light-pen

Light(weight) Code(pen)

Demo

https://konnorrogers.github.io/light-pen

Purpose

A small lightweight editor using <pre><code></code></pre> and a <textarea>

Inspired by Chris Ferdinandi

Install

npm install light-pen

Getting started

// Auto-register <light-pen>
import "light-pen"

// Registry yourself
import LightPen "light-pen/exports/light-pen.js"

LightPen.define() // Registers `<light-pen>`

// Register under another name
import LightPen "light-pen/exports/light-pen.js"
LightPen.define("other-name")

Usage

<light-pen></light-pen>

That's it!

Slotting in HTML / CSS / JS

<light-pen>
  <script type="text/plain" slot="html">
    <div style="color: red;">
      <div>Hi there friends</div>
    </div>

    <p>
      Sup dude
    </p>
  </script>

  <script type="text/plain" slot="css">
    p {
      color: green;
    }
  </script>

  <script type="text/plain" slot="js">
    console.log("Hi")
  </script>
</light-pen>

Changing the title

<light-pen>
  <div slot="title">My Awesome Editor</div>
</light-pen>

Opening languages by default

<light-pen> Takes a string of comma separated languages to open on initial render.

<light-pen open-languages="html,css,js">
</light-pen>

More to come for more docs coming on how to change things!

Roadmap

• [ ] - Implement an extendable LightPenBase which includes a pluggable syntax highlighter and theme.
• [ ] - Implement <textarea> rendering hooks to add CodeMirror for more robuste setups.
• [ ] - Add vertical resizing of <textarea>
• [ ] - More documentation around customization.
• [ ] - Add a console logger

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