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thisisjedr

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About thisisjedr

Engineer, founder, I ship code fast. https://j.blaszyk.me/

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    Comment #48532731

    I'm working on https://docx-editor.dev/ , open-source, .docx editor library for building document apps.

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    Comment #48236014

    Thanks for reporting! We do have perf tests for editing docs over 50 pages, but something in the demo doc must indeed be slowing edits down, this is not expected behaviour. Filed a…

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    Comment #48234330

    Noted, and thanks for the feedback! It's on our roadmap to better support mobile experience

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    Comment #48232499

    Happy to hear that! :) The repo has actually been public for ~3 months, but we only launched the project homepage https://www.docx-editor.dev recently, so search engines are still …

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    Comment #48232470

    Thank you!

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    Comment #48232469

    Thanks! The hard here part is not typescript implementation but it's catching Word undocumented quirks. The OOXML spec gets you far but doesn't cover 100% of how Word renders thing…

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    Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps

    We are working on an open-source .docx editor library for apps that need to edit Word documents in the browser. We just shipped 1.0. A lot of existing approaches convert .docx into…

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    Comment #48093449

    I'm working on https://docx-editor.dev/ , the open-source, mit licensed word editor library. We are building this because we such library it in our core business, and a lot of othe…

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    Comment #46971171

    Thank you!

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    Comment #46970189

    https://ghuntley.com/loop/

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    Comment #46969987

    Yes, it's like Google Docs for .docx files. It's open-source, MIT-licensed, and runs fully in JS, so you can embed it in your app. Every other JS DOCX editor I found was either aba…

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    Comment #46969710

    We don’t have a formal '% compatibility' metric yet, but it’s on our radar as a feedback loop mechanism for self-improvement. For now, we mostly rely on testing with our own and cu…

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    Comment #46968748

    Fair point, we know the editor isn't yet 1:1 with Word. When you built yours, was Word your source of truth (reverse-engineering sense), or did you stick to MS-OE376? And any recom…

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    Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor

    We needed a JS-first WYSIWYG DOCX editor and couldn't find a solid OSS option, most were either commercial or abandoned. As an experiment, we gave Claude Code the OOXML spec, a con…