Through the course of building Indie Courses, I have tried many What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) editors. I tried Trix, TipTap, Quill, CKEditor, StacksEditor, Lexical, and some I’ve forgotten. All of them worked, but sadly none of them supported my main use-case well: reliable code syntax highlighting.
The most promising one was ProseMirror and its code-focused sibling, CodeMirror. However, both require quite a bit of custom JavaScript, and eventually, I decided against them in favour of a much simpler alternative: A GitHub-style Markdown Editor.
Here’s how I built it.
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