# OscarGodson/EpicEditor

EpicEditor is an embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor with split fullscreen editing, live previewing, automatic draft saving, offline support, and more. For developers, it offers a robust API, can be easily themed, and allows you to swap out the bundled Markdown parser with anything you throw at it.

Repository: https://github.com/OscarGodson/EpicEditor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/epiceditor
Homepage: http://epiceditor.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-04-13T20:28:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5333, "days_push": 2333, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4212, forks 325 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:39.114578+00:00)

## What it is
EpicEditor is an embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor providing split fullscreen editing, live preview, automatic draft saving via localStorage, and offline support. It exposes a developer API with theming and pluggable Markdown parsers, but the project is officially deprecated and no longer maintained.

## Use cases
- embed a markdown editor in a web page
- add live preview markdown editing to a blog admin
- split-screen markdown editor with fullscreen
- autosave drafts of markdown content in the browser
- swap in a custom markdown parser
- replace a textarea with a markdown editor

## When to choose
- you need a quick, dependency-light embeddable markdown editor for a legacy project
- you want client-side draft saving and offline editing without a backend
- you need a themable editor with a pluggable parser

## When to avoid
- starting a new project - it is deprecated and unmaintained
- you need security fixes, modern browser guarantees, or long-term support
- you need a rich WYSIWYG or collaborative editing experience

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: editor, markdown, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors, developer-tools
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: markdown-editor, live-preview, embeddable, split-pane, localstorage, deprecated, javascript

## Member repositories
- OscarGodson/EpicEditor (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.114578+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:22:28.217773+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/OscarGodson/EpicEditor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.114578+00:00, sha c215098d02f5)
  - homepage: http://epiceditor.com (fetched 2026-08-29T09:13:00.476100+00:00, sha 4cdfe975f5da)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.