Ask HN: How to learn about text editor architectures and implementations?

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  • lite

    A lightweight text editor written in Lua

    Lately I've been studying lite editor which is mostly Lua code. It's quite easy to read the code and follow along.

        https://github.com/rxi/lite

  • TinyMCE

    The world's #1 JavaScript library for rich text editing. Available for React, Vue and Angular

  • 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.

  • kilo

    A text editor in less than 1000 LOC with syntax highlight and search.

    You could start by looking at something super simple like Kilo:

    https://github.com/antirez/kilo

    Even I could understand this one pretty well and that's no small matter.

  • tiptap

    The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans.

    https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/prosemirror.html

    They have a well architected model, including plugins to extend functionality, see https://tiptap.dev/ which is built ontop of Prosemirror

    bonus: The author talks about collaborative editing here: https://marijnhaverbeke.nl/blog/collaborative-editing.html

  • ewig

    The eternal text editor — Didactic Ersatz Emacs to show immutable data-structures and the single-atom architecture

    Ewig is an interesting implementation using immutable data structures. https://github.com/arximboldi/ewig Very proof of concept, tries to be a little vi like. Might be worth checking out.

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