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