Quill – Your powerful rich text editor

• quill

  61 41,293 9.5 TypeScript

  Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility.

  

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.)

* https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/2435

• lexical

  56 17,307 9.7 TypeScript

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

  

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?

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  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.

  

• prosemirror-cookbook

  2 301 3.2

  A series of examples for understanding ProseMirror

I spent weeks back in 2020 fighting with PM trying to customize behaviors such as bullet points etc. At the time the documentation was sparse and for me progress was extremely hard.

I ended up abandoning the project but wrote a short introduction here which might help you get started.

https://github.com/PierBover/prosemirror-cookbook

• trix

  32 18,692 7.4 JavaScript

  A rich text editor for everyday writing

  

Trix is simple and easy to use for basic writing like a blog. It’s what Basecamp and HEY both use (it was built by 37signals and is the default in Rails)

https://trix-editor.org/

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