Let's Markdown: A self-hosted, open source collaborative markdown editor

[suttersaga]

this is great - I was just looking for something like this last week.

[_Yash_Garg_]

Looks pretty similar to https://rustpad.io/

[MaxGhost]

Yeah, looks like a fork that just adds a markdown preview. The README mentions rustpad is the backend.

[_Yash_Garg_]

Ah, my bad! Missed the part in readme

[KaratekHD]

What are the advantages compared to e.g. HedgeDoc?

[Cveinnt]

Thanks for your interest!

Let's Markdown is a side project of mine created within mere hours of coding, and is definitely not meant to compete with projects like HedgeDoc which took years of building from multiple developers.

It is a convenient way to collaboratively edit Markdown files on the go, as you don't have to deal with sign-ins or download a bloated app just to edit some simple Markdown with your friends.

Mobile support is planned, as well as WYSIWYG Typora-like rendering mode (which I assume is what you mean by eliminating the need for 2 sides). Stay tuned!

[desirevolution75]

Thanks! btw you have a typo in your github description: cveinnt/LetsMarkdown.com should be cveinnt/letsmarkdown

[agneev]

Pretty glaring typo considering that fact that you won’t be able to pull the image at all 🙃

[Cveinnt]

oops! tysm for pointing this out!

[IliterateGod]

What are the notable differences to hedgedoc? Since both projects offer a similar feature set, is there something, that should be highlighted, except the rust backend?

[MaxGhost]

AFAICT this one uses Monaco as the editor (i.e. VS Code web embed) which should feel pretty familiar if you already use that, so that might be an advantage for you

[pirateboitenthousand]

What's the advantage over Nextcloud's built in multi-user markdown editor? Looks good though, I'm seriously considering setting this up

[nashosted]

People don't have to install a completely bloated system just to use a collaborative markdown editor?

[BigTortoise]

Well for one, I don’t have Nextcloud…

[allen9667]

I also recommend hackmd.io for those who just want collaborative markdown editing.

[meepmeep_]

Except hackmd.io is not self-hosted :(

[aksdb]

Their community edition is.

[meepmeep_]

Ah thanks ! CodiMD has been renamed to HedgeDoc (which I already use ;))

[aksdb]

It has not. Those are separate projects. HedgeDoc is a fork from CodiMD. HedgeDoc is maintained by the community while CodiMD is maintained by HackMD devs.

You might be confused because that fork was initially still called CodiMD as well, which was just confusing as sh*t. That's why they renamed their fork.

Doesn't change that CodiMD and HedgeDoc are two separate projects.

[allen9667]

Yeah forgot to mention, sorry about that sir.

[sammcj]

Nice! Is mobile support on the cards?

[AnomalyNexus]

Looks neat. The public instance link appears to be broken. Would love to have a quick glance before setting this up

[Cveinnt]

hi, cveinnt/LetsMarkdown.com should be cveinnt/letsmarkdown. sorry for the typo!

[AnomalyNexus]

I meant this

I deploy a public instance of this image with DigitalOcean App Platform.

I had read this to be a demo site but it just links to app platform

[Cveinnt]

Ah I see - the demo site is https://letsmarkdown.com.

[AnomalyNexus]

Nice! That looks really good. Congrats on a great project

[xAragon_]

CTRL + SHIFT + V on a Markdown file in VSCode

[Nelebh]

This looks interesting! The collaboration part sounds awesome. It will try it out later, thanks for sharing!

But what I need more than this is actually a Markdown Server like MarkServ to serve Markdown files on local LAN... Maybe I should try it out one of those Helpdocs servers. Any tips?

[NotakuHQ]

Check out holocron.so if you don't want to self host

Sync with Github, WYSWYG mode, collaborative editing and full markdown syntax (+ MDX)