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

• lite

  30 7,285 0.0 Lua

  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

  41 14,260 9.7 TypeScript

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

  

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  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

  18 7,106 0.0 C

  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

  81 23,734 9.6 TypeScript

  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

  3 517 0.0 C++

  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.

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  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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