An efficient, lightweight text editor.

⚠️ light:write is in active development

Just Text

light:write is a minimalist text editor to produce high quality, stylized text with ease.

• Lightweight like Notepad,
• Efficient like IDEs,
• Stylized like Photoshop.

All in a meticulously designed, lightweight package.

🦢 Tenets

🚀 Speed

• Optimized to use ~25MB memory total.
• Real-time markdown rendering with no latency.
• Instantly opens and closes, saving precious picoseconds.

🌠 Efficiency

• Intuitive hotkeys.
• Everything accessible in either the editor or top menu.
• Copy as plaintext or save rendered text as an image with a single button (coming soon)

🎆 Style

• Modify font, size, color, bold, and underline.
• Light, Dark, and Spring themes (more to come).
• Native rendering support for LaTeX, code blocks, and HTML.

Installation (⚠️ In development)

1. Download
2. cd into the directory.
3. Run yarn install to install dependencies.
4. Run yarn build to build the app.
5. Run yarn dev to start the app.