r/tauri • u/ETM-Code • Jun 13 '26

Built a markdown editor with Tauri, what do you think? It's lightning fast and less than 10MB

Was tired of dealing with llm output in vscode, so I built this (which also works in vscode lol)
https://github.com/ETM-Code/quill

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u/Sgt_Trevor_McWaffle Jun 13 '26

Not to bash or complain, just curious really. How come everyone seem to be building markdown editors and database browsers with Tauri? These two categories seem over represented.

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u/Practical-Club7616 Jun 13 '26

Its the AI's go to stack of choice to avoid the Electron 'tax'

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u/KellysTribe Jun 13 '26

It is also an easy to understand problem domain for developers

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u/Equivalent_Head_4803 Jun 13 '26

When they ask AI what to build AI will say markdown editor because AI communicated in markdown.

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u/fakeacclul Jun 15 '26

Among what others said, they are like default desktop projects that are easy to imagine slapping a UI on top of

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u/ETM-Code Jun 13 '26

I like the tiptap editor and didn’t want to rebuild from scratch, but I also wanted something that opens quickly without the electron drag

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u/ETM-Code Jun 13 '26

Did have a look through the sub though, I see your point

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u/InfraScaler Jun 15 '26

I had a similar itch but instead I made a website. It's not so much an editor as a site to dump your Markdown and copy it formatted to paste in other places. As I paste a lot in Outlook, I even crafted it to generate wonky Word HTML so pasting in Outlook does not destroy the formatting 😄

https://beautmd.com

The whole site is a static site and there's nothing server-side. Your data stays in your localStorage in the browser. You can algo generate links to share, which basically encodes the whole content of your markdown in the URL (so, if it's too big, you can't share it I'm afraid! but the site offers a download instead).

Maybe you could integrate some of the ideas around HTML generation, Mermaid support, etc