Proseforge markdown editor

2024-08-22

A side hobby of mine is fiction writing, which as a practice greatly benefits from defining a structure before getting to the writing part. I've been using Scrivener as a tool to do this.

However, I wanted to create something similar on my own, or at least get started with it. After some research, I decided to create an app with Tauri.

Technologies

• Rust
• Tauri
• Vite
• Pnpm

Architecture

I wasn't planning on stopping where I did. I set the project up so that the Tauri implementation was a thin layer that called a headless React library.

The entire project was designed to be platform independent from the ground up. I learned a lot about structuring projects alone the way.

It features

• Edit markdown and render its preview inline
• Use the file system dialogue to create or open markdown files

The code is available on GitHub ^gh