Parchment

Parchment is a minimal text editor written using web technologies for Windows, Linux and MacOS.

Special thanks to the following libraries and assets:

SolidJS - for a very performant and lightweight javascript framework
TailwindCSS to allow for simple styling of the application
Tauri - a rust wrapper that allows you to create fast and secure desktop applications using web technologies
Uses this Notepad icon from Flaticon (free to use for personal and commercial purposes) for the taskbar icon.
Tabler Icons for the few icons used within this application.

This app should work on Windows, MacOS and Linux however it only has been tested on Windows.

Usage

Head to the releases page to download pre-built executables. If you want you can build it, please follow the building section below.

Before you build, you need to have everything required installed follow this guide to install Tauri and its dependencies.

Once everything needed is installed, building this app is very simple:

git clone https://github.com/tywil04/parchment.git
cd parchment
npm install
npm run tauri build

Once the build has been completed, you will find the executables in src-tauri/target/release/bundle

Parchment Text Editor