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    # Dillinger

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

    - Type some Markdown on the left
    - See HTML in the right
    - Magic

    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][df1]

    > 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.

    ### Version
    3.2.0

    ### Tech

    Dillinger uses a number of open source projects to work properly:

    * [AngularJS] - HTML enhanced for web apps!
    * [Ace Editor] - awesome web-based text editor
    * [Marked] - a super fast port of Markdown to JavaScript
    * [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
    * [keymaster.js] - awesome keyboard handler lib by [@thomasfuchs]
    * [jQuery] - duh

    And of course Dillinger itself is open source with a [public repository][dill]
    on GitHub.

    ### Installation

    You need Gulp installed globally:

    ```sh
    $ npm i -g gulp
    ```

    ```sh
    $ git clone [git-repo-url] dillinger
    $ cd dillinger
    $ npm i -d
    $ mkdir -p downloads/files/{md,html,pdf}
    $ gulp build --prod
    $ NODE_ENV=production node app
    ```

    ### Plugins

    Dillinger is currently extended with the following plugins

    * Dropbox
    * Github
    * Google Drive
    * OneDrive

    Readmes, how to use them in your own application can be found here:

    * [plugins/dropbox/README.md] [PlDb]
    * [plugins/github/README.md] [PlGh]
    * [plugins/googledrive/README.md] [PlGd]
    * [plugins/onedrive/README.md] [PlOd]

    ### Development

    Want to contribute? Great!

    Dillinger uses Gulp + Webpack for fast developing.
    Make a change in your file and instantanously see your updates!

    Open your favorite Terminal and run these commands.

    First Tab:
    ```sh
    $ node app
    ```

    Second Tab:
    ```sh
    $ gulp watch
    ```

    (optional) Third:
    ```sh
    $ karma start
    ```

    ### Todos

    - Write Tests
    - Rethink Github Save
    - Add Code Comments
    - Add Night Mode

    License
    ----

    MIT


    **Free Software, Hell Yeah!**

    [//]: # (These are reference links used in the body of this note and get stripped out when the markdown processor does it's job. There is no need to format nicely because it shouldn't be seen. Thanks SO - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4823468/store-comments-in-markdown-syntax)


    [dill]: <https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger>
    [git-repo-url]: <https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger.git>
    [john gruber]: <http://daringfireball.net>
    [@thomasfuchs]: <http://twitter.com/thomasfuchs>
    [df1]: <http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>
    [marked]: <https://github.com/chjj/marked>
    [Ace Editor]: <http://ace.ajax.org>
    [node.js]: <http://nodejs.org>
    [Twitter Bootstrap]: <http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/>
    [keymaster.js]: <https://github.com/madrobby/keymaster>
    [jQuery]: <http://jquery.com>
    [@tjholowaychuk]: <http://twitter.com/tjholowaychuk>
    [express]: <http://expressjs.com>
    [AngularJS]: <http://angularjs.org>
    [Gulp]: <http://gulpjs.com>

    [PlDb]: <https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger/tree/master/plugins/dropbox/README.md>
    [PlGh]: <https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger/tree/master/plugins/github/README.md>
    [PlGd]: <https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger/tree/master/plugins/googledrive/README.md>
    [PlOd]: <https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger/tree/master/plugins/onedrive/README.md>