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Show HN: Edtr.io – Intuitive web editor, open source and fully adaptable

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Post by SplishCrew » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 5:11 PM UTC

Show HN: Edtr.io – Intuitive web editor, open source and fully adaptable
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Post by iforgotmypass » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 7:29 PM UTC

I was thinking of building something similar. Any other alternatives to similar solutions?

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Post by jsf01 » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 7:47 PM UTC

So this is built on Slate—what does it bring to the table that you can’t do with Slate out of the box?

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Post by andybak » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 7:51 PM UTC

Layouts seem broken. Dialogs that are mostly empty space and icons that overlap borders.

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Post by inyono » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 7:55 PM UTC

jsf01 wrote: post #3

So this is built on Slate—what does it bring to the table that you can’t do with Slate out of the box?

Core contributor of Edtr.io here:

Slate works well for editing text. Anything with a more complicated layout / UX gets really messy though, since with Slate, you always have to deal with the DOM / Slate's wrapper around contenteditable. And at least before Slate 0.50+, we (& the developers of Schul-Cloud independently of us) ran always in bugs, etc. This is why Edtr.io (similarly to ReactPages, fka ORY Editor) builds it own state management & layouting outside of Slate. And let Slate do what they do best, editing rich-text.

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Post by curo » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 8:13 PM UTC

iforgotmypass wrote: post #2

I was thinking of building something similar. Any other alternatives to similar solutions?

Prosemirror seems to be one of the most pluggable block editors out there. For the vue.js community, tiptap is built on prosemirror. Slate (which this is built on) is good too.

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Post by tetrisgm » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 8:15 PM UTC

This is really nice. One note: the landing page doesn’t mention the MIT license or commercial use. I had to go to the repo to figure it out.

Would love to look into integrating this editor in our email client. Is there an easy way for us to chat?

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Post by elliotec » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 8:15 PM UTC

andybak wrote: post #4

Layouts seem broken. Dialogs that are mostly empty space and icons that overlap borders.

This was all I noticed... not a great look. Hope they fix it because it could be cool.

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Post by joking » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 8:15 PM UTC

iforgotmypass wrote: post #2

I was thinking of building something similar. Any other alternatives to similar solutions?

Gutenberg, it can be decoupled from Wordpress. But you can start searching for tinymce alternatives and you will found hundreds

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Post by inyono » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 8:19 PM UTC

tetrisgm wrote: post #7

This is really nice. One note: the landing page doesn’t mention the MIT license or commercial use. I had to go to the repo to figure it out. Would love to look into integrating this editor in our email client. Is there an easy way for us to chat?

Yes, landing page only mentions Open Source, maybe we should clarify that.

You can reach us at edtr-io@splish.dev