This is, obviously, a markdown editor. It converts markdown notation to HTML.
Its useful for writing markdown files like this README.md file as it will show how it actually gets rendered.
I started working on this project while trying to get familiar with nodejs, back in 2013.
If you want so, I would suggest to only use docker, with some help from docker-compose.
So you will need both installed on your machine.
You should also have cloned this repository and be in its root directory.
Then run:
docker-compose up
Use your browser to browse to localhost and you will then see the editor!
The "front-end" and "back-end" applications, utilize WebSockets to communicate.
Back then, WebSockets were not supported by all browsers and those who did, had versions widely used
that didn't. So, I created a "fallback" functionality that uses AJAX for the two applications to communicate.
For educational purposes, it was created to also spawn a MongoDB instance for storing the logs.
Have fun!