Platen is a Markdown Wordpress Editor, built as a Chrome Web app.

See this blog post for more details.

Building

You need to install grunt to be able to build platen.

Once grunt is installed, you can use:

grunt uglify

to generate platen.js for the first time. After that, you can use:

grunt watch

to constantly watch the js files, and then build the platen.js as and when they change.

Generating packaged ZIP file

To generate a fully packaged platen.zip file for distribution, you can run

grunt zip