SimpleMDE vs ink-mde

SimpleMDE

A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking. (by sparksuite)

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ink-mde

A beautiful, modern, customizable Markdown editor powered by CodeMirror 6 and TypeScript (by davidmyersdev)

Extensible JavaScript Markdown Editor TypeScript Customizable Vim Codemirror mde Plugins HacktoberFest Vue

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SimpleMDE		ink-mde
	Project
12	Mentions	5
9,677	Stars	178
0.9%	Growth	9.0%
0.0	Activity	7.2
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

SimpleMDE

Posts with mentions or reviews of SimpleMDE. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-13.

Portfolio | The junior tester guide
2 projects | dev.to | 13 Jan 2023
WYSIWYG Markdown editor?
3 projects | /r/laravel | 7 Jan 2023

can be a little fiddly depending on your needs, but this is what we use https://simplemde.com/
Laravel Markdown Blog: Publish blog posts with content in Markdown format
5 projects | dev.to | 10 Aug 2022
SimpleMDE VS ink - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 7 May 2022
New major release for Biff (web framework)
1 project | /r/Clojure | 5 Apr 2022

You can also use drop-in JS components. I have a home-grown CMS that includes SimpleMDE (https://simplemde.com/), a markdown editor. SimpleMDE syncs its contents to the DOM, so from HTMX's perspective, it's just another text field and can be submitted along with a regular form POST.
The Complete Guide to Full Stack Web3 Development
9 projects | dev.to | 10 Feb 2022

hardhat - Ethereum development environment web3modal - An easy-to-use library that allows users to connect their wallets to your app react-markdown and simplemde - Markdown editor and markdown renderer for the CMS @emotion/css - A great CSS in JS library @openzeppelin/contracts - Open source implementations of useful smart contract standards and functionality
Access and update local files, from your browser!
1 project | dev.to | 27 Dec 2021

Check out this Markdown editor, made using SimpleMDE.
Add A Comment System To A Jekyll Blog Using Staticman - 2 / 2
1 project | dev.to | 16 Oct 2021

To do so, we will use a javascript markdown editor called SimpleMDE. This is quite an elegant solution as this library will target our textarea and replace them, which mean that our solution will still work if one of our users has javascript disabled on its browser (who does that?).
Create an Odoo 14 Markdown Widget Field with TDD - Part 2
4 projects | dev.to | 11 May 2021
Create an Odoo 14 Markdown Widget Field with TDD - Part 1
2 projects | dev.to | 5 May 2021

There is a lot of awesome JavaScript markdown editors but I settled for simpleMDE as a very easy embeddable Markdown Editor.

ink-mde

Posts with mentions or reviews of ink-mde. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-07.

TOAST UI Editor VS ink - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 7 May 2022
SimpleMDE VS ink - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 7 May 2022
easy-markdown-editor VS ink - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 7 May 2022
Do you prefer WYSIWG markdown editors or styled markdown editors?
1 project | /r/Markdown | 24 Sep 2021

I actually went with a hybrid approach for a project of mine. https://github.com/writewithocto/ink
Ink - A configurable, embeddable, extensible Markdown editor written in TypeScript
1 project | /r/typescript | 21 Aug 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SimpleMDE and ink-mde you can also consider the following projects:

TOAST UI Editor - 🍞📝 Markdown WYSIWYG Editor. GFM Standard + Chart & UML Extensible.

react-md-editor - A simple markdown editor with preview, implemented with React.js and TypeScript.

TinyMCE - The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular

BoostNote-App - Boost Note is a document driven project management tool that maximizes remote DevOps team velocity.

quill - Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility.

rich-markdown-editor - The open source React and Prosemirror based markdown editor that powers Outline. Want to try it out? Create an account:

Trumbowyg - A lightweight and amazing WYSIWYG JavaScript editor under 10kB

tinacms - A fully open-source headless CMS that supports Markdown and Visual Editing

EpicEditor - EpicEditor is an embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor with split fullscreen editing, live previewing, automatic draft saving, offline support, and more. For developers, it offers a robust API, can be easily themed, and allows you to swap out the bundled Markdown parser with anything you throw at it.

tablemark - Generate markdown tables from JSON data.

Draft.js - A React framework for building text editors.

ngx-codemirror - Codemirror Wrapper for Angular