quill VS Highlight.js

Compare quill vs Highlight.js and see what are their differences.

quill

Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility. (by quilljs)
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quill Highlight.js
61 83
41,021 23,051
6.3% 0.8%
9.5 8.7
1 day ago 2 days ago
TypeScript JavaScript
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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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?

Highlight.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of Highlight.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-08.
  • Vala Programming Language
    14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2024
    > it was designed to resemble C#

    I actually first heard of Vala just a few days ago when I was looking at a C#-related PR[1] for highlight.js:

    > This fails the tests as the Vala default.txt is recognized now as C#. However, Vala is very close in syntax to C#, and the default.txt also seems to be valid C# so not sure what to do about this.

    [1] https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/pull/3906

  • Dev.to and GitHub usage pl Syntax Highlighter
    1 project | dev.to | 17 Mar 2024
    About GitHub Source - https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js/issues/1224
  • Code Syntax highlighting in Next Js
    1 project | dev.to | 15 Jan 2024
    Let's get started by installing the highlight js
  • Build a simple code editor
    2 projects | dev.to | 25 Dec 2023
    Luckily, implementing syntax highlighting in our simple code editor is easy with the use of external libraries. There are several JavaScript libraries available, such as Prism and Highlight.js. For our editor, we'll use Prism since it's easy to use and supports a wide range of programming languages.
  • We're Not a CDN – Highlight.js
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 18 Dec 2023
    They do actually document the recommended path in their GitHub docs: https://github.com/highlightjs/highlight.js#GettingTheLibrar...
  • Show HN: A template for Markdown-based sites (no static site generator required)
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Dec 2023
    The templates grabs Markdown file data with XMLHttpRequest and converts it to HTML with https://showdownjs.com/ . Classless styles are done with https://picocss.com/ and code block syntax highlighting is done with https://highlightjs.org/ .

    GitHub repo: https://github.com/dandalpiaz/markdown-pages

  • Is copying from open source projects stealing?
    3 projects | dev.to | 31 Oct 2023
    My search for a third-party syntax highlighter brought me to highlight.js. ctil converts text (.txt) and Markdown (.md) to generated HTML (.html) files, so I want the generated HTML files to support syntax highlighting. highlight.js can be used as HTML Tags by using a Content Delivery Network, CDN, so I was able to add highlight.js by adding the following lines to the generated HTML files:
  • building a basic markdown editor: unified, trees and data
    2 projects | dev.to | 2 Oct 2023
    The real magic is what happens once you generate the syntax trees; at that point, you can modify them with the existing plugins (or make you own, if you really want to). For instance, I use a plugin to add specific css classes to certain elements so they integrate better with the visual design of the website another to add code highlighting with highlight.js and some others for generating a js object from the frontmatter of a Markdown file and to add support for Github flavored Markdown. I could do a lot more with these, like add support for videos, embeds and more, but for now this is enough for a simple preview.
  • HTML5 - Text markup elements
    1 project | dev.to | 14 Sep 2023
    pre is for a block of preformatted text, so spaces are preserved, and the font can be monospaced. Another element is code for programming codes. Notice that code doesn't offer code highlighting; for this, use JavaScript + CSS code, like Highlight.js.
  • Scraping Google Maps
    2 projects | /r/node | 11 Jun 2023

What are some alternatives?

When comparing quill and Highlight.js you can also consider the following projects:

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

PrismJS - Lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting.

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

Rouge - A pure Ruby code highlighter that is compatible with Pygments

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

Pygments

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

Javascript Left-Right Parser - Parser for JavaScript

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

ProseMirror - The ProseMirror WYSIWYM editor

kotlin-latex-listing - A syntax highlighting template for the Kotlin language in LaTeX listings.