StackEdit.io is an open-source and web-based Markdown editor.
I was able to edit Markdown files with a WYSIWYG + live Preview and commit quite easily to a Gitlab repo.
New files can be created from StackEdit from a customizable template.
Major drawbacks:
- I found no easy way to upload an image from Stackedit
- the maintainer gave no sign of online presence since april 2021. A StackEdit “Pro” appeared online, closed-source and paid, promised nice additional features. I didn’t test it and the main website is down now .
Here are my notes about the Setup in Gitlab (Github support is broken and requires the use of a tricky workaround):
Create a new App in Gitlab → Profile → Applications: https://gitlab.com/-/profile/applications
Here is the “scope” of a functionnal setup:
Callback URL https://stackedit.io/oauth2/callback Confidential No Scopes api (Access the authenticated user's API) read_user (Read the authenticated user's personal information) read_api (Read Api) read_repository (Allows read-only access to the repository) write_repository (Allows read-write access to the repository) openid (Authenticate using OpenID Connect) profile (Allows read-only access to the user's personal information using OpenID Connect)In StackEdit, select “Manage Workspaces” to see and edit a whole Folder and his content
This is a project I would love to see revived!
Two things I’m thinking about (but will probably have no time to make real):
- Get in touch with the dev of StackEdit Pro and ask him to release the source-code of his improvements in case he wants to give up this project.
- Convince the lovely folks at Netlify to invest a part of their fund dedicated to the Jamstack in StackEdit