Sample BlogPost?

• Import a HTML file and watch it magically convert to Markdown
• Drag and drop images (requires your Dropbox account be linked)
• Import and save files from GitHub, Dropbox, Google Drive and One Drive
• Drag and drop markdown and HTML files into Dillinger
• Export documents as Markdown, HTML and PDF

Markdown is a lightweight markup language based on the formatting conventions that people naturally use in email. As [John Gruber] writes on the [Markdown site][df1]

The overriding design goal for Markdown's formatting syntax is to make it as readable as possible. The idea is that a Markdown-formatted document should be publishable as-is, as plain text, without looking like it's been marked up with tags or formatting instructions.

This text you see here is *actually- written in Markdown! To get a feel for Markdown's syntax, type some text into the left window and watch the results in the right.

Tech

Dillinger uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

• [AngularJS] - HTML enhanced for web apps!
• [Ace Editor] - awesome web-based text editor
• [markdown-it] - Markdown parser done right. Fast and easy to extend.
• [Twitter Bootstrap] - great UI boilerplate for modern web apps
• [node.js] - evented I/O for the backend
• [Express] - fast node.js network app framework [@tjholowaychuk]
• [Gulp] - the streaming build system
• Breakdance - HTML to Markdown converter
• [jQuery] - duh

And of course Dillinger itself is open source with a [public repository][dill] on GitHub.

Installation

Dillinger requires Node.js v10+ to run.

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server.

cd dillinger
npm i
node app

For production environments...

npm install --production
NODE_ENV=production node app

Plugins

Dillinger is currently extended with the following plugins. Instructions on how to use them in your own application are linked below.