Switching Rich Text Editors, Part 1: Picking Tiptap

1. gitlab

   1 461 - -

   This analysis that GitLab did was really valuable for helping me do my research on an editor architecture for my app. It almost reads like a blog post, it's an incredibly well-written issue. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/273238

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3. notabase

   2 11 827 7.7 TypeScript

   A second brain for your knowledge, thoughts, and ideas.

   

   When evaluating rich text editors for the note-taking app I started about a year ago (https://notabase.io), I ended up going with Slate because of its flexible schema and customizable plugin architecture.

   I sort of regret that choice now. I ran into a lot of bugs when integrating it which I had to manually work around; issues go months without being addressed; and there still isn't good cross-platform support, especially for Android. With a more active contributor base, Slate could be a fantastic library, but I get the feeling that it's in maintenance mode now, with not many major changes in the past year and a v1.0 still far in the future.

   Tiptap looks like it might be a good choice now, but I find it off-putting that I can't insert links in the demo editor on Tiptap's website (https://tiptap.dev), especially for my use case (a note-taking app whose core concept revolves around links).

4. spectrum

   3 23 10,699 0.8 JavaScript

   Discontinued Simple, powerful online communities.

   

   We were using Slate at Spectrum[0] back in 2017/2018, eventually switched to DraftJS due to cross-browser issues but that was honestly equally frustrating to use and support across many browsers.

   In hindsight, we should've just had a GitHub-style markdown editor: https://mxstbr.com/thoughts/tech-choice-regrets-at-spectrum

   It sounds like the situation has improved since then! I'll definitely try Tiptap if I ever need to build another RTE.

   [0]: https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum

5. TOAST UI Editor

   4 19 17,396 0.0 TypeScript

   🍞📝 Markdown WYSIWYG Editor. GFM Standard + Chart & UML Extensible.

   

   ToastUI (https://ui.toast.com/tui-editor), which builds on ProseMirror, was really easy to set up and has been very stable for us. It's a WYSIWYG editor that just renders markdown, which is what we wanted to have as the base representation for written content so we have some portability later depending on how our product evolves.

6. react-page

   5 11 9,492 1.8 TypeScript

   Next-gen, highly customizable content editor for the browser - based on React and written in TypeScript. WYSIWYG on steroids.

   

   I came across react-page[1] the other day, it seemed like a reasonably powerful block editor but was too much for our purpose so I haven't actually used it.

   [1]: https://github.com/react-page/react-page

7. slate

   6 28 30,489 8.4 TypeScript

   A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.) (by ianstormtaylor)

   

   Thanks for submission! Very timely. Been searching for a stable and flexible editor (or rather a tool to build such an editor) and Tiptap looks like a good candidate.

   I was also considering Slate, but have found this rather annoying bug https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate/issues/4833, which is surprising as it doesn't look like some rare edge case, and breaks something that seems to be like basic functionality for an editor. Had to re-consider.

8. quill

   7 69 44,907 8.3 TypeScript

   Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility

   

   I'm glad OP didn't end up recommending Quill, though their representation of that library seems way off. To help others avoid the state we're currently in, a PSA:

   https://github.com/quilljs/quill/issues/3359 ("Is quill dead?")

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10. stylo

    8 5 711 4.9 TypeScript

    Another kind of rich text editor

    

11. Draft.js

    9 40 22,309 8.2 JavaScript

    Discontinued A React framework for building text editors.

    

12. rich-markdown-editor

    10 11 2,570 9.2 TypeScript

    Discontinued The open source React and Prosemirror based markdown editor that powers Outline. Want to try it out? Create an account:

    

13. tiptap

    11 92 29,243 9.7 TypeScript

    The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans.

    

    When evaluating rich text editors for the note-taking app I started about a year ago (https://notabase.io), I ended up going with Slate because of its flexible schema and customizable plugin architecture.

    I sort of regret that choice now. I ran into a lot of bugs when integrating it which I had to manually work around; issues go months without being addressed; and there still isn't good cross-platform support, especially for Android. With a more active contributor base, Slate could be a fantastic library, but I get the feeling that it's in maintenance mode now, with not many major changes in the past year and a v1.0 still far in the future.

    Tiptap looks like it might be a good choice now, but I find it off-putting that I can't insert links in the demo editor on Tiptap's website (https://tiptap.dev), especially for my use case (a note-taking app whose core concept revolves around links).

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