Hyde is an electron-based markdown editor that aims to improve the accessibility of Jekyll as a blogging platform for developers and non-developers, alike.
As many users already know, Jekyll holds many benefits over other blogging platforms. Though, it appears that many potential users outside of the developer community are initially intimidated by the foreign Markdown used to compose and format blog posts.
Hyde aims to counter this issue by providing an approachable modular interface, capable of offering the familiar toolbars and live-preview of a word-processor or the simplicity of a minimalistic editor.

• Live Preview
  • Instantly observe changes to your documents in rendered Markdown or HTML as you create them
• Sync-scrolling allows the preview to keep up with you as you type
• GitHub Flavored Markdown(GFM)
• User-friendly formatting via the toolbar
• Syntax highlighting for Markdown, GFM-compatible HTML, and YAML frontmatter
• A large collection of popular syntax-themes
• 🎉 Emoji support 🎉
• Full screen mode
  • Write free of all distractions
• Integrated word count
• App can remain active in tray for quick access
• All contained within an approachable, modular interface that caters to your workflow
• Cross platform
  • Windows, Mac and Linux ready

After cloning this repository, install and run the application using the command:

>$ npm install && npm start

For those looking to contribute to the projects development, gulp watch can be used to provide preprocessor compilation and live-reload functionalities.
In case you're looking for an easy way to contribute to this project but aren't sure where to start, I've created a list of minor bugs and/or issues to be fixed before the projects initial release, which you can find here. Also, before submitting a pull-request, I would ask that you first take a look at the projects Contributing guidelines.