Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

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  • lexical

    Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.

  • gutenberg

    The Block Editor project for WordPress and beyond. Plugin is available from the official repository.

  • 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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  • Editor.js

    A block-style editor with clean JSON output

  • Use Gutenberg or a block editor like this (https://github.com/codex-team/editor.js) for a CMS. The WYSIWYG days are over.

  • bloak

    Bloak is a markdown blog engine for Ruby on Rails

  • > I will buil[d] the project using ruby on rails

    Not an editor, but you might want to look at:

    "Modern Front-End Magic With Rails 7: A Visual Editor For Markdown (Part 1)" and part 2 (no part 3?):

    https://kuy.io/blog/posts/modern-front-end-magic-with-rails-...

    https://kuy.io/blog/posts/modern-front-end-magic-with-rails-...

    Or just use their rail engine for blogging:

    https://kuy.io/blog/posts/today-we-released-bloak-the-rails-...

    https://github.com/kuyio/bloak

  • trix

    A rich text editor for everyday writing

  • webstudio

    🖌 Webstudio Visual Builder

  • voxtir

    Collaborative transcription service that keeps getting better

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  • Summernote

    Super simple WYSIWYG editor

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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