Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

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  1. lexical

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

  2. Civic Auth

    Auth in Less Than 5 Minutes. Civic Auth comes with multiple SSO options, optional embedded wallets, and user management — all implemented with just a few lines of code. Start building today.

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  3. gutenberg

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

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. trix

    A rich text editor for everyday writing

  7. webstudio

    Open source website builder and Webflow alternative. Webstudio is an advanced visual builder that connects to any headless CMS, supports all CSS properties, and can be hosted anywhere, including with us.

  8. voxtir

    Collaborative transcription service that keeps getting better

  9. CodeRabbit

    CodeRabbit: AI Code Reviews for Developers. Revolutionize your code reviews with AI. CodeRabbit offers PR summaries, code walkthroughs, 1-click suggestions, and AST-based analysis. Boost productivity and code quality across all major languages with each PR.

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  10. 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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