pen vs medium-editor

pen

enjoy live editing (+markdown) (by sofish)

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sofish.github.io

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medium-editor

Medium.com WYSIWYG editor clone. Uses contenteditable API to implement a rich text solution. (by yabwe)

Editors medium-editor Contenteditable Editor JavaScript Rich Text Editor Wysiwyg

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yabwe.github.io

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pen		medium-editor
	Project
-	Mentions	7
4,784	Stars	15,983
-	Growth	0.2%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 5 years ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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pen

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

medium-editor

Posts with mentions or reviews of medium-editor. 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

The MediumEditor clone looks great, but I wanted a traditional toolbar and the last commit it seems was 3+ years ago.
Good Markdown Editor for SvelteKit?
7 projects | /r/sveltejs | 3 Apr 2023

MediumEditor
Creating a Medium-like text highlighter to report typo
5 projects | dev.to | 20 Nov 2022

medium-editor (a clone of medium.com inline editor toolbar): a bit too much as we just want the highlight/select feature
"Floating" WYSIWYG editor?
1 project | /r/webdev | 9 Sep 2021
Can anyone recommend a library to allow users to make changes such as font size color etc
1 project | /r/webdev | 15 Aug 2021

Here is a good one https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor
6 steps to create a Chrome Extension using Angular
2 projects | dev.to | 4 Jun 2021

Writing a text editor from scratch is Pain in the A (Please don’t ask what is A 😉). So instead of writing the text editor, I’m using already available ones **Medium-editor**.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pen and medium-editor you can also consider the following projects:

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

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

buefy - Lightweight UI components for Vue.js based on Bulma

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

Trumbowyg - A lightweight and amazing WYSIWYG JavaScript editor under 10kB

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

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

SimpleMDE - A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking.

Froala Editor - The next generation Javascript WYSIWYG HTML Editor.

ace - Ace (Ajax.org Cloud9 Editor)

ContentTools - A JS library for building WYSIWYG editors for HTML content.