A markdown editor(with preview) for Django

Use markdown editor https://github.com/sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor in django project, this project is inspired by https://github.com/douglasmiranda/django-wysiwyg-redactor/

Getting started

• install django-simplemde

pip install django-simplemde

• add 'simplemde' to INSTALLED_APPS.

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    # ...
    'simplemde',
    # ...
)

Using in models

from django.db import models
from simplemde.fields import SimpleMDEField

class Entry(models.Model):
    title = models.CharField(max_length=250, verbose_name=u'Title')
    content = SimpleMDEField(verbose_name=u'mardown content')

SimpleMDE options

You could set SimpleMDE options in settings.py like this:

SIMPLEMDE_OPTIONS = {
    'placeholder': 'haha',
    'status': False,
    'autosave': {
        'enabled': True
    }
}

Right now this plugin supports SimpleMDE Configurations, but only the static ones(don't support js configurations like previewRender)

for autosave option, you dont need to set it, this plugin will generate uniqueId with python's uuid.uuid4 automatically

Get SimpleMDE instance from DOM

After SimpleMDE initialized, you could get SimpleMDE instance from dom element like this:

$('.simplemde-box')[0].SimpleMDE