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Re: Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux

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Post by ojosilva »

Looks and works great, but there are 2 limitations I think would prevent it from using it in our stack:

1) It cannot be easily embedded, ie. as a field in a form. Apparently it's meant (UI-wise at least) as a full-screen editor and has lots of dependencies of its own, including React.

2) AGPLv3 license is a killer. Means that any work that links to the library should be opensourced. Despite some people interpreting it differently, it would be risky for a consumer product to ship making use of this library.

Re: Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux

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Post by arekkas »

ojosilva wrote: post #31

Looks and works great, but there are 2 limitations I think would prevent it from using it in our stack: 1) It cannot be easily embedded, ie. as a field in a form. Apparently it's meant (UI-wise at least) as a full-screen editor and has lots of dependencies of its own, including React. 2) AGPLv3 license is a killer. Means that any work that links to the library should be opensourced. Despite some people interpreting i…

We are working on (1), and make it possible to include it in non-react environments. However, there are still some dependencies required (such as react). So yes, this is not perfect at the moment.

We're actually not confident with AGPLv3. We might change it to a more permissive license if it prevents people from adopting the technology. Feel free to create an issue on GitHub and we'll discuss it!

Re: Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux

#35

Post by arekkas »

hitekker wrote: post #30
arekkas wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is actually using slate js! We've been contributing to slate too :)

Ha, then I should read more carefully before I comment :-) Excellent work! Do you think it may make more sense to market Ory as a Page Editor or Page Maker? Content in my mind can mean anything from a block to an entire page, though I recognize that CMS's have popularized the idea of content being equivalent to a page. Right now, I see "Layout Editor" and "Content Editor" being used to describe it, so maybe it would…

Yes, we've been banging our heads to finde the right terminology to describe it. We'll put page editor / maker to our list of keywords :)

Re: Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux

#36

Post by oneeyedpigeon »

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #17
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Big parts of the toolset I use every day are several decades old; if done correctly, software can be iterated and refined until it's of a very high quality. In my experience, it tends to stand a much greater chance the smaller it is (the best examples I'm thinking of are small unix command-line tools like find, grep).

Yet I resent every time I have to use grep, instead of a tool integrated with my IDE. Certainly those baroque old tools have their detractors too. That they survive so long (like vi and emacs) due to cults, not objective evaluation?

I use sublime text as my main editor, but I still need to use vi from time-to-time - e.g. when ssh'ing to a remote server. That's definitely an objective need, unless you can offer an alternative that is just as widely available.

Re: Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux

#37

Post by rkuykendall-com »

I'd love to switch to a modern, React editor, but sadly they're all for 'rich text', but not full HTML, so I'm stuck with TinyMCE.

I realize my use case is uncommon, which is users tweaking HTML emails before they are sent.

Re: Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux

#38

Post by explorigin »

cocktailpeanuts wrote: post #21

Isn't a lot of the "Others don't do this" addressed by Prosemirror? http://prosemirror.net/

One of their requirements is "Based on reusable React Components, it gives developers, authors and designers new ways of working together and creating better and richer experiences more easily."

So basically Prosemirror is not buzzword-compatible enough for them.

And also, "It is built by a company, reducing the likelihood of abandonment." Because Marijn Haverbeke's reputation for abandoning projects is so prominant

(Full disclosure: I supported the Prosemirror Kickstarter and contributed to CodeMirror.)

Re: Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux

#39

Post by tarr11 »

rkuykendall-com wrote: post #37

I'd love to switch to a modern, React editor, but sadly they're all for 'rich text', but not full HTML, so I'm stuck with TinyMCE. I realize my use case is uncommon, which is users tweaking HTML emails before they are sent.

You should take a look at the Monaco Editor[1], which is used in VS Code. It is available as a javascript component, and there is also a React wrapper around it [2]

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor

[2] https://github.com/superRaytin/react-monaco-editor

Re: Show HN: ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux

#40

Post by Filligree »

How performant is this?

I don't have it on me right now, but if I were to dump a 400-kW document into the editor, would it still be snappy? That's one of the major weaknesses of Google Docs right now, and I'd consider switching if I found anything that lacks it.

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