# sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor

A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking.

Repository: https://github.com/sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/simplemde-markdown-editor
Homepage: https://simplemde.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2024-06-11T05:28:19+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": 4093, "days_push": 813, "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 10144, forks 1089 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:39.654940+00:00)

## What it is
SimpleMDE is an embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor that replaces a plain textarea with a WYSIWYG-style editing experience, including a toolbar, keyboard shortcuts, live syntax rendering, autosaving, and spell checking. It is designed to make Markdown editing approachable for non-technical users while remaining useful for experts.

## Use cases
- embed a markdown editor in a web form
- replace a plain textarea with a markdown editor
- give non-technical users a friendly markdown editing experience
- add autosaving to a markdown text input
- add spell checking to a markdown editor
- build a blog post or comment composer with markdown support

## When to choose
- you need a drop-in, dependency-light markdown editor for a browser form
- your users are unfamiliar with raw markdown syntax and need toolbar buttons and live rendering
- you want built-in autosave and spell checking without extra wiring

## When to avoid
- you need a actively developed editor with modern framework integrations - the project is in maintenance mode
- you need a full WYSIWYG rich-text editor producing HTML rather than markdown
- you need mobile-first or highly customizable editor architecture - consider alternatives like EasyMDE or CodeMirror-based editors

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: editor, markdown, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors, documentation
- platform: browser
- tags: markdown-editor, wysiwyg, autosave, spell-checking, textarea-replacement, embeddable, javascript, nodejs

## Member repositories
- sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:39.654940+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 2026-08-29T17:19:41.721413+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sparksuite/simplemde-markdown-editor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:39.654940+00:00, sha 14f217c1dfbe)
  - homepage: https://simplemde.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:19:41.424710+00:00, sha e6fd2984e8b7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.