GitHub Writer

Developer Tools

Version: 1.10.1

Last Update: 2022-11-28

Overview

GitHub Writer is a Chrome extension developed by CKSource. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of GitHub Writer is 1.10.1, updated on 2022-11-28.
2,000+ users have installed this extension. 13 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

A WYSIWYG rich-text editor for GitHub issues, comments and pull requests. Powered by CKEditor.

# About

GitHub Writer is a WYSIWYG rich-text editor for GitHub. The extension is available when creating or commenting on issues, reviews, pull requests, and wikis.

It provides all the features available in the GitHub plain-text editor, including Markdown input. For features like tables, it offers a much easier experience in comparison to plain-text Markdown and allows users to be more productive. No more switching to the Preview tab to see what you write!

It is powered by CKEditor 5, a modern JavaScript rich-text editor.

GitHub Writer is an Open Source project and your questions, feedback and contributions are always welcome.

Rating

13 ratings

Total Installs

2,000+

Information

Last Update

2022-11-28

Current Version

1.10.1

Size

3.19MiB

Author

CKSource

Website

None

Category

Developer Tools

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Latest Reviews


D. V. 2022-04-08 Very useful extension. It doesn't work in all situations, and some things are impossible to write (like a table in a bullet list)
Piotrek Koszuliński 2022-04-05 I'm a core CKEditor 5 developer (on which GH Writer is based) so I'm surely biased :D However, I can't imagine working without GitHub Writer anymore. It's so much more convenient to see the actual content that I'm writing, not its source – it gives me certainty that after posting it all will look good. The readability of the content while editing it is also much better – you see the structure (headings, lists) and e.g. images. From UX perspective, working with lists, images and tables is also easier in GitHub than in Markdown, especially when creating more complex content.
Xedd MrC 2021-01-28 An extremely helpful tool for those who just want to get readme.md and other MD things done without having to format everything manually
EmilyRosinaCarey 2020-10-14 Pretty wonderful! Thank you for this! I used it to make editing a massive table in an issue far simpler to update - loving it! The only downfall is the lack of merging available for cells, both horizontally and vertically. I worked round it by just removing some data to make the epic issue smaller anyway, so it ended up not being a problem.
Piotr Maciejewski 2020-07-03 Very useful. Makes writing on GitHub much easier.