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Discussion on: Write faster in the dev.to editor - adding a WYSIWYG and keyboard shortcuts! [hack 2]

 
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Arek Nawo

Kind-of. Right now it works like that:

  • you write your piece in CodeWrite editor
  • then "pin it for publishing"
  • then go to one of Medium, Hashnode, or Dev.to, open pop-up and click publish

CodeWrite detects potential issues (e.g. images too large, code highlighting not supported), presents you with potential solutions (e.g. resize image to FHD, convert to GitHub Gists embeds) and "auto-fills" the post's content within the editor.

Auto-filling and issue-resolving mechanisms aren't the same for every website, and so they aren't good candidates for an API.
I could provide generalized access to the pop-up menu and created content, but this would leave too much work on the API user's side.
As for standard "Markdown exports" - they're in development, alongside GitHub Pages auto-filling.
Hopefully, I'm clear. CodeWrite is a rather unique idea and it's quite hard to explain it properly.