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Top 23 JavaScript Rich Text Editor Projects
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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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Project mention: Show HN: OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-17
This is a really good project, kudos!
What I am wondering is if I can modify the project enough so that lets say when I do # test, then it can automatically modify it to be enlarged instead of just colored/ basically i think that this is how reddit comments work..
Image support would be really preferred too, but honestly, this is seriously so cool that I can iamgine using this right now, but someone here mentioned spell/pell https://github.com/sylvainpolletvillard/spell and https://github.com/jaredreich/pell and so they are in the size of 1kb-2kb, even bytes and this is 40kb iirc, so why is there such a big size difference and how are those guys being so small.
Once again, amazing project, my mind is truly blown by how simple it is, I will try to integrate this or spell or just anything whenever I can!
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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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react-draft-wysiwyg
A Wysiwyg editor build on top of ReactJS and DraftJS. https://jpuri.github.io/react-draft-wysiwyg
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megadraft
Megadraft is a Rich Text editor built on top of Facebook's Draft.JS featuring a nice default base of components and extensibility
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My First Attempt The first repo that I've worked on is a Notepad web app by Amit Merchant. It's an offline capable Notepad Progressive Web App, which could also be accessed via this link, written in mostly JavaScript. I found that the repo was properly maintained, so I tried out the app via the link. While I was exploring different functions of the app, I found the title case conversion function in the Case Converter, which is something that I need, even when writing this blog! I then started testing the function, and looked into the files to understand the structure and the codes, and suggested some improvement on the codes in this issue and made a pull request.
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warewoolf
A minimalist novel-writing system/rich text editor designed to be usable without a mouse. For desktop and standalone word processors/digital typewriters/writerDecks.
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studio
Adiptal Studio is an iframe based self-host headless page builder to integrate in any cms/framework. It's feature-rich design and gives clean output to design responsive pages. (by adiptal)
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NOTE:
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 Rich Text Editor projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | trix | 19,994 |
| 2 | medium-editor | 16,106 |
| 3 | pell | 12,050 |
| 4 | ckeditor5 | 10,476 |
| 5 | react-quill | 7,015 |
| 6 | react-draft-wysiwyg | 6,475 |
| 7 | Trumbowyg | 4,152 |
| 8 | suneditor | 2,003 |
| 9 | jodit | 1,946 |
| 10 | react-codemirror | 1,555 |
| 11 | alloyeditor | 1,408 |
| 12 | megadraft | 1,223 |
| 13 | django-markdown-editor | 896 |
| 14 | ritzy | 892 |
| 15 | text | 653 |
| 16 | react-medium-editor | 506 |
| 17 | notepad | 372 |
| 18 | czi-prosemirror | 343 |
| 19 | warewoolf | 336 |
| 20 | react-trumbowyg | 147 |
| 21 | studio | 93 |
| 22 | french-press-editor | 75 |
| 23 | react-trix-rte | 73 |
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