openedx / openedx/frontend-app-authoring

Add formatting buttons to new Markdown editor

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Dominant language
TypeScript
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Forks
218
Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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Description

Description

The old editor had these buttons to help with "markdown" formatting (note, it's not really markdown, but anyway):
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We'd like these added to the new editor, too.

Status

There is PR which got most of the way to implementing this, but the author abandoned it: https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-authoring/pull/2456

Any contributor could start with that PR's branch, factor in Brian's review feedback, and I think it'd be good to merge.

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reviewing the abandoned PR #2456 and Brian's review feedback, then compare the old editor's formatting buttons with the new editor. Use that PR branch as the entry point; the work is done when the new editor provides the requested formatting buttons and the reviewed implementation is ready to merge.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
react, typescript
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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