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Show HN: Monod, our secure Markdown editor built with React

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That's nice, but why is it better than https://stackedit.io/editor or http://dillinger.io/? is it open-source?

I wish I had a better Markdown editor for http://templates.alhur.es/ -- although a React dependency wouldn't be good for the page size.

We needed a way to support templates, because we really write any kind of documents in Markdown. AFAIK StackEdit does not support templates like we implemented. I did not know Dillinger, which seems to be close to StackEdit.

So if I had to quickly benchmark, I'd say: Monod has this notion of templates, speaks CommonMark (no hackish markdown), and is offline-first. Yet, the main reason we wrote it was to learn React.js.

We are working on open sourcing it this week!

How hard would it be to export a flat HTML version of the rendered document? Extract the DOM somehow, discard the react-specifics, ...? Or would it be easier to push the Markdown into a dedicated renderer?

EDIT: thanks at fiatjaf for mentioning alternatives, Dillinger has HTML export already.

mmh, it would be relatively easy but why would you do that? I'd be glad to know your use case.

Write HTML files to share online. If you use Markdown, you always need a conversion somewhere, PDFs are big and slow, ... HTML file I can do basic formatting, throw some default CSS on it and it looks and feels good on basically any device, can be e-mailed, ...

Makes perfectly sense, thanks!

That's basically server side rendering;

ReactDOMServer.renderToStaticMarkup would do it? I on't know if it affects a real DOM though; it might have weird side effects on the app.

Unfortunately, it's not open-sourced (yet?): https://github.com/tailordev

It will be open source this week. I am currently working on it, so stay tuned :)

Okay, but why the downvote?

What do you mean? I did not downvote anything. That was a good (and expected) question/comment.

Thanks! Sorry, but almost at the same time you replied somebody downvoted me. I apologize!

The Github page says William Durand is part of the company.

A nice surprise and some fond memories: he has been the mantainer of Propel ORM for several years.

I miss Propel and I feel thankful for it. Propel had is own problems, but it was the fastest and sanest way to develop the db layer I've ever used.

I wish you good luck with your new venture, William!

hehe thank you!

It is open source now! https://github.com/TailorDev/monod

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