visual-editor VS tiptap

A few words about Visual Editor. This editor is built around the powerful Quilljs Delta document format originally developed by QuillJs. Delta documents can be easily converted to JSON, the encoding is easy to read and modify and offers many extensibility options.

There's a fork of flutter_quill called visual-editor. It switches to the next widget in the focus sequence, which is one way to properly handle the key.

Flutter also isn't great for text editors, but there are a few implementations like visual-editor for formatted text that's acceptable. Also, the xterm package is pretty amazing from its capabilities (even runs full vim!).

There's visual-editor, but that one has a different focus than a programming editor.

Two months ago I decided to fork the Quill rich text editor because the architecture is extremely difficult to follow. Since I desperately need for my own project, a strong rich text editor that can be easily extended with more features I took the decision to byte the bullet and refactor Quill from the ground up. There are numerous extremely good features in Quill yet the overall architecture was a total train wreck. In this article I'll be explaining in detail what were the issues and how I attempted to improve them. You can find the source code at Visual Editor Github. I've documented the entire process and I'll be releasing deep dive Flutter architecture episodes at Visual Coding YouTube. Enough shameless plugs, let's get going.

You are right, we have programmed the app with Flutter and are very happy with the framework. Two years ago, when we started, many libraries were still missing in the community, especially the text editors were problematic. That's why I contributed a lot to the community to improve the status. At the moment I am very excited about the libraries SuperEditor and VisualEditor. Otherwise, the tooling with Flutter is excellent and it's a lot of fun to program with it. We programmed the server with NestJS, use a PostgreSQL database and GraphQL as the query language.

Visual Editor Gihub Repo - Freshly forked, already many changes, to be published in pub dev.

The Editor: The core of our app is the editor. We need an easy to use and robust rich text editor, that supports all of the features we want such as: headings, lists, placeholders, markdown, color, images, bold italic etc… For this we will use @10play/tentap-editor which is a rich text editor for react native based on Tiptap.

If you want bell and whistles - https://tiptap.dev/

A WYSIWYG rich-text editor using tiptap2 and Element Plus for Vue3

You can build a Notion-like editor on top of https://tiptap.dev :-) Here is a demo of what such an editor might look like: https://demos.tiptap.dev/

Since Tiptap is headless, you have the freedom to design and develop the UI exactly the way you want.

The first link shows a discussion that started in July 2020, when Tiptap was only available in version 1. The new major version 2, which is a complete rewrite, was in development. The biggest drawback the GitLab engineers had was the lack of a test suite in Tiptap 1. That's understandable, because as a key component of your application, testing is necessary to ensure that you catch breakable changes. Tiptap 2 does just that. [1]

[1] https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap/tree/develop/tests

No good tool is built without using good tools, and Vrite Editor is no different. Before getting into WYSIWYG editors, I extensively researched available RTE frameworks, that could provide the tooling and functionality I was looking for. Ultimately, I picked TipTap and underlying ProseMirror — IMO, the best tools currently available for all kinds of WYSIWYG editors.

Nodejs has hocuspocus (built on prosemirror) (https://www.npmjs.com/package/@hocuspocus/server) using tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/), are there any similar alternative backends in Go?

Check this headless editor framework https://tiptap.dev/

If you're in need of a solid editor library for your next project, be sure to check out Tiptap. It's an open-source project, and we always appreciate feedback and contributions!

The buttons had to be absolutely positioned, which required both a custom TipTap extension and tapping deeper into the underlying ProseMirror (both libraries powering the Vrite editor).