

It's awesome !
- Liyas ThomasJun 30, 2019
  
  Glad you liked it. Check out my other projects on GitHub.
Sarthak SharmaJun 30, 2019

Damn Clean !! ❤️
- Liyas ThomasJun 30, 2019
  
  Glad you liked it. Check out my other projects on GitHub.
RaheemJun 30, 2019

You beat me to it. Its been on my side-project bucket list for a while, because discord was a hassle. It's probably for the best though, it looks great and much better than what I would have made!
- Liyas ThomasJun 30, 2019
  
  💚 Glad you liked it. Check out my other projects on GitHub.
  
  By the way, you should proceed with your bucket list. I'll definitely check it out. There's always something to learn from everyone :)
Stephanie HandsteinerJun 30, 2019

Literally beat me to market. I've been working on something like this in my spare time the past week as well.

Looks good, keep it up! 🙂
- Liyas ThomasJun 30, 2019
  
  💚 Glad you liked it. I've just added code highlight feature. Inline codes and code blocks will now be automatically highlighted. Check out my other projects on GitHub.
  
  You should proceed with your work. Every contribution helps :)
Kevin LiJun 30, 2019
Hey, just a suggestion. I haven't use the editor yet but based on the demo images, I think you can try combine the editor and preview into one. That will make UX much more enjoyable and the UI cleaner and more efficient. Check out typora to see what I mean.
- Liyas ThomasJul 1, 2019
  
  Yea, I got the idea. It would be cool. I'm on it 👌
  - AbdulazizJul 2, 2020
    it's july 2020 and I do not see this feature implemented. I would love to see it soon. It will be a big advantage, especially I do not think there is any markdown web app has it yet. Great work!
    - Liyas ThomasJul 3, 2020
      The current markdown parser library I use is incapable of unified editor+viewer. That's why I'd to keep it as it is.
Dario RomeroJun 30, 2019

Great tool, but how do you insert equations? Like $\alpha^2$
- Liyas ThomasJul 1, 2019
  
  Support for LaTeX equations & mathematical formulas is in development. Wait for it 👽
- Liyas ThomasJul 2, 2019
  
  ✨ Added MathJax support for LaTeX, MathML, and AsciiMath notations. Hooray..! 🎉
Daniel Ramirez MendozaJun 30, 2019

It's awesome!!!, one question, Can I use different themes?, I want to use that dracula theme you use on first demo image.
- Liyas ThomasJul 1, 2019
  
  More theming and customizations are on the way ✨
  
  Dark mode seen in the demo can be activated from Dark mode toggle icon 🌙 on the top-right of the screen.
protiumJul 1, 2019

I whish dev.to uses this for the posts editor. It's so clean and nice. I would add a line to visualy separate markdown from preview.

Have you considered making a lib of this allowing devs to choose colors and buttons to show?

Awesome work
- Liyas ThomasJul 1, 2019
  
  I too had the idea of separator line, I'm on it. Consider it's done.
  More theming and customizations are on the way 🎉
  
  Meanwhile, I made Marcdown as a progressive web app. It works offline after first use. You can install it as a Web app on your phone or Desktop app on your PC. Click on the top-right PWA button to install as an offline app.
Anand KumarJul 1, 2019

Super cool.
In my opinion, if the editor can be split vertically on mobile device would be good. Just my random thought.
- Liyas ThomasJul 1, 2019
  
  Wow. That's cool bro 👍 Will be added in next commit.
  - Anand KumarJul 1, 2019
    
    Thanks.
Fernando B 🚀Jul 1, 2019

Looks clean! I use stackedit online, but this looks awesome! Btw the pwa icon is barely visible.
- Liyas ThomasJul 1, 2019
  
  Glad you liked it. Check out my other projects at GitHub
  
  🎉 will fix PWA button
Arjun VikramJul 1, 2019

Beautiful! I love it!

Please add MathJax support! This would be great for people who need to include math equations in markdown.

I also fully support Kevin Li's suggestion to combine editor and preview. Check out Typora (typora.io) for an example of how this is done. I'm basically looking for an open source version of Typora at this point.

Again, looks great!
- Liyas ThomasJul 1, 2019
  
  Both features are on the way 🔥 Follow project on GitHub for updates
- Liyas ThomasJul 2, 2019
  
  ✨ Added MathJax support for LaTeX, MathML, and AsciiMath notations. Hooray..! 🎉
Liyas ThomasJul 2, 2019

Thanks for the support 🧡

What's new on Marcdown?

✨ Added MathJax support for LaTeX, MathML, and AsciiMath notations. Hooray..! 🎉

GitHub Link

Feel free to contribute on GitHub

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