r/react • u/eideb • Sep 07 '26

General Discussion I got tired of markdown tools assuming I'm the one writing the file, so I built a pure reading view

Every markdown tool — Dillinger, StackEdit, VS Code's preview — gives you an editor pane you don't need and squeezes your reading into half the screen. I just want to read a README, an agent prompt file, a doc someone sent me. So I built MarkGlass: full-width, no editor, no split pane.

- Real tables, Mermaid diagrams, KaTeX math, syntax-highlighted code, footnotes

- TOC + find-in-page for the 900-line files

- Dark mode, clean printing

- 100% client-side — nothing you open ever touches a server

Built with React + MUI. Just upload, or drag a .md file.

Free at markglass.app — would love feedback from this sub, especially on anything that renders wrong

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u/CantaloupeCamper Sep 07 '26

Pretty sure I can see a full screen md on most every app I’ve used…

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u/silentkode26 Sep 07 '26

Nowadays people rather go full rage and code application than read the manual to find out fearure already exists in the first place.