Project Idea: Blog Editor App
While setting up this blog last week I started looking around for a Markdown app I could use to manage the content. I’ve been using Notable for awhile now to keep my own notes but due to some issues, such as the one I raised here, it doesn’t work well for Jekyll content.
I’ll be watching a few of the WWDC20 videos this week and, as a way to try out whatever I learn, I like to come up a relatively simple app idea I can work along the way. For WWDC18 I ended up creating a Harry Potter style Augmented Reality photo wall app to try out the ARKit framework. I’ll post about that another day.
So for this year, I think I’ll try to create a simple, cross platform, Jekyll content editor using SwiftUI.
Here’s some high level requirements for what I’m thinking.
- Simple split view style layout with a list of posts in the sidebar
- Clicking a post when open a plain text editor on the right to edit markdown
- A preview button that will switch the text editor to a HTML view that renders the markdown
- Ability to save changes and somehow sync with other devices
- Support Jekyll metadata in the markdown content
- Strip it out before displaying the content in the editor
- Provide the ability to edit the metadata in a popup window
- Target platforms would be iPad and MacOS
- Try to stick pure SwiftUI as much as possible
At this point this feels mostly achievable. Bring on WWDC20!