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This year I was most interested in looking at the repository for Zettlr, because a lot of history has amassed. Some End-of-the-Year DataĪs every year, let’s have a look at some data. It’s one of my dream-goals to make that happen.

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A second chunk of work I want to implement in 2021 is a full migration to Vue.js for the graphical user interface, in the hope of making it as snappy as many other native apps.

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This will free users from installing additional programs, making the app even more user-friendly. One of the big things planned in 2021 is the bundling of Pandoc with the app which has already begun.

Implementing new features and improving existing ones is very easy now, and so I think that the fourth year will possibly be when Zettlr reaches 2.0 and becomes the serious competition to proprietary editors I always wanted it to be.

In the past three years, I’ve had the chance to learn from thousands of mistakes, and now that I have corrected most of them, the app has matured quite a bit. So let’s risk a look into the future – how does 2021 look like for Zettlr? Well, I have more and more the feeling that the app feels “completed” so that the development speed will possibly decrease while maintaining the same rate of feature implementations. For me, his engagement is one prime example for how Open Source projects can flourish, and his initiative has motivated me to perform some work for other Open Source projects as well – for instance documentation improvements to CodeMirror and a little bit help for some Zotero plugins.Ĭheck out JabRef – it’s a good alternative to Zotero for the more STEM-oriented folks among you, and they certainly deserve praise for their work! 2021 and Zettlr Without him, Zettlr certainly would be much more error-prone than it is, and a lot of cool stuff that I was able to implement has been made possible purely due to his efforts. This was quite the endeavour, and hence I would like to thank a special person for doing that work: Tobias Dietz of the JabRef project.

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The whole migration was a very time-consuming process, and the initial changes in the code to make it happen changed over a hundred files. I haven’t counted, but there were dozens of occasions where I discovered bugs simply by migrating a file to TypeScript. TypeScript helps, in short, to detect errors before they make it into a release. Using types to check your code for possible logical errors is one of the most efficient ways to check, for instance, that you are indeed working with a file descriptor, or rather with just a number. Indeed, having the option to code using TypeScript was one of the biggest blessings of the year.

This has enabled two things: First, the size of the app was drastically reduced, and second, due to the availability of TypeScript I have managed to kill off a lot of bugs that went unnoticed so far. While it did have quite some bugs for some time, the work did pay off, because now a lot more is possible with regard to file management (and only a few dozen lines of code divide Zettlr from a full code editor such as VS Code).īut there was an additional improvement that has done even more for Zettlr: The switch to Electron forge and the beginning TypeScript migration in 1.8. The first big improvement this year was the File System Abstraction Layer that was implemented in version 1.7. But, additionally, this year I had much more time to work on Zettlr in my free time – it seems as if it does save time when you don’t go to the pub every other day ) Of course, this was a mixture of different aspects – I am a much better JavaScript developer now than three years ago, so my development speed had to increase either way. However, instead of becoming less productive, I was able to cramp more and more features and enhancements into the app than ever before. I won’t go over all the nifty details again as I did last year, but provide a more broad overview over what has happened in this crazy year.Īs so many other things, the development of Zettlr has been influenced by the year 2020 quite fundamentally. Three years ago, the first version of Zettlr has been released to the public.