Monaco Editor VS rich-markdown-editor

Compare Monaco Editor vs rich-markdown-editor and see what are their differences.

rich-markdown-editor

The open source React and Prosemirror based markdown editor that powers Outline. Want to try it out? Create an account: (by outline)
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Monaco Editor rich-markdown-editor
113 11
37,955 2,570
1.9% -
8.4 9.2
1 day ago about 2 years ago
JavaScript TypeScript
MIT License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Monaco Editor

Posts with mentions or reviews of Monaco Editor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-21.

rich-markdown-editor

Posts with mentions or reviews of rich-markdown-editor. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-11.
  • Switching Rich Text Editors, Part 1: Picking Tiptap
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2022
    Great article and fantastic choice!

    This is a topic I have been very interested lately. I had been lucky to start using since Slate 0.61.x, but I cannot say anything good about it. It has a major problem with managing large documents [0]. I tried to introduce multiple improvements of performance, but it is very ungrateful project – change in one place affects many things at the same time. I am shocked, how many projects are still using it. For example, open-sourced Notabase [1]. My 4+ weeks with Slate.js completely killed motivation, and I was only thinking to put a whole project to litter.

    In the result of being unhappy, I switched to Draft.js. It was 2020, and I was eager to try it out, so I did. Sadly, in 2020 there was also the last release [2]. Initially, I didn't like how it works. I preferred the Slate data model. Also, the draft.js project felt not maintained at that time (by looking at commits activity, issues and pull-requests). It is written in the Flow which I detest. I spent few weeks to try "merge" the draft.js and sentry with doing a "rewrite" to TypeScript. Obviously, quickly I realized myself it is stupid idea.

    Then, I took a look at ReMirror. Yet another problem that was struggling with maintenance and active contributors. It is based on ProseMirror, so I thought it is better choice than previous. ReMirror is overly complex for simple things. It was hard to find any help - neither by googling examples nor via ReMirror's Discord (it was dead silence there).

    After that, I have found information about the TipTap. Back then, there was only provided support for Vue.js. Fortunately, it was that time, when they have promised the v2 with React support. I skipped it to wait for the new version.

    Maybe, a raw ProseMirror with React? Yep, tried it, but I wasn't very happy of the result. I knew the TipTap v2 will be released and there were already existing projects that were using ProseMirror behind the scene, for example: Outline's rich-markdown-editor[3]. It has tons of built-in components that I had with Slate. I was extremely happy about it, because "everything what I needed" was there – typical bold, italic, code, code block, quote, multi-level list and even table editing. Really awesome piece of code! However, authors decided they are opting for TipTap and they have archived repository on GitHub, which means officially the project is dead.

    I had no time to test Quill.js. It looked interesting, but it has noticeable poor development pace, and it looks a dead project with many bugs.

    Currently, I am using the TipTap v2 and I can't say how happy I am now. I guess I will stick with it for longer. However, I know the journey to find the best Rich Text Editor has not ended. There are more alternatives, for example Stylo [4] that I've found in this week.

    [0] Try to copy the contents of https://www.slatejs.org/examples/huge-document and paste it back. In a result, my Firefox on Macbook M1 hangs.

    [1]: https://notabase.io/

    [2]: https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/releases/tag/v0.11.7

    [3]: https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor

    [4]: https://stylojs.com/

  • I moved this blog from Medium
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Jan 2022
  • Appflowy – open-source Notion Alternative
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Nov 2021
    Outline's rich-markdown-editor (https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor) package is pretty nice. I have used it to make some custom MD editor/CMS experiment.
  • I built a new platform, using NextJS, for creating a blog & newsletter (and earning money from your readers). I focused on speed, simplicity, privacy, and beautiful design. I'd love to get some early feedback!
    2 projects | /r/nextjs | 23 Oct 2021
    Good eye! This is indeed based on ProseMirror. I didn't create it myself though, I'm using this: https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor
  • Ask HN: Open-source notion.so like block editor?
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 Aug 2021
  • I made a simple Markdown editor and publisher that stores files on web3.storage!
    2 projects | /r/ipfs | 9 Aug 2021
    Ah yes, I found the library I was using for the editor (rich-markdown-editor) to insert a lot of \ newlines when they weren't needed. I'll take a look at this sometime!
  • Notea - Self-hosted note-taking app stored on S3 | AKA a self-hosted Notion alternative
    9 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Apr 2021
    The outline editor is open source https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor
  • What is your tech stack?
    2 projects | /r/SaaS | 18 Mar 2021
    It runs a mult-tenant SaaS app with very low memory/cpu requirements (https://getoutline.com/)
  • CodeMirror 6
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Feb 2021
    I had a similar experience starting out with ProseMirror; I wanted to make something similar to the editors in Dropbox Paper and Notion, and found an out-of-the-box rich text editor called tiptap built onto of it.

    They already had nodes for images and embeds [1, 2] which made development easy (I would recommend checking out the source code; its about a hundred lines of code for each, and simple). But as I made more custom nodes, I learned pretty well the internals of tiptap and how it used ProseMirror. And over time, I've come to appreciate knowing its api.

    So if there's any advice for people trying to get started with ProseMirror, I would say to look at libraries which built upon it as example code such as tiptap or the outline rich-markdown-editor [3].

    [1] https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap/blob/main/packages/tipt...

    [2] https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap/blob/main/examples/Comp...

    [3] https://github.com/outline/rich-markdown-editor

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Monaco Editor and rich-markdown-editor you can also consider the following projects:

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

ace - Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor)

quill - Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility.

flutter-quill - Rich text editor for Flutter

ProseMirror - The ProseMirror WYSIWYM editor

tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.

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

vuetify - 🐉 Vue Component Framework

React PDF viewer - A React component to view a PDF document

AppFlowy - AppFlowy is an open-source alternative to Notion. You are in charge of your data and customizations. Built with Flutter and Rust.

Quasar Framework - Quasar Framework - Build high-performance VueJS user interfaces in record time

php-parser - :herb: NodeJS PHP Parser - extract AST or tokens