Markdown Explorer

Easily explore, view and edit markdown documentation of a file tree.

Common use case

If your projects documentation is written in Markdown, with md files dispersed throughout your project tree, Markdown Explorer displays md files in a tree structure, and it allows filtering by file name or by file content.

Quick start

Just drop a folder on the window (or click on the folder icon on top left) to show the Markdown documentation of this folder. Then, explore the tree on the left, and toggle view/edit mode on md file with the button on the top right.

Features

• md file Tree
  • Show only md file in a file tree
  • Filter
    • Filter file tree by file content
    • Filter file tree by file name
    • Filter file tree by file path
    • Highlight occurrences
  • Ignore some folder names
  • Tree and file content cache to speed up search/tree display
  • Remove number and underscore from file/folder names in tree view
• md files
  • View md file
  • Add generated table of content automatically at begin of render view
  • Edit md file
  • Automatic save
  • Quick md syntax help
• Navigate:
  • previous/next opened md with scroll position
  • relative reference md links
• Remember last opened tree/file
• Pass configuration from command line: set tree/md path to show, and folders to ignore in tree

Screenshots

Md tree and view mode :

Edit mode :

How To Use

$ git clone https://github.com/jersou/markdown-explorer
$ cd markdown-explorer
$ npm install
$ npm start

or download the app

Documentation

The app documentation is available inside the doc folder

Stack

• Electron : to build the cross platform desktop app
• SimpleMDE : to edit md files
• ShowdownJS : to render md files
• showdown-toc : to generate table of content
• Github Markdown CSS : to replicate the GitHub Markdown style
• and more : Development/Dependencies.md.

Note

This app is my first Electron app (except very small tests), then it's probably not a good example ;-), it's a quick dev to learn Electron and it would be necessary to refactor the code in the (near) future (but it's functional :-) ).

Contributor

Jeremy Soulary

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2018 Jeremy Soulary http://www.soulary.com/

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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