nvALT for Dropbox

An nvALT clone for Chrome.

Backlog

  • Investigate the competition & try & get them running locally.
  • Decide on product use cases (Create nvBOX_Use_Cases document).
  • Decide on product MVP.
  • Is produce a web app, Chrome App, etc

Sprint

Competition

I couldn’t see anything directly similar however there are some apps with source code:

  • http://markdown.pioul.fr/
  • https://github.com/pioul/MinimalistOnlineMarkdownEditor
  • http://brettterpstra.com/projects/nvalt/
  • http://layout.jquery-dev.net/demos/simple.html
  • http://layout.jquery-dev.net/
  • http://dillinger.io/
  • https://github.com/joemccann/dillinger
  • Dropbox Core [API][core].
  • Using Dropbox Core from javascript, via GitHub.

JS Based Editors

  • markitup! http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/examples/markdown/
  • StackOverflow on simple Javascript text editor or set of functions
  • http://www.tinymce.com/
  • http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2008/12/20-excellent-free-rich-text-editors/

TODO

Following the getting started example here, have created .../Apps/Static Web Apps/nvbox.

  • APP URL: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/spa/fgcxpjibtx69yz8/nvbox/public/index.html
  • SOURCE URL: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/gzqa19lw0k3gu64/sfw9XZ-FiC

Beta (nv BOX beta)

Beta uses it’s own private folder:

  • App folder name: nv BOX beta
  • App key: ualtj0hpevh9ank
  • App secret: DEADBEEF

nvALT

Windows equivalent is ResophNotes.

And there is a Python version too; nvpy.