trix

A rich text editor for everyday writing (by basecamp)

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Posts with mentions or reviews of trix. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-10-13.
  • NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2025
    It’s actually the opposite, WYSIWYG is better than ever. You just have to seek out the tooling because WYSIWYG isn’t something that everyone benefits from.

    HyperCard was cool but it had big limitations that made its demise inevitable. It was most useful for prototyping because of those limitations. Its inability to use files over a network is a big limiter. Basically everything HyperCard could do is something the web can do better (or a modern ease of use focused game engine, depending on how multimedia-oriented your project is).

    If you were developing Myst today you could easily develop it using a no-code web development system to do so, or use a no-code game development tool like Game Maker.

    In terms of leveraging information in a database and visualizing it, nothing from the era can hold a candle to stuff like Airtable and its open source clones.

    Another example, Microsoft FrontPage was definitely not as good as trix and the editors that came after: https://trix-editor.org/

    WordPress + the wildly massive plugin ecosystem it has is basically a no-code web application platform in itself.

    The user experience for commercial WYSIWYG like SquareSpace and Wix is wildly better than anything from the 90s.

  • Melhores editores HTML para usar em aplicações JavaScript em 2025
    1 project | dev.to | 12 Dec 2024
    Desenvolvido pelo time do Basecamp, o Trix é um editor WYSIWYG focado na simplicidade e produtividade.
  • Word-like HTML inline edit with design mode
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2024
    I love how Trix [0] and (I think) ProseMirror [1] work in that regard: it does use contenteditable, but every edit you make is applied to an internal model instead, then the editor state is updated back from the model.

    [0]: https://trix-editor.org/

    [1]: https://prosemirror.net/

  • Testing ViewComponent w/ Capybara
    1 project | dev.to | 20 Aug 2024
    💡 If you're using the Trix editor, I also show you how to test your view components with a nice helper inspired by Will Olson's article Testing the Trix Editor with Capybara and MiniTest.
  • Quill – Your powerful rich text editor
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2024
    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/

  • WYSIWYG editor for a new Rails project
    6 projects | /r/rails | 10 Dec 2023
    Trix was the winner. It was easy to style, is well maintained, has documentation for embedding it into a form, is easy to create custom keyboard shortcuts for, has great examples on how to save/load content or modify it with javascript.
  • Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Oct 2023
  • How to use Cloudflare R2 with Ruby on Rails Active Storage
    2 projects | dev.to | 26 Jun 2023
    In some case, you may need to allow the user to upload the file in the text editor like Trix editor. However, you current configuration not allowed it, you need to configure the CORS. Here the configuration
  • Formatting tags in reviews
    1 project | /r/TheStoryGraph | 22 Jun 2023
    I inspected the text editor and it looks like it's something called Trix. The example on their website has a hyperlink button. No idea how to add links in StoryGraph though, besides the workaround the other user mentioned. Maybe ask Nadia on Instagram or Twitter - she's super responsive!
  • Managers want to build a Web Rich Text Editor from scratch - Seems like bad idea
    2 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 20 Mar 2023
    I'm sure something like Trix (used in Ruby on Rails) would probably do the job - https://trix-editor.org/
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