quill VS BookStack

Compare quill vs BookStack and see what are their differences.

quill

Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility. (by quilljs)

BookStack

A platform to create documentation/wiki content built with PHP & Laravel (by BookStackApp)
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quill BookStack
61 312
41,021 13,833
6.3% 2.3%
9.5 9.6
1 day ago about 21 hours ago
TypeScript PHP
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License MIT
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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 2024-04-22.
  • FLaNK AI-April 22, 2024
    28 projects | dev.to | 22 Apr 2024
  • Quill – Your powerful rich text editor
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
    Ontop of that this [issue](https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/3806) exists - which forces us to upgrade once primeNg lets us. Anyone knows a good alternative? I am done with quill and would love to use something more stable.
  • Quill: Open-source, powerful rich text editor in JavaScript
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Mar 2024
  • 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.
  • I need help with creating simple text editor
    1 project | /r/Angular2 | 4 Apr 2023
    NgPrime has this editor if you’re using it already for components. Or Quil could work
  • Good Markdown Editor for SvelteKit?
    7 projects | /r/sveltejs | 3 Apr 2023
    Quill
  • Recommendations For A Better Blog UI
    1 project | /r/flask | 24 Mar 2023
    The few I have seen out there are flask-blogging, tiny-blog, and maybe quill?

BookStack

Posts with mentions or reviews of BookStack. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-22.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

Wiki.js - Wiki.js | A modern and powerful wiki app built on Node.js

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

Outline - The fastest knowledge base for growing teams. Beautiful, realtime collaborative, feature packed, and markdown compatible.

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

gitbook - The open source frontend for GitBook doc sites

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

Dokuwiki - The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine

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

Documize - Modern Confluence alternative designed for internal & external docs, built with Go + EmberJS

ProseMirror - The ProseMirror WYSIWYM editor

Mediawiki - 🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.