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EasyMDE

Drop-in JavaScript Markdown editor that replaces a textarea, with a toolbar, live rendering of Markdown syntax and autosave.

EasyMDE is a Markdown editor that replaces a textarea on a page. It shows the Markdown syntax while the text is written, with a toolbar, a status bar, autosave and spell checking, and it renders previews with Marked using GitHub Flavored Markdown. The project bundles CodeMirror and depends on Font Awesome for its icons.

Worth knowing

The README describes EasyMDE as a fork of SimpleMDE and as a continuation of that project. The LICENSE names two copyright holders, the SimpleMDE project’s Sparksuite and this fork’s maintainer. The image upload options hand files to an endpoint or a custom function, and the README asks the server to check file size and type because the browser check can be bypassed.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Jeroen Akkerman2
Maintained by
Individual
First release
20183

Rendering and deploy

Install with
npm4

Releases

Current major version
25
Last release
2026-05-033

Adoption

GitHub stars
3,0961
npm downloads a week
292,0377
Contributors
946

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-11-08: links, Written in, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor
  2. 2026-11-08: Maintainer, License, License model
    raw.githubusercontent.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor/master/LICENSE
  3. 2026-11-08: First release, Last release
    registry.npmjs.org/easymde
  4. 2026-11-08: Categories, Install with, Multilingual
    raw.githubusercontent.com/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor/master/README.md
  5. 2026-11-08: Current major version
    registry.npmjs.org/easymde/latest
  6. 2026-11-08: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/Ionaru/easy-markdown-editor/contributors
  7. 2026-11-08: npm downloads a week
    api.npmjs.org/downloads/range/2026-11-01:2026-11-07/easymde

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