OverType
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markdown editor
SHOW HN2025
471points
99comments
#80of 3,837 in 2025
Top 3%of 2025 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
28 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 14 critical, out of 71 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.
Idea: 14 for, 8 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for embedding markdown editing in projects.
From 2 comments
This is exactly what I need for my project :)
rakag on HNVery cool. I’m gonna implement into my hobby project today and see how it goes.
nodesocket on HN
Objections
Calling it WYSIWYG is misleading since it shows markdown symbols and is only syntax highlighting.
From 4 comments
Calling it WYSIWYG is a misnomer: this is just syntax highlighting, it just so happens that the highlighting styles agree to an extent with the final rendering. And the idea is…
pwdisswordfishz on HNIf it were a WYSIWYG editor, there'd be previews for images. But it seems like it's just syntax highlighting for textareas. Nice project either way, but false advertising.
garbageoverflow on HNWYSIWYG does not refer to the icons in the toolbar, but rather the text itself. This is not WYSIWYG because when I make something bold, I see a bunch of asterisks around it.…
clippyplz on HNIndeed it is a misuse of the term. An actual WYSIWYG editor would not show any of the formatting markers. By definition a “Markdown editor” cannot be WYSIWYG - you can have a…
ricardobeat on HN
Requires monospace font, a drawback for non-technical audiences.
From 2 comments
Having to use a monospaced font is a pretty big drawback. To me, it means I wouldn't use this for a product that wasn't intended for a techie programmer audience. Not that it…
ikurei on HNNice! Seems very useful if you can drop in and have everything work. Nitpicking a bit: it's not as much _rendering_ markdown as it's _syntax highlighting_ it. Another interesting…
pedrovhb on HN
Alignment breaks in some mobile browsers with bold text widths.
From 2 comments
In Firefox on Android, the bold font is wider than the upright and italic fonts, breaking alignment. (It works fine in Chrome on the same Android phone. Android 16, Firefox…
tomsmeding on HNIn fact, depending on font-synthesis [1] and the exact choice of fonts (even when they are monospaced), the alignment can be easily off. That's why this approach only works to…
lifthrasiir on HN
Requests
Add list auto-continuation on Enter.
From 2 comments
Very cool! So simple, I love it. One thing that would be great is a bit better support for lists (todos, unordered and ordered) where when you press enter once it will add…
mosselman on HNI really like the simplicity of this. I have a couple projects I could see this being really useful in, at least as an option instead of pure plain text. I still feel like…
breakfastduck on HN
Wrap as a web component.
From 3 comments
Great project! I was looking into this area too for a while. Any reasons you didn't turn this into a web component? Seems like a no-brainer if I can basically use it like…
WA on HNHave you considered wrapping this in web component so it can be used without the div + constructor call ceremony?
TeddyDD on HN> Embedding was a nightmare - any inherited CSS from parent pages (margin, padding, line-height) would shift alignment. This seems to be the perfect use case for a web component…
splitbrain on HN
Support image previews.
From 2 comments
would absolutely love this for a personal note-taking project, but having image support and some sort of auto-completion for commands, lists, tags etc is crucial for something…
walterlw on HNIf it were a WYSIWYG editor, there'd be previews for images. But it seems like it's just syntax highlighting for textareas. Nice project either way, but false advertising.
garbageoverflow on HN
Syntax highlighting for code blocks.
From 1 comment
This is cool (and amazingly simple). Would be even cooler than it already is if it would syntax highlight code in code blocks, too.
drob518 on HN
Questions
How does it handle large documents?
From 1 comment
Can you send the GitHub link again? And how does this handle rendering larger documents?
nm980 on HN
How does it differ from marked on npm?
From 1 comment
Nice job. How is this different than marked on npm?
maz1b on HN
Does it support tables?
From 1 comment
what about tables?
grigio on HN
Alternatives named
Milkdown
From 1 comment
Nice, I was playing around with Milkdown. it's pretty cool: https://milkdown.dev/playground. It's like a block editor like notion for markdown so you don't need the split pane…
Jonovono on HN
CodeJar
From 1 comment
2kb https://medv.io/codejar/
zazaulola on HN
rich-textarea
From 1 comment
https://github.com/inokawa/rich-textarea
uonr on HN
Pell and spell
From 2 comments
912 bytes.... https://sylvainpolletvillard.github.io/spell/demo.html
phonon on HNThis is a really good project, kudos! What I am wondering is if I can modify the project enough so that lets say when I do # test, then it can automatically modify it to be…
Imustaskforhelp on HN