Tuesday, March 31, 2015; 11:38:02 AM Eastern
What's the best JavaScript editor?
- On March 23, I posted a short-term roadmap for "MyWord Editor", including this:
The editor is a plain pre-HTML5 <textarea>. There are lots of great projects underway to do beautiful full-featured text editing in JavaScript. I did a survey of them last week, and have reached out privately to some of the authors of these tools. I want to get great text editing in MWE. But first I wanted to get the open source release out there.
The editor is now released, people have successfully gotten their own servers running, and yesterday I released the first version of templating. I'd say the train is rolling.
- #### What's the best text editor?
- Now I'd like to swing back to the question of text editing.
- There are lots of editors to choose from. They all presumably have advantages and disadvantages. I'd like to host a discussion here. What would be the best editor to use?
- #### Discussion
- The two I looked at most closely were medium.js and Dante.
- The genre of editor that makes the most sense is one that's trying to mirror the Medium feature set. That's what both these editors aim to do.
- But there are other drop-in editors written in JavaScript. I wanted to cast a net as wide as possible to see what would come back.
- This is a decision lots of other people have had to make.
- For example, what does Ghost use? I assume WordPress wrote their own? Did they? Tumblr?
- They all had to make the same decision.
- #### Update 4/2/15
- I decided to put a very low-tech plug-in architecture in MWE.
- You can read about it here.
- In a word, the architecture is this: fork. ;-)