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remarkable
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Sciter, the 5 MB Electron alternative, has switched to JavaScript
> we can't take some well-tested, used-by-millions library
You can.
Here is an example of Sciter application that uses RemarkableJS library (https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable) as it is:
https://quark.sciter.com/quark-application-samples/hello-mar...
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BREAKING!! NPM package ‘ua-parser-js’ with more than 7M weekly download is compromised
Simultaneously the #1 trending developer on GitHub across all languages (out of ~17 million developers at the time) with multiple #1 trending projects: Remarkable (https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable), a markdown parser and compiler (also across all languages, out of ~7 million projects), Enquirer (https://github.com/enquirer/enquirer), a stylish, user-friendly prompt system.
Since then they've made things that are IMO quite useful, like enquirer, micromatch, and remarkable.
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Sciter officially switched to JavaScript
mdview (sources) uses RemarkableJS for MD->HTML conversion.
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Tauri: An Electron alternative written in Rust
will give you split-view out-of-the-box. But web dev's will start looking for frameworks in order to achieve this simple task that browser have internally already.
TL;DR: Web and desktop UIs use inherently different models. You can share parts between these two different platforms but only parts, really.
[1] Remarkable JS: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/remarkable
showdown
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How do I display a markdown table on a website with go backend?
So you're going to need a Markdown parser that produces HTML. But there's a question of where is the data coming from and where you you want to process it? If it's going to be all on the frontend like a text editor, use a JS library for it (a quick google search produces ShowdownJS)
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Docusaurus first impression and stealing like an open sourcer
Previously, I was required to implement the markdown support manually which meant that the use of public libraries was prohibited. My tool could only support limited styling elements such as header1, header2, links, bold and italics, but now I can finally let my tool have a full markdown support by using Showdown.
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I made a full-stack portfolio site using Next.js and Tailwind!
The first two ages are very heavy on content so I decided to use markdown and tailwind’s typography plugin for styling. I also used showdown to fetch the markdown and turn it into HTML. The code for the above can be found on the site’s GitHub repository.
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Markdown-Tag: Add Markdown to any HTML using a <md> tag
It looks like it uses showdown as the engine.
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A Colorful Textarea
Adding syntax highlighting to an input field can be a hard task. supports neither styling of individual characters or words, nor HTML tags within itself, there is no fully supported native solution for that. Most editors work with
contenteditable
to actually render a fully marked up code snippet and let the user edit its content. This requires a lot of work to get it accessible (as in restore all the native functions of a textarea) and still adds a lot of complexity.
If you don't want that and are just looking for a quick, dead-simple solution: Here's how to colorize a textarea.Solution
The trick is to separate the input element from the displayed one. We can't color the content of a textarea, but we can make it invisible and replace it with marked up content. This works with monospaced fonts and fonts with a uniform width across normal, bold and italic characters. I'm using this for code and markdown, so that's perfectly acceptable for me. We also need to be careful to match the dimensions of the textarea exactly while only using font-relative units like
em
, to ensure that the highlight element scales well with the invisible textarea. The cursor is still in the textarea's context, while the text itself is rendered in the highlight element. We want to match every character of the textarea to match the highlighted one on a pixel-perfect basis.I also need to auto-resize my textarea. Since textareas usually scroll vertically, that would mess up the position matching with the highlight element. Auto-resizing seems like a graceful workaround to me.
The highlghting itself would work with every code parser. I'm using highlight.js to convert markdown to syntax-highlighted HTML. I listen for content changes in the textarea and parse new rendered code on every input. To counter the worst performance hits, I'll just use
requestAnimationFrame
. Debouncing isn't an option here, because the user would only see what they've written after they've finished typing. That'd be very poor UX.Demo
Note that this example also displays the rendered Markdown in a separate element. I'll use the change listener that I already have to splice in a Markdown renderer: Showdown.
Pros
- as accessible as a textarea
- is a progressively enhanced feature
- can be styled exactly to your needs
- dead simple solution compared to a rich text editor
Cons
- has performance issues with large texts (as do textareas in general)
- works only with monospaced fonts
- works only with auto-sizing textareas
This article was written in a textarea :)
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Browser extension - Integrate your features securely
In order to transform the Markdown to HTLM, we can use a generator such as showdown. It's really easy to use:
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CSS style to make HTML look like raw markdown
or are you asking general technical question about markdown handling? there are existing solution which already do two-way convertion, including showdown and reddit comment box, the secret to make them "live" is to update both fields on key-down even
What are some alternatives?
Markdig - A fast, powerful, CommonMark compliant, extensible Markdown processor for .NET
js-xss - Sanitize untrusted HTML (to prevent XSS) with a configuration specified by a Whitelist
ua-parser-js - UAParser.js - Free & open-source JavaScript library to detect user's Browser, Engine, OS, CPU, and Device type/model. Runs either in browser (client-side) or node.js (server-side).
sciter-js-sdk - Sciter.JS - Sciter but with QuickJS on board instead of my TIScript
markdown-raw - CSS style to make HTML look like raw markdown
react-markdown - Markdown component for React [Moved to: https://github.com/remarkjs/react-markdown]
html-react-parser - 📝 HTML to React parser.
node-html-to-text - Advanced html to text converter
enquirer - Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts, for Node.js. Used by eslint, webpack, yarn, pm2, pnpm, RedwoodJS, FactorJS, salesforce, Cypress, Google Lighthouse, Generate, tencent cloudbase, lint-staged, gluegun, hygen, hardhat, AWS Amplify, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and many others! Please follow Enquirer's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert
Highlight.js - JavaScript syntax highlighter with language auto-detection and zero dependencies.
prettier - Prettier is an opinionated code formatter.
Servo - Servo, the embeddable, independent, memory-safe, modular, parallel web rendering engine