About Gorilla Editor

Why?

I wrote this software, because I needed a way to cobble together working code examples with no fuzz.

It should be easy to use, as easy as simply firing up Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome and opening up a web-page.

I also needed a way to share these documents and it should be as easy as sharing a link.

The link is the content!

An additional requirement was to always have the content available, even if this site goes down. This means, if you have the (share-)link, you basically have all the content.

The content is basically a gzipped and then hex-encoded string, attached to the shared URL (as GET-parameter).

With this url, you can take the content parameter and decode it like so:

php -r "echo gzinflate(hex2bin('2b492d2e0100'));"

Software Used

• nginx - The open source web server that powers 400 million websites
• PHP - A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development
• Ace - is an embeddable code editor written in JavaScript. It matches the features and performance of native editors such as Sublime, Vim and TextMate
• babel-minify - An ES6+ aware minifier based on the Babel toolchain
• Taskfile - The Taskfile runner script: Better than Makefile, Grunt, Node and whatnot
• Neovim - literally the future of vim
• Prettier - An opinionated code formatter
• ESLint - The pluggable linting utility for JavaScript and JSX