ace VS quill

Compare ace vs quill and see what are their differences.

ace

Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor) (by ajaxorg)

quill

Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility. (by quilljs)
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ace quill
34 56
26,334 38,714
0.4% 1.7%
9.4 9.5
2 days ago 3 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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ace

Posts with mentions or reviews of ace. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-25.
  • Show HN: A note-keeping system on top of Fossil SCM
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2023
    I used a note system built on top of Fossil as my primary system for quite a while. Here are the details in case anyone is interested.

    Fossil allows CGI extensions[1]. There's a database for tickets, but that's just a regular SQLite table that you can use to store anything you want, and it's version controlled and queryable. I stored the notes plus metadata in the tickets database. The CGI returned HTML with the Ace editor for creating/editing notes.[2] Notes were stored using the command line.[3] I needed to add the web server user to the sudoers file to access the Fossil binary.

    There were two reasons to use Fossil for this. The biggest was that it handled authentication. The second is that I had a version controlled database to do all the work for me.

    I think I eventually moved away from it because I prefer working locally. The "transition" was dumping the data out of the database and into markdown files.

    [1] https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/serverext.wiki

    [2] https://ace.c9.io/

    [3] https://fossil-scm.org/home/help?cmd=ticket

  • browser based editor?
    2 projects | /r/PHP | 19 May 2023
    Ace editor -> https://ace.c9.io/
  • Writing a (simple) code editor for the web?
    4 projects | /r/AskProgramming | 8 Apr 2023
    Hey there! Thanks for reaching out. Writing a code editor with syntax highlighting in a browser can be a little tricky, but it's definitely doable. One resource that might be helpful is the Ace Editor library (https://ace.c9.io/). It's a lightweight but powerful editor that includes syntax highlighting for a huge range of languages. You could also check out CodeMirror (https://codemirror.net/), which is another popular library for building web-based code editors. Good luck, and let us know how it goes!
  • The ShnooTalk programming language
    6 projects | /r/ProgrammingLanguages | 10 Nov 2022
    The frontend uses the ace editor for syntax highlighting and then sends all the "text" you have typed to a python backend. The backend then writes all the text to a temporary directory and calls the compiler using subprocess (something similar to os.system).
  • MDSlides - Simple markdown presentation tool
    2 projects | /r/Markdown | 29 Oct 2022
    It is built using Reveal.js and Ace, and is a simple markdown presentation tool right in the browser.
  • Frontend library for syntax highlighting / validation of uBlock rules
    4 projects | /r/uBlockOrigin | 14 Aug 2022
    Thanks for the suggestion! Although Ace is not the most popular kid in the block, it is still maintained. It does support tmLanguage and could be used for a proof-of-concept editor!
  • Edit code from browser
    2 projects | /r/reactjs | 5 Jul 2022
    For the code editing you can use Ace.
  • Speed Coding Toptal
    2 projects | dev.to | 4 Jul 2022
  • Running Vim Text Editor in the Browser with WebAssembly
    2 projects | /r/vim | 3 Jun 2022
    This would cool to use as an embedded editor browser plugin. Surfingkeys' quirky vim emualation editor, Ace, could be replaced. for example. I think there are other plugins that emulate vim or remotely use neovim, but this approach would be so much better.
  • I created a chrome extension for enabling relative line numbering in Overleaf
    3 projects | /r/vim | 21 May 2022
    It turns out that Overleaf uses the open-source Ace editor, which actually has an option for relative line numbering, but toggling it is not possible in the Overleaf UI. However, it can be enabled from the browser console by running these lines of code.

quill

Posts with mentions or reviews of quill. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.
  • WYSIWYG editor for a new Rails project
    6 projects | /r/rails | 10 Dec 2023
    I started with Quill... wound up hitting lots of challenges. There are bugs/issues like, "don't add extra margin or it will be converted to extra spaces." I also struggled to embed Quill into an HTML form element, which I though would be easy.
  • Any FOSS to make HTML websites for self-hosting?
    4 projects | /r/opensource | 7 Dec 2023
    Fair enough. Look maybe into more of a utility like Quill? https://quilljs.com/
  • You don't need a CRDT to build a collaborative experience
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2023
    I agree. Yes, you can. Quill is the example here.

    Actually, back in 2015 when we started prototyping CKEditor 5, we started with this approach as well. Our goal from the beginning was to combine real-time editing capabilities with an engine capable of storing and rendering complex rich-text structures (nested tables, complex nested lists, other rich widgets, etc.). We quickly realized that a linear structure is going to be a huge bottleneck. In the end, if you want to represent trees, storing them as a linear structure is counterproductive.

    So, we went for a tree model. That got many things in the engine an order of magnitude harder (OT being one). But I choose to encapsulate this complexity in the model rather than make it leak to particular plugins.

    In fact, from what I remember, https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/117 (e.g. https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/117#issuecomment-644...) is a good example of issues that we avoided.

    I also talked to companies that built their platforms on top of Quill. One of them ended up gluing together countless Quill instances to power their editor and overcome the limitations of the linear data model but is now looking for a way to rebuild their editor from scratch due to the issues (performance, complexity, stability).

    So, yes. You can implement a rich-text editor based on a linear model. But it has its immediate limitations that you need to take into consideration.

  • Which Rich Text Editor to use ?
    2 projects | /r/reactjs | 6 Jul 2023
    I've always used Quill and always satisfied with it. It can be adapted to React Native as well. Despite the most popular RTE is Draft js it has some limitations on mobile.
  • Good Markdown Editor for SvelteKit?
    7 projects | /r/sveltejs | 3 Apr 2023
    Quill
  • Are WYSIWYG text entry areas difficult to implement in web and mobile apps? Because I see Markdown so much instead.
    2 projects | /r/AskProgramming | 13 Mar 2023
    All you need to do is find a free library and add it.
    2 projects | /r/AskProgramming | 13 Mar 2023
    So if one were to use https://quilljs.com/ as /u/ike_the_strangetamer suggested and just include a disclaimer that the site doesn't support pasting in some things, would that work?
  • Critical bug resulting in irretrievable (?) data loss
    4 projects | /r/Cryptee | 14 Feb 2023
    In short there are two different types of keyboards. One type, like GBoard sends entire words once you select an autocorrect recommendation from the list... it sends the whole word, all its characters, all at the same time [acts almost like pasting], whereas other keyboards send letter-by-letter. If you think about how autocorrect on phones work nowadays, if you type the word wrong, but then tap on the correct word on your keyboard, keyboards now have the ability to delete and replace entire words (and not just characters). So because of this, some android keyboards don't actually send the absolute cursor / text-selection position anymore. Instead they send it relative to the last words you've selected. You can see other note taking apps and editors plagued by keyboard issues due to this exact phenomenon on Android here as well, mainly relating to newline characters. (while the newline is added, cursor isn't updated etc) : Microsoft OneNote, Workflowy, CKEditor, Quill, RichEditor for Android, etc... Since you mentioned that your issue happened -after- you selected / copy / pasted some text, I cannot eliminate the possibility that an android os flavor (or its selection handling, since it's different for each android version and os vendor) / keyboard / browser might also be the cause. I.e. in Android Firefox, there is a bug and you cannot select words inside rich text editors by double tapping on them like you can in any other browser. This bug has been around for -6 years- now. Affecting even Github on Firefox Android. We also chimed in and tried to keep it moving, and despite our best attempts, after 2 years, Mozilla just closed the issue without even fixing the bug. You can see relevant links here. So unfortunately, browsers and keyboards on Android can cause really strange issues, and we cannot anticipate all the weird and unexpected ways they might break. 3 ) Since you also mentioned copy/pasting stuff, often people experiences issues like this when they use things like clipboard syncing tools on Android (i.e. pushbullet, or on iOS iCloud's clipboard sync etc) Because you never know what was leftover in the clipboard at the time you copy pasted, and sometimes if the sync is delayed, these things may misbehave, and paste twice, or with a delay, or paste a blank return key unexpectedly etc. 4 ) This is the silliest but still likely scenario that I still have to mention. Sometimes, depending on the OS/Browser combo, when users copy paste text from Cryptee while it's in dark mode, paste it into another part of the document, then open the document in light mode, it causes text to have white color, and makes it look invisible, causing panic.
  • Looking for the best React Editor library
    6 projects | dev.to | 28 Jan 2023
    Quill.js is a rich text editor that provides a configurable editor with various features. Compared to Slate and TipTap, Quill is a drop-in solution that doesn't require building common text editing functionality from scratch.
  • What's rich text editor we should use nowadays ?
    2 projects | /r/webdev | 25 Jan 2023
    It seems though that the last release for Quill was in 2019: https://github.com/quilljs/quill/releases

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ace and quill you can also consider the following projects:

Draft.js - A React framework for building text editors.

Editor.js - A block-style editor with clean JSON output

Monaco Editor - A browser based code editor

CodeMirror - In-browser code editor (version 5, legacy)

slate - A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.)

tiptap - The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans.

TinyMCE - The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular

ProseMirror - The ProseMirror WYSIWYM editor

trix - A rich text editor for everyday writing

TOAST UI Editor - 🍞📝 Markdown WYSIWYG Editor. GFM Standard + Chart & UML Extensible.