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Top 23 JavaScript Editor Projects
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Yes, in the Monaco editor (https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/).
It's not just typechecking, the typescript library is also the reference parser for TypeScript and reference emit. Emitting TypeScript is non-trivial and non-local.
It's not just in browsers, you might want to run the typescript library on the edge or in some restricted environment where JS/WASM is OK but native code is not.
You may want to use the typescript language as a dependency. TypeScript becoming non-pure JS means that your library also becomes non-pure JS.
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Project mention: Linux Applications Programming by Example: The Fundamental APIs (2nd Edition) | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-03-20
Linux is rarely a porting issue for C++ or python: https://wxwidgets.org/
Static linking libraries for MacOS or Windows is contaminated by GPL/LGPL code, and this why wxwidgets excludes the disclosure requirement.
Also, if you are looking for a VueJS cross-platform GUI framework for most Desktop and Mobile platforms (MacOS hardware and developer account is a requirement):
https://github.com/quasarframework/quasar
Qt5/Qt6 frameworks sooner or later cause more problems than they solve, and require a lot more maintenance/support.
Best of luck =3
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It’s actually the opposite, WYSIWYG is better than ever. You just have to seek out the tooling because WYSIWYG isn’t something that everyone benefits from.
HyperCard was cool but it had big limitations that made its demise inevitable. It was most useful for prototyping because of those limitations. Its inability to use files over a network is a big limiter. Basically everything HyperCard could do is something the web can do better (or a modern ease of use focused game engine, depending on how multimedia-oriented your project is).
If you were developing Myst today you could easily develop it using a no-code web development system to do so, or use a no-code game development tool like Game Maker.
In terms of leveraging information in a database and visualizing it, nothing from the era can hold a candle to stuff like Airtable and its open source clones.
Another example, Microsoft FrontPage was definitely not as good as trix and the editors that came after: https://trix-editor.org/
WordPress + the wildly massive plugin ecosystem it has is basically a no-code web application platform in itself.
The user experience for commercial WYSIWYG like SquareSpace and Wix is wildly better than anything from the 90s.
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medium-editor
Medium.com WYSIWYG editor clone. Uses contenteditable API to implement a rich text solution.
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AppSignal
Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
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ckeditor5
Powerful rich text editor framework with a modular architecture, modern integrations, and features like collaborative editing.
Open Froala, TinyMCE, CKEditor 5, or Quill and it isn't there. Not hidden in a menu — it doesn't exist. The CKEditor 5 feature request has been open since September 2020.
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SimpleMDE
A simple, beautiful, and embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor. Delightful editing for beginners and experts alike. Features built-in autosaving and spell checking.
Project mention: MarkdownEditor alternatives - SimpleMDE, overtype, and TinyMCE | libhunt.com/r/markdown-text-editor | 2026-07-19 -
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EpicEditor
EpicEditor is an embeddable JavaScript Markdown editor with split fullscreen editing, live previewing, automatic draft saving, offline support, and more. For developers, it offers a robust API, can be easily themed, and allows you to swap out the bundled Markdown parser with anything you throw at it.
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gea
A batteries-included, reactive JavaScript UI framework. No virtual DOM. Compile-time JSX transforms. Proxy-based stores. Surgical DOM patching.
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The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Editor projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | Monaco Editor | 46,514 |
| 2 | Quasar Framework | 27,204 |
| 3 | ace | 27,144 |
| 4 | trix | 19,988 |
| 5 | medium-editor | 16,106 |
| 6 | jsoneditor | 12,264 |
| 7 | Summernote | 11,832 |
| 8 | ckeditor5 | 10,464 |
| 9 | SimpleMDE | 10,151 |
| 10 | pen | 4,798 |
| 11 | EpicEditor | 4,215 |
| 12 | Trumbowyg | 4,152 |
| 13 | bootstrap-wysihtml5 | 4,116 |
| 14 | ContentTools | 3,977 |
| 15 | editor | 2,796 |
| 16 | jquery-notebook | 1,680 |
| 17 | Haroopad | 1,676 |
| 18 | Mobiledoc Kit | 1,563 |
| 19 | gea | 1,230 |
| 20 | sysend | 1,162 |
| 21 | popline | 1,055 |
| 22 | atom | 780 |
| 23 | php-parser | 563 |
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