On: Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor

[beerglass]

Thanks for your suggestion. I use plain textarea so that Undo, Spellcheck work seamlessly. Monaco at 5MB+ is bigger than the whole app. Will instead try highlight.js for transparent overlay.

[eleventen → beerglass]

I also just discovered OverType.dev which is a library for exactly this purpose. I might jettison my editor and just use OverType!

[nickthegreek → beerglass]

How does one 'install' into chrome so that double clicking the MD files open in browser?

[eleventen → nickthegreek]

This is the magic of Progressive Web Apps. PWAs support the File Handler api to register themselves as the handler for certain file types.