Jade

Jade is a performant and simple plain text editor which runs and saves it's state on Deta Space.

Jade is a fork of Gem, originally hand-crafted by Tanishq Kancharla. It's built on top of prosemirror.

The goods:

• Fairly lightweight.
• Undo/redo.
• Arrow key movement.
• Basic inline markdown (bold, code, italic), although they can be a little buggy.
• JS source is small and readable.
• CSS source is small and readable. Uses CSS variables for styling.
• Accessible and semantic. Each paragraph becomes a p tag, each inline style is appropriately represented.
• Playful animated cursor :)

To run: npm run dev. The build step uses estrella to bundle and serve for serving.

Make sure to follow the original author on Twitter, he posts some cool stuff.

Contributions are welcome! Here's Tanishq's original wishlist:

• Switch to using codemirror so that syntax highlighting becomes easier to dispatch
• Basic markdown syntax highlighting.
  • Headings
  • Bullet lists
  • Numbered lists
  • Code block
• Code block syntax highlighting (async loading through prismjs?)
• Cursor shape changes when marks are applied (fatter when bold, slant when italic, rectangle when code)
• Default word-selection (when you start highlighting, it defaults to selecting the whole word your cursor is on).
• Fix sentence-wrapping bug where it overflows sometimes (unreproducible as of yet, unless you paste in a huge text).
• Highlight and animate selection through 3 divs: one on bottom to beginning of line, one sandwiched in b/w, and one from top to end of line
• "Bookmarks" to leave your cursor in a position and travel back to.
• Table of contents generated from the headings for easy navigation?
• Tree-sitter for incremental markdown parsing? Prosemirror plugin to wrap the wasm bundle?
• Allow theming/setting the color variables in UI?
• Potentially replace prosemirror-view to be more lightweight and integrate cursor and selection "natively"?
• Share urls to save?