What WordPress, Medium, Hashnode and many other blogging platforms have in common? They all use one, although highly customized, editor. That is TinyMCE.

Problem

While writing article on Medium their editor just plain sucks. There is no easy way of doing so simple task as previewing article.

Remediation

This is no easy task esecially for standard reader/user. IT pro will know what, and where, to do.

Thesis

Basically there are two ways of doing it:

• old-fashioned way: using external Markdown editor, like MarkDown Pad, write your article and than cpy-paste (ctrl+c >> ctrl+v) into Medium's editor,
• more modern way: using WebDev Tools as well as this little browser extension

How to

Bear in mind: this is not official guide. Steps below have been found out by me after many hours of playing with & testing various approaches.

If you decide to enable preview mode, you need to:

• inspect Medium with WebDev Tools,
• find tab that displays CSS/SASS code,
• you will notice code:

.preview-btn,
.prv-btn {
...
display: none;
...
}

• change display: none; to display:grid
• no need to save it, WebDev Tools autoapplies changes

Remember: do not reload page! Upon reloading, yoiur changes will be gone!