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Top 23 TypeScript Rich Text Editor Projects
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slate
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.) (by ianstormtaylor)
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SurveyJS
Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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lexical
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
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TinyMCE
The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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BlockNote
A React Rich Text Editor that's block-based (Notion style) and extensible. Built on top of Prosemirror and Tiptap.
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blocksuite
🧩 Content editing tech stack for the web - BlockSuite is a toolkit for building editors and collaborative applications.
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element-tiptap
🌸A modern WYSIWYG rich-text editor using tiptap and Element UI for Vue3 (1.0 for Vue2)
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bangle-editor
Collection of higher level rich text editing tools. It powers the local only note taking app https://bangle.io
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
Ymmv, but I will never use Quill for a production project again.
We started using Quill 1.x around 2016, I initially liked it a lot. Jason proactively reached out to me when I first tweeted about considering Quill, and he was helpful when I had questions about the implementation.
Fast forward to 2019, we were running into some bugs, Quill 1.x was in maintenance mode, and 2.0 was effectively undocumented. I reached out to Jason on Twitter to get a sense for the timeline, and he basically told me to get lost. (Also his company Slab now blocks me on Twitter, though I imagine he just meant to block me from his personal account.)
Everyone has stressful days, especially when building a startup, so maybe that was just a bad time for me to reach out. My best guess is that they were focused on their own company (fair!) and barely had the time to maintain Quill for their own internal usage, let alone release it as open source. If that's the case, I wish they'd been upfront about it.
5 years later, Quill v2 is finally live. I'm glad to see Slab is still around, and I hope they have the bandwidth to publicly maintain Quill going forward. But if you're thinking about using this in production, I would push on what their commitment is to supporting it, and have a plan for if they stop responding.
(Jason, if you're on this thread, no hard feelings, water under the bridge. Feel free to ignore or chime in with your own perspective.)
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.
I remember using https://github.com/facebook/lexical for a project a year ago and mostly things worked our of the box.
Any reason to prefer quill?
TinyMCE provided a bit more information about this change in a GitHub discussion thread here: https://github.com/tinymce/tinymce/discussions/9496
As I posted there, this directly affects my open source project which is heavily tied to TinyMCE so I may end up forking, and reducing down to what my project needs to reduce maintenance scope & burden.
TinyMCE have been jumping around with their licensing. They were under LGPL, with some (what I believe were) misleading guidance into meeting the LGPL (they specified rules about keeping specific branding elements). They then jumped to MIT, and since moved some of the open plugins to their commercial offering. Now they're making this change.
UI libraries aside, the whole headless rave has spread to packages and libraries for standalone components, headless text editors like Tiptap and Platejs, headless table components like Tanstack table, and more out there to explore.
Project mention: Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-01We think the headless approach is a big factor in why Tiptap has become so popular, but you are right! You can't just add Tiptap to your project without styling. That's why we're always asked about a drop-in Notion-like styling. We don't offer this, but our community has built something that might help you: https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote
Project mention: BlockSuite is the open-source block-based editor | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-26
Project mention: Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing collaborative editors | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-01We have been using Tiptap in production for more than a year in Notesnook[0]. Glad to see it finally launching here on HN!
We have had quite a long and rough ride in search of a stable rich text editor. We began with Quill.js then migrated to TinyMCE and then finally settled on Prosemirror. Unfortunately, contenteditable is still absolutely horrible on web browsers, especially mobile ones.
Tiptap is a good choice if you are looking for a framework agnostic and thin abstraction over Prosemirror. However, if you are primarily working with React you should go with Remirror[1]. Tiptap's APIs are heavily inspired by Remirror (almost a duplicate in some places). Remirror takes the edge on the maturity and stability of the API and extensions. The sheer number of utilities offered by them to simplify Prosemirror's APIs is astounding.
In the end, though, its Prosemirror that's doing all the heavy lifting. And no matter how many abstractions you put on it, you will have to get really, really close in with Prosemirror's internals. Tiptap or Remirror do not make that any easier or harder aside from the initial bootstrapping.
I use https://xdsoft.net/jodit/
These reasons (and many others) are why I decided to create Vrite - an open-source developer content platform.
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Project mention: Which HTML editor offers the most advanced features for professional web developers? | /r/u_Educational-Ice6495 | 2023-05-10You can’t go wrong with VS Code and if you want a more advanced HTML editor, you can try Adobe Dreamweaver. And there’s editors such as Froala that are user-friendly, you can add plugins to it to have more advanced features.
Project mention: Open Source Notion-Like Editor with Yoopta-Editor: Exten and Customizable | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-10
I am working on a project where I only want to use one 3rd party source (Material UI) to reduce the the build size of my application. I did a bit of research and found this repo github link . It looks like it is a Material UI rich text editor for React apps and it doesn't look like it is still maintained. My question now is does anyone know if Material UI supports a Rich Text Editor? I should also say I tried CKEditor (free tier) but I ran into an issue on running `ng serve --configuration development` depends on '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-build-classic'. CommonJS or AMD dependencies can cause optimization bailouts.
TypeScript Rich Text Editor related posts
- Quill – Your powerful rich text editor
- TinyMCE (also) moving from MIT to GPL
- Quill: Open-source, powerful rich text editor in JavaScript
- What are headless UI libraries?
- TinyMCE 7 - Revision History, Document Converters, Markdown and more!
- TinyMCE Dumping MIT for GPL
- Wax: The Word Processor for the Web
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Rich Text Editor projects in TypeScript? This list will help you:
Project | Stars | |
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1 | quill | 39,539 |
2 | slate | 28,945 |
3 | tiptap | 23,630 |
4 | lexical | 17,225 |
5 | TinyMCE | 14,260 |
6 | milkdown | 8,290 |
7 | plate | 7,699 |
8 | BlockNote | 5,160 |
9 | react-ace | 3,955 |
10 | blocksuite | 3,688 |
11 | remirror | 2,600 |
12 | ngx-quill | 1,732 |
13 | react-contenteditable | 1,577 |
14 | jodit | 1,570 |
15 | react-simple-code-editor | 1,497 |
16 | vrite | 1,465 |
17 | element-tiptap | 1,226 |
18 | angular-froala-wysiwyg | 726 |
19 | stylo | 715 |
20 | verbum | 692 |
21 | bangle-editor | 615 |
22 | Yoopta-Editor | 452 |
23 | mui-rte | 430 |