TextMug (2014)

TextMug is a paste-bin for Markdown. On this project I learned how to work with Content Editable and how to parse Markdown.

You can try it out here: https://textmug.com.

TextMug’s editor displays rendered Markdown. However, when you start editing a paragraph, it becomes source. This reduces the amount of context switching (and screen space) needed when editing and previewing Markdown.

This project is hosted on GitHub.

Lessons Learned

• Content Editable is finicky across browsers. Two examples:
  • Key presses don’t trigger events on Android’s browser (as of 2014)
  • Browsers use different elements as their “empty” element
• How to deploy an app on Digital Ocean

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