idan/gistio

A gist-backed pretty display for markdown.

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App.

Available Scripts

In the project directory, you can run:

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

npm test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.
See the section about running tests for more information.

npm run build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.

The build is minified and the filenames include the hashes.
Your app is ready to be deployed!

See the section about deployment for more information.

npm run eject

Note: this is a one-way operation. Once you eject, you can’t go back!

If you aren’t satisfied with the build tool and configuration choices, you can eject at any time. This command will remove the single build dependency from your project.

Instead, it will copy all the configuration files and the transitive dependencies (Webpack, Babel, ESLint, etc) right into your project so you have full control over them. All of the commands except eject will still work, but they will point to the copied scripts so you can tweak them. At this point you’re on your own.

You don’t have to ever use eject. The curated feature set is suitable for small and middle deployments, and you shouldn’t feel obligated to use this feature. However we understand that this tool wouldn’t be useful if you couldn’t customize it when you are ready for it.

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gistio's Issues

should convert double-dash to emdash

This is along the lines of #39.

Show number of views?

auto-preview editing experience

I want to full-screen and have markdown on the left and an automatically-updated preview on the right. The two should be synced wrt scrolling. Preview should exactly match site.

@idan Is this a feature you're interested in?

should style tables

I can add markup for a table but I can't style it, neither with a <style> element nor with style attributes (both are stripped by GFM, I serpose).

E.g.: http://gist.io/3593759

iframes in markdown / gists not displaying on gist.io

I created this example gist with 2 iframes - one bringing in a visual from a webpage and a second with a youtube video:

https://gist.github.com/tkb/6377766

The embedded content does not render on gist.io:

http://gist.io/6377766

Is this a bug / limitation?

Any suggested workarounds?

Bookmarklet leads to 404 page

Hey, when I use the bookmarklet to convert e.g. https://gist.github.com/quchen/5284753 I'm redirected to http://gist.io/quchen/5284753, which does not exist. Deleting my username manually then yields the correct URL http://gist.io/5284753.

(Could be that my Firefox 16 has some JS bug though.)

support embedding tweet/facebook/github/etc button

Right now html is escaped so embedding these social buttons is not possible (e.g. https://dev.twitter.com/docs/tweet-button)

gist.io is not loading gist content

Readers of my gist.io posts reported this morning that the gist.io URLs are not rendering the gist content?

"No Content Found

Quite flummoxed. Terribly sorry."

Not sure if this is a gist.io thing or a github thing?

Instapaper/Readability Compatibility

Considering the fact that this is for reading writings rather than codes, I think it makes sense to make it compatible with Instapaper and other services similar to it.

Also the <title> element should be the description rather than gist.io#.

Implement syntax highlighting for code

It'd be nice to be able to show code snippets in posts.

Add commenting via github auth

Is the project alive?

Hello.
Seems like the last commit was 5 months ago, I was wondering if the maintainer stopped working on Gist.io , or maybe he just took a break.

I really love the idea of turn Gist.io into a blogging platform (Users, Comments, etc.) because I'm not comfortable with Wordpress/Blogger/Tumblr and I don't want to set up a Jekyll/Octopress site. I find Gist.io great for writing but... it's not a blogging platform.

Horizontal rules appear as hr tags

http://gist.io/2789275

<hr/> tags appear in the text of this page.

"Unable to Fetch Gist" for cyrillic filenames

Sample gists:

• https://gist.github.com/lolmaus/6578875
• https://gist.github.com/lolmaus/6811783

Support literal haskell!

Ahoy there!

Literal haskell is a fantastic writing medium, it also helps that it's markdown compatible. This issue description is in literal haskell, and can be compiled by any haskell compiler (as a file with a .lhs extension).

Code to compile is in markdown blockquotes like so:

factorial' :: [Int] -> Int
factorial' [] = 0
factorial' (x:xs) = x * factorial xs

In theory all you should have to do is add .lhs to your list of supported file types somewhere and it should just work. I totally get that there probably won't be much demand for this though.

Write a bookmarklet that flips you to the gistio page from a gist

Multiple nested lists look terrible

See here: http://gist.io/985132

Private Gists - 404 Not Found

Are private gists supported?

revisions don't work

Shows the first version only. Also, ## doesn't work. See https://gist.github.com/3140015 and http://gist.io/3140015

Hungarian accents are not supported by the current web font

http://gist.io/6960000

Balatonfűzfő vs Balatonfuzfo

The accent characters are missing. I'm happy to send a pull request but I don't know the proper font. I would choose from this list http://www.google.com/fonts.

Add support for viewing all gists that belong to a user

I'd really like to be able to point someone to http://gist.io/pcrockett where they can see several of my gists on one page. Similar to the way you see a user's gists when you go to https://gist.github.com/pcrockett, but pretty.

Add support for Restructured Text

Show author avatar if the gist isn't anonymous

Redirect to a meaningful URL

It would be nice to have more meaningful URLs such as:

gist.io/jeromegn/123456-sluggified-post-title

That's all possible without user intervention.

• Username: Armed with the gist API, you could know which user this belongs to.
• Slug: Generated from the gist's description

As soon as somebody hits gist.io/123456 you could redirect them to the more meaningful URL.

Add author and date at the header

It's good to have a way to instantly know who authored a gist without clicking its source.

Reference-style link support

This is An Example reference-style link.

[an example]: http://example.com/ "Optional Title Here"

should convert to smart-quotes

I know that WordPress or at least a plugin has an algo for this. Could check that or other implementations, I'm sure they're out there. Bringhurst would demand it.

GitHub Flavored Markdown

Gists use GitHub Flavored Markdown:
http://github.github.com/github-flavored-markdown/

bug shown here:

http://gist.io/3140327
vs
https://gist.github.com/3140327

implement kudos

@idan What do you think of borrowing this feature from Svbtle?

No content for gist 3615628

Any help?
http://gist.io/3615628
https://gist.github.com/3615628

Add HTML anchors to headlines

It would be pretty neat if one could directly link to sections of a gist, e.g. http://gist.io/12345#my-awesome-section. Would it be feasible to automatically generated the necessary anchors from the section title? :)

Use proper headers for cache expiration

X-Expire-TTL-Seconds on gistio.py:47 is simply retarded.

Says "No Content Found" for existing gist

https://gist.github.com/3249086

It's public & in Markdown.

allow slugs in URL

Should be able to hit http://gist.io/3789349/some-text-here.html or whatever. Bonus points for modifying it for the user with the history API as the title changes.

Need a new maintainer / someone to help?

Hey @idan, I've noticed that gistio has been untouched for almost a year now. If you've got other things going on and don't have time to maintain it anymore, I'd really like to offer my help as a committer or co-maintainer. The site's quite cool and I'd hate to see it remain untouched! Please let me know if you think there'd be room for someone to help you out here.

Use maruku instead of markdown

Maruku has more advanced features than markdown. For instance, you cannot make a table of contents, a linkable anchor, etc. (see example: http://gist.io/3141153).

Looks great so far :-)

Fix styling of images/videos/objects/etc.

Should fit into the content-column with max-width: 100%, at the very least.

Image sizing

This gist: https://gist.github.com/3138370 renders an image that "fits" the page, however gist.io inflates it to full size: http://gist.io/3138370

Maintaining the smaller image is what I expected (and would be a great feature for blogs).

Newlines in code not reflected at gist.io

See gist: https://gist.github.com/3145449

Note the new line between the first line of code and the second line of code.

See gist.io: http://gist.io/3145449

Perhaps instead of:

<p>
  <code> 
  /* code in here... */
  /* more code on a new line... */
  </code>
</p>

...it should be:

<p><code>/* code in here... */</code></p>
<p><code>/* more code on a new line... */</code></p>

Support private gists

Not sure if this is an intentional incompatibility, but this:

https://gist.github.com/85126ceb850513ecc276

Does not appear to map to this:

http://gist.io/85126ceb850513ecc276

When I attempt to access the gist.io link, I get a 404.

Markup on gist not rendering

The gist id is 3165119.

Support several Markdown files in order

So, if it is a big thing that I am writing, I'd name my files like this:

• 00-intro.md (optional, may start from 01)
• 01-chapter-one.md
• 02-chapter-two.md
• 03-chapter-three.md
• and so on....

Currently, my gist is reordered :(

Directly serve rendered pages from cache

Instead of doing the JS loading in any case as it is now.

Implement a vertical rhythm for type

put title in <title>

Right now it's just the gist number, which is unhelpful.

reStructuredText support

I think it'd be nice if I can view reStructuredText documents using gist.io, and looking at the python code, I think it's possible.

I don't know much about CSS though, but that shouldn't be hard either.

would be nice to have italics in titles

Make it work without JS

It would be nice if viewing the contents (which is fairly static) wouldn't require me to have JavaScript enabled (and available at all) in the browser. This way I could also wget/curl such a page, etc.

"Unable to Fetch Gist" on example post et. al

Trying to access the "example post" linked in gist.io get the "Unable to Fetch Gist" error page.
Similarly accessing any gist yields the same error page.

Using the "Web Inspector" in Safari, under the "log" panel there is the following error

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 500 (Internal Server Error) http://gist.io/3135754/content

Support GitHub Flavored Markdown's Triple Tick for code blocks.

GitHub Flavored Markdown allows blocks of code to be marked up with a triple back tick opening and closing the block. Gist.io currently does not appear to support this.

Example: GitHub Gist → Gist.io Gist