Markdownald

A fully-fledged Markdown desktop application that supports Github Flavored Markdown. Created using Node-Webkit.

current release: v0.0.2 hamburger

Deprecation notice:

This project is not maintained anymore. It was fun to make it at the time being, but there's good support for markdown edition in major editors like vscode now.

Installation

prebuilt binaries

you can download prebuilt binaries for latest release here

from source

First you will need to install node-webkit for your platform see node-webkit repository for details. If not already install install nodejs too.

then clone this repository:

$ git clone git@github.com:malko/markdownald.git

go to the application directory, install the dependencies and launch node-webkit:

$ cd markdownald
$ npm install
$ nw ./

or under linux if nw is in your path you can launch directly

$ ./markdownald/markdownald.sh

Todo

• [-] add editor bindings for common style opération (bold, underline, add link, images...)
  • lists, bloquotes, titles
  • images, links
• add recent list file management to the file menu
• [-] better css for markdown rendering
  • [-] add some styles
• export generated output to pdf
• integrate with github api to read and save directly from github

Built thanks to others open source projects

• node-webkit as the foundation of the application
• stylus to ease css creation
• marked for the preview of the markdown generated
• highlightjs for highlighting source code in preview
• CodeMirror for the editor part