Edward

Web editor used in Cloud Commander based on Ace.

Features

• Syntax highlighting based on extension of file for over 110 languages.
• Built-in emmet (for html files)
• Drag n drop (drag file from desktop to editor).
• Built-in jshint (with options in .jshintrc file, could be overriden by ~/.jshintrc)
• Built-in beautifier (with options in json/beautify.json, could be overriden by ~/.beautify.json)
• Configurable options (json/edit.json could be overriden by ~/.edward.json)

Install

npm i edward -g

Command line parameters

Usage: edward [filename]

Parameter	Operation
-h, --help	display help and exit
-v, --version	output version information and exit

Hot keys

Key	Operation
Ctrl + s	save
Ctrl + f	find
Ctrl + h	replace
Ctrl + g	go to line
Ctrl + b	beautify js, css or html
Ctrl + m	minify js, css or html
Ctrl + e	evaluate (JavaScript only supported)

For more details see Ace keyboard shortcuts.

API

Edward could be used as middleware for express. For this purpuse API could be used.

Server

edward(options)

Middleware of edward. Options could be omitted.

const edward = require('edward');
const express = require('express');
const app = express();

app.use(edward({
    minify  : true,  /* default */
    online  : true,  /* default */
    diff    : true,  /* default */
    zip     : true,  /* default */
    authCheck: function(socket, success) { /* optional */
    }
}));

app.listen(31337);

edward.listen(socket)

Could be used with socket.io to handle editor events with.

const io = require('socket.io'),
const socket = io.listen(server);

edward.listen(socket);

Client

Edward uses ace on client side, so API is similar. All you need is put minimal html, css, and js into your page.

Minimal html:

<div class="edit" data-name="js-edit"></div>
<script src="/edward/edward.js"></script>

Minimal css:

html, body, .edit {
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
}

Minimal js:

edward('[data-name="js-edit"]', function(editor) {
    editor.setValue('Hello edward!');
});

For more information you could always look around into assets and bin directory.

Environments

In old node.js environments that supports es5 only, dword could be used with:

var edward = require('dword/legacy');

Related

• Dword - web editor based on Codemirror.
• Deepword - web editor based on Monaco.

License

MIT