Ben Halpern
Posted on October 9, 2018
Hey folks! We have a new editor you can start using! We have no plans on removing the old editor as an option, but you can start playing with a new one now!
The new editor is a bit easier to use. It maintains our wonderful markdown + liquid tag style of writing posts, but removes the "frontmatter" part, which was confusing (and inherently buggy in frustrating ways!)
V2 is still in unfinished beta mode, but it's good to go and should work wonderfully for most use cases! To switch to the new editor, go to https://dev.to/settings/misc and switch to "v2".
Thank you to Derek Hopper for pitching in big-time to help launch this feature. The work can be reflected in this PR.
If you are interested in making any code quality improvements, feel free to take a look at the code here.
If you are interested in pitching in on the ongoing development effort of this feature in any way, let me know in the comments and I'll be in touch. It's principally built in Preact.
If you would like to start playing around with one stretch feature that I think would be really cool, take a look at this issue:
Typeahead liquid tag dropdown in new editor
#872
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As a user, it can be hard to remember what exactly the commands for liquid tags in the editor are. In the way I might use this feature in my code, I'd like to type {% and get a list of options for autocomplete.
Additional context The editor is built in Preact, and ideally this could be done without new dependencies, but if we need to use preact-compat, we could.
I believe the editor will need to be written as a content-editable div, and we'd listen for the typing etc.
Ultimately it should work similarly to how I use typeahead in VSCode etc.
This is what it might look like:
Happy coding!
Posted on October 9, 2018
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