Markdown AST, Improve UX and refactor ?

First of all, thank 圆伞科技 for sponsoring HyperMD! I have some plan to make HyperMD much better:

Markdown AST

• Parse content and get AST (via CodeMirror Mode? or other libs like marked ?)
• AST APIs for HyperMD users
  • Read
  • Write
• Use AST to improve hide-token, shortkeys’ performance and user experience, also for #43

Separated Packges

• Separate PowerPacks into NPM Packages.
• A toolchain (or project boilerplate), for the separated npm packages.

Style / Theme

• By default, hide line numbers, or make them less eye-catching
  • Move [Go back] button of addon/click to somewhere else.
• Rewrite the theme .scss, make it more configurable (eg. dark mode?)
  • Add more color schemes.
  • Add themes for wide screens ( eg. #28 )
• Find a better way to deal with external resources. (web fonts and icon images)
• Remove all require("xxx.css") from source, so that we can make HyperMD less opinioned?

Marketing

• Better doc and README
• SEO? some articles? no idea yet.

UX Improving

• hide-token shall
  • NOT hide tokens that are inside a selection.
  • NOT hide link address while editing an image/link.

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However, for now, I’m too busy to maintain HyperMD. The plan also need further discussion. Feel free to leave comments. I think this can start in late October.

[laobubu]

@CoreParadox

Has this made any progress? I love this project, but theming it is a nightmare currently (Unless you have some tips, the 800+ lines of css is quite demotivating)

Check this out: dark theme and light theme. Maybe this is the best trade-off between readable code and HyperMD’s mess.

HyperMD uses lots of tricky methods to make CodeMirror WYSIWYG, which make is almost impossible to write clean css for themes.

Maybe getting rid of CodeMirror is the only solution. Meanwhile, a brand new CodeMirror is coming, and it will make almost all HyperMD tricks broken. That makes me feel demotivating.

[michaelgmcd]

How about plugins? This is the term used by tools like Draft.js and Eslint. Either way, I think it’s a great idea and the name shouldn’t have too much effect.