CodeMirror
Developer(s) | Marijn Haverbeke |
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Stable release | 5.65.9
/ September 20, 2022[1] |
Written in | JavaScript |
Platform | Web |
Type | Source code editor |
License | MIT |
Website | codemirror |
CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. It has a rich programming API and a focus on extensibility.
History
The first version of the editor was written early 2007, for the console in the Eloquent JavaScript website. The code was first packaged up and released under the name CodeMirror in May 2007. This version was based on the contentEditable
feature of browsers.[2]
In late 2010, the Ace project, another JavaScript-based code editor, pioneered new implementation techniques and demonstrated that it is possible, even in JavaScript, to handle documents with many thousands of lines without degraded performance. This prompted a rewrite of CodeMirror [3] along the same principles. The result was version 2, which no longer relied on contentEditable
and significantly improved performance.
See also
References
External links
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- Blog series about CodeMirror internals