hi, maintenance, whitesmith:master

[edrex]

Hi @fiatjaf!

Been looking for a minimal Prose successor, preferable using Prosemirror ever since Prose got put in the attic, and just found Coisas. Thank you!

I want to contribute to this. Need another maintainer? I want to test it a bunch, identify outstanding bugs in existing features, do any maintenance tasks like updating prosemirror, and eventually look into adding at least one major feature (fork+pullrequest when editing someone else's repo, also maybe Gitlab or similar API support #15 ).

@tomasmcm recently made some improvements in master...whitesmith:master that would be worth cleaning up and merging IMO.

• add parcel + organize into dirs + doc love
• nice UX improvements with a drill-down single pane view, still needs to reintegrate the image selector pane.

@tomasmcm you want to clean up or give blessing for someone else to?

PS I've been hacking on client-side editor tech -specifically semantic stuff like prosemirror- for literally 2 decades

[fiatjaf]

Hi, @edrex!

This project is so abandoned I'll accept basically anything, but your offers are much better than I could have imagined! You seen to be trustworthy and much more capable than me to deal with it, so I invited you to be a collaborator.

I have no idea of what have to be done here. I stopped using Coisas myself little time after getting it working. Also, I have some weird problem that prompts me to try out a new technology every time I start a new project. This time it was Mobx, which I disliked and stopped using, that made it more difficult for me to keep fixing bugs and improving things.

Prosemirror was a thing I never intended to touch again, because it confused my soul and twisted my brain when I was adding it. I have no idea how I managed to put it in a state in which it barely worked. It's great that you have experience with that. Please feel free to make any improvements you feel right.

I didn't even know about @tomasmcm's branch. Seems good enough to me. I love Browserify, but Parcel seems great (never managed to get it working myself however), and at least it's not Webpack. For this project specifically I remember deciding to not try to do a pretty UI at all, just do something that barely resembled a usable interface and move on, so any improvement is welcomed.

[tomasmcm]

Hi @edrex @fiatjaf ! This is great news!

I found this project while also looking for a Prose.io alternative as it only has support for YAML and CSV. In the meantime, we decided to use another project (Netlify), but I still think there is a need for this.

The goal of my fork was really to make the dev setup easier (hence parcel), and make the UI look more polished. I can't say I've accomplished both but it's a start.
@edrex Feel free to reuse it as you see fit. Also, if you want you can set me as a reviewer if you'd like an extra set of eyes (I still have the project setup, so it's easy to spin up and check).

Cheers,
Tomás

[edrex]

My main interest is in having a tool like this I can reach for for content editing, and having a maintenance plan for it going forward. I'm aware of Netlify CMS but I don't want a CMS, just a simple editor.

Prototypes with the "ugly and minimally functional" aesthetic usually mean a developer focused on validating assumptions (like new tech, UI ideas, architecture and whatnot) in a low risk environment (which is great, when you can take some time to do that)

I had to look Mobx up. A few years ago there was a lot of confusion about how to represent state in React (classic functional programming confusion), and I guess it was one of the hot picks? Hopefully it will seem like something familiar.

I've been doing mostly backend/data flow stuff at work for several years, and using Elm for toy projects. When I say I've been hacking on editors for two decades, emphasis on hacking and more the last decade than this one 😏.

Browserify has been my go-to too. Having the build pipelines automatically figured out based on dependency graph and target sounds pretty good though. I haven't set up a dev env yet, will do for both build chains and try them out. Thanks for offering to review @tomasmcm, will tag you. I think the UI stuff will have to be massaged a bit, mostly just lack of image selection support unless I missed something.

[edrex]

Actually I'll leave this open until merge is resolved.