Out of interest are there any plans to support embedding Mermaid diagrams in the same way as Github supports?
adrianthedev 37 days ago [-]
Let's open an issue and discuss it there.
I never used diagrams and that library, but if I see a couple of other implementations, maybe it can be a drop-in...
sscarduzio 40 days ago [-]
This is exactly what I needed, but I need JS or Python backend. Any chance to make it work?
adrianthedev 40 days ago [-]
The JS side is made in StimulusJS. You can take it, it's MIT.
I haven't worked with python and don't have plans to port it to React or anything else.
If you do start work on it, I can guide you though the process if you need a hand...
adenta 37 days ago [-]
If I was to build out a react integration, would you recommend:
A. Rebuild the stimulus portions in react
B. Write a react wrapper around the stimulus
I use rails for everything I do, but like to use vite_rails on the front end for react. Excited to use this library!
adrianthedev 37 days ago [-]
Hmmm... My responsible developer gut tells me to redo it in React so you don't import StimulusJS just to render one editor.
It's like having jQuery as a dependency in a React project.
adenta 37 days ago [-]
Another question:
Does this integrate with action_text? Wasn’t that a big thing in rails 6/7, with like… trix?
adrianthedev 37 days ago [-]
In theory it does. The thing with ActionText is that it adds some HTML to the content, but in theory it should work.
briandear 37 days ago [-]
Do normal people use Markdown? Or is it a dev/“techie” thing?
Bluestrike2 37 days ago [-]
It's common enough that a bigger percentage of normal people than you'd think probably find themselves using it on sites at least occasionally (Reddit, etc.), even if they don't consciously think of it as Markdown or know all the particulars of the syntax.
The GitHub-style editors are nice in that when a user sees the syntax directly when they press a formatting button in the markdown-toolbar-element, it makes associating a hash symbol with a headline or two asterisks surrounding a word with bold text pretty straightforward. In that sense, they teach you through using it since the syntax is fairly simple for the basics for someone seeing it the first time. Use it a couple of times, and you'll skip touching the buttons--at least for the basics.
That said, I think a Writebook-style editor[0] mentioned elsewhere may have some advantages for people with less computer experience, but I don't think a straight GitHub-style one like this is bad in those circumstances. It's quite good, especially if you pair it with some instructions (whether they be in a modal or whatever have you).
I've had good success teaching markdown to a fair few non-techie people. At the end of the day it better serves as a machine-readable middleground between a user-facing WYSIWYG (markdown-powered) editor and the server responding to it.
timsco 37 days ago [-]
Thank you so much for this.
Merovex 34 days ago [-]
DHH has said that Markdown editing will be a feature in 8.1. Also, Marksmith requires the use of ViewComponent, which is non-standard.
sagasu007 38 days ago [-]
look good ~
downrightmike 37 days ago [-]
We are in 2025, can we please start using dark mode as the default on websites?
sevg 37 days ago [-]
Why do you assume everyone prefers dark mode? :)
It’s hard to know how popular dark vs light is among people who work in tech, but in my anecdotal data the majority of people/coworkers I’ve seen use GitHub have it in light mode.
There may be an argument to default to “system”.
andrewmutz 37 days ago [-]
Any stats on how many people use dark mode in the OS vs light mode? My sense was that dark mode was less popular.
I read that 37signals will also spin-off the markdown editor they built for Writebook (https://once.com/writebook), so nice to have different options.
nice to see that they are starting to push the whole ecosystem.
https://writewithharper.com
Out of interest are there any plans to support embedding Mermaid diagrams in the same way as Github supports?
A. Rebuild the stimulus portions in react B. Write a react wrapper around the stimulus
I use rails for everything I do, but like to use vite_rails on the front end for react. Excited to use this library!
Does this integrate with action_text? Wasn’t that a big thing in rails 6/7, with like… trix?
The GitHub-style editors are nice in that when a user sees the syntax directly when they press a formatting button in the markdown-toolbar-element, it makes associating a hash symbol with a headline or two asterisks surrounding a word with bold text pretty straightforward. In that sense, they teach you through using it since the syntax is fairly simple for the basics for someone seeing it the first time. Use it a couple of times, and you'll skip touching the buttons--at least for the basics.
That said, I think a Writebook-style editor[0] mentioned elsewhere may have some advantages for people with less computer experience, but I don't think a straight GitHub-style one like this is bad in those circumstances. It's quite good, especially if you pair it with some instructions (whether they be in a modal or whatever have you).
0. https://once.com/writebook
It’s hard to know how popular dark vs light is among people who work in tech, but in my anecdotal data the majority of people/coworkers I’ve seen use GitHub have it in light mode.
There may be an argument to default to “system”.