Dillinger is a cloud-enabled, mobile-ready, offline-storage compatible, AngularJS-powered HTML5 Markdown editor.

• Type some Markdown on the left
• See HTML in the right
• ✨Magic ✨

• 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

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.

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 on GitHub.

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