Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor framework

• lexical

  56 17,307 9.7 TypeScript

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

  

Added an issue here: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/issues/1699

And, as a side note, great work on this project. I had previously built a wysiwyg system from Slate and a custom plugin system; Lexical seems like a solid progression and has some interesting ideas like using React components the way it does to facilitate editor plugins. May have to try creating a Preact wrapper so I can use it in my projects.

• Draft.js

  40 22,309 8.2 JavaScript

  Discontinued A React framework for building text editors.

  

>Sure, but indicate that it's an alpha product

Do you mean something like the banner on the README?

https://github.com/facebook/lexical

>They don't even have the decency to label it is such

Do you mean something like the big banner on the README?

https://github.com/facebook/draft-js

• SurveyJS

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  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.

  

• Monaco Editor

  113 38,268 8.4 JavaScript

  A browser based code editor

  

The examples shown on the site are code editing. Which puts it in direct competition with the more established Monaco from Microsoft [1].

Competition is welcome, but the description sounds like this is more of a library than a finished product (which Monaco isn't), and if so, some examples showing how to take advantage of that would have been helpful.

[1] https://microsoft.github.io/monaco-editor/

• briskine

  1 103 7.3 JavaScript

  Write faster with templates and keyboard shortcuts.

  

I work on a text expander browser extension and supporting Draft is a pain[1].

Are there any plans to make inserting text from the "outside" easier on Lexical? Maybe exposing the Lexical instance on the dom node (like CKEditor does)? Right now we're using `execCommand` to support Lexical.

[1] https://github.com/Briskine/briskine/blob/master/src/content...

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