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Show HN: MarkRight – Electron-powered GitHub-flavored Markdown editor

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This is awesome—I use Mou right now, but going to try switching to this for a while.

This really highlights the need to create some sort of shared library from Electron's core, though. I've probably got a half dozen copies of Chromium bundled into various apps now!

Glad to hear. I killed most bugs before posting it here but if you notice something odd while using it, please submit a issue on github right away.

You could probably symlink `Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework` (on mac) to something like ~/.electron to get rid of the duplicated core (and around 100mb per app). Though I didn't try that yet.

This is great, thanks for sharing! It's funny, I was just thinking about trying to use Electron for a markdown editor project.

I work in an academic environment and fantasize about luring writers and editors away from MS Word into Markdown. Unfortunately it looks like the Marked library (the most popular JS parser) doesn't support extensions like footnotes, which are critical for my use-case.

My ultimate dream would be to have an Electron-based markdown editor that supports inline "tracked changes" through something like git.js[1], sort of like a desktop version of prose.io.

Care to share any thoughts about the experience of working in the Electron platform?

[1]: https://github.com/danlucraft/git.js

Wow that's somewhat scary to hear so many people in academia are using MS Word. Most papers I read are done in LaTeX and I just assumed the rest were done on OSX (with whatever they use).

Here's a good article I found a while back when I was looking into using Markdown for academic papers: http://blog.cigrainger.com/2014/07/pandoc-markdown.html

What does this offer over Atom and its built-in markdown preview plugin?

You are right, people that already use Atom probably have a solution inside the editor. I use a different set of tools and sometimes need something I can use to edit my markdown files with a as-close-as-possible github preview.

For those not familiar with Electron: http://electron.atom.io/

Just downloaded looks slick.

Make it so I can open multiple windows and I'll be glad to quit stackedit for you.

https://stackedit.io/

Note im a windows user

Wonderful! This works perfectly on my HiDPI Windows 10 laptop (as opposed to MarkdownPad, which requires an ugly hack).

How does it compare to MacDown and Mou?

I guess it depends what your priorities are.

Personally I find MacDown to be a great replacement for Mou, LightPaper may also be appealing to some people.

All of these are native apps, i don't see what this app could offer that would make up for being non native.

This is so nice, congrats. Is there any way to add styling on the preview?

Currently not but since the preview is just normal HTML, all we <technically> have to do is load a different css file. You could of course also change the shipped css file and build your own version.

This is what I've been looking for! Thank you!

Why not make it work on the browser?

There are a lot web based markdown previewers. You could even go to github and use the 'preview' feature when editing a README.

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