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

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Post by thisisjedr »

radial_symmetry wrote: post #3

Holy shit, this is exactly what I needed for a major client. The track changes specifically, and being able to do it from Typescript. You have no idea how happy you just made me. Edit: Did you just make this repo public? Last week I was scouring the internet for something like this and couldn't find it.

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 catching up.

> I was scouring the internet for something like this and couldn't find it.

Interested to hear how can we make it more discoverable? What keywords were you searching for ?

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

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Post by unD »

Hi! I was looking at `@eigenpal/docx-editor-agents`—would that be a viable option for fetching the content of Word docs in agentic workflows? I'm currently using Pandoc to extract an MD version, but I'm not sure how true to the actual document that is (e.g., with comments). Thanks!

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

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Post by thisisjedr »

unD wrote: post #14

Hi! I was looking at `@eigenpal/docx-editor-agents`—would that be a viable option for fetching the content of Word docs in agentic workflows? I'm currently using Pandoc to extract an MD version, but I'm not sure how true to the actual document that is (e.g., with comments). Thanks!

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

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Post by aejm »

A really solid looking editor! Just a heads up on small, mobile screen sizes: the UI elements of the top row overlap unusably, the rest of the UI seems usable just quite zoomed in and I really had to pan around a lot to do anything. Fundamentally a solid and usable UI, I’d recommend a little more polish on smaller screen sizes. Good work!

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

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Post by thisisjedr »

aejm wrote: post #17

A really solid looking editor! Just a heads up on small, mobile screen sizes: the UI elements of the top row overlap unusably, the rest of the UI seems usable just quite zoomed in and I really had to pan around a lot to do anything. Fundamentally a solid and usable UI, I’d recommend a little more polish on smaller screen sizes. Good work!

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

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

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Post by thisisjedr »

6f17f2dd wrote: post #19

Do you plan to handle bigger documents? I tested your live demo with ~40 pages (copy pasting the demo) and was quite unusable for writing.

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 an issue https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-editor/issues/590
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