Codex is an in-development (status: alpha) WYSIWYG editor for the developer community.
The purpose of Codex is to make note-taking, publishing to the web, and new forms of self-expression accessible to the developer community.
The current alpha is hosted on Netlify at codex-wysiwyg.netlify.app.
Feedback about all aspects of Codex are welcome. You’re welcome to:
- Author on the web in a well-behaved WYSIWYG editor. ✍️
All modern desktop browsers will be supported, including iOS. - Use markdown syntax as shortcuts for WYSIWYG formatting. 🧠⚡️
For example,**bold**→<strong>bold</strong>. - Author inline code and code blocks with dynamic syntax highlighting. 🌈
You, dear developer, are a respected member of society. - Cut, copy, and paste as markdown. ✂️
Never lose the semantic meaning of your documents. This also means your documents will be interoperable with Notion! - Render to GitHub Flavored Markdown and semantic HTML in realtime. 👩💻👨💻
Bootstrap your next project by using Codex to generate your content. - Customize the editor’s aesthetic to your needs. 🧐
Light mode, dark mode, and support for colorful themes. - Auto-generate table-of-contents. 🔗
Codex generates document-unique links for every header element and generates a table-of-contents for you, for every document. - Forget markdown syntax?! 🤪
Is he serious?? - More! ✨
The Codex editor is currently: alpha status. ⏳
Missing MVP features:
- Support for pending formatting ranges (e.g. formatting without a selection)
- Support for multiline elements;
<blockquote>,<ul>, etc. - Support for media elements;
<img>, etc. - Support for markdown-to-WYSIWYG transformations
- Support for clipboard operations (cut, copy, paste)
- Support for history operations (undo, redo)
Planned (future) features:
- Support for more inline elements
- Support for custom search
- Support for custom cursors
- Support for collaborative editing
Codex WYSIWYG is open source software licensed as MIT.
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