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

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Nope, sorry. If you send us an email, we can work something out :)

~~Why does one have to send an email just to ask about license?~~ Edit: As people had pointed out, that they were asking for chat to integrate it into the email client. Sorry for the confusion.

They were sharing their email address because upstream commenter asks "is there a way we can chat?"

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

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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.

Slate is in beta and isn’t stable yet last time I heard.

IMHO still the best there is, at least in the React space. But yeah, stuck in beta for what feels like forever.

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

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

There are LOTS of competitors, but of course, not all are apples to apples.

Here is a partial list of some of the more active wysiwyg editors:

   Quill: https://quilljs.com
   Slate: https://www.slatejs.org  
   Trumbowyg: https://alex-d.github.io/Trumbowyg
   ContentTools: http://getcontenttools.com
   SummerNote: https://summernote.org
   Squire: https://github.com/neilj/Squire
   Editor.js: https://codex.so/editor
   ProseMirror: https://prosemirror.net/
I have personally been happy with Quill (the have their own system for storing text which is interesting.

Many of these have active branches, especially in Vue or React etc.

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

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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…

Here's the problem relying on slate (I've used it and all the others [quill, ckeditor, etc etc]) -- you are also relying on Ian Storm Taylor and he's known for going on a streak and re-writing things in a breaking manner. IMO you should just build the entire thing yourself.

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

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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…

Here's the problem relying on slate (I've used it and all the others [quill, ckeditor, etc etc]) -- you are also relying on Ian Storm Taylor and he's known for going on a streak and re-writing things in a breaking manner. IMO you should just build the entire thing yourself.

That’s one of the reasons we only rely on Slate for our text plugin. So we could swap Slate for some different rich-text editor in the future if we need to. Though I have to say, we are very happy with Slate.

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

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Here's the problem relying on slate (I've used it and all the others [quill, ckeditor, etc etc]) -- you are also relying on Ian Storm Taylor and he's known for going on a streak and re-writing things in a breaking manner. IMO you should just build the entire thing yourself.

That’s one of the reasons we only rely on Slate for our text plugin. So we could swap Slate for some different rich-text editor in the future if we need to. Though I have to say, we are very happy with Slate.

Nice. I honestly have been looking for something like this for awhile. All the examples I found with slate were either insufficient or outdated (i.e. canner editor) -- and in a focus on speed (being a solo founder), I couldn't compromise. I'm going to try to implement this for my editor on my site. Would be cool to be able to publish content with custom components (closest I could find for CKEditor [which I'm using] is: https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/framework/guides/...) -- but the implementation for that is rather clunky (more so on the render side -- e.g. how do I save the data in my database such that I know which components to call? CSS classes? data attributes?) So the underlying structure of having JSON for the data structure with Slate (and now this) gives me more confidence as a dev.

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

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That’s one of the reasons we only rely on Slate for our text plugin. So we could swap Slate for some different rich-text editor in the future if we need to. Though I have to say, we are very happy with Slate.

Nice. I honestly have been looking for something like this for awhile. All the examples I found with slate were either insufficient or outdated (i.e. canner editor) -- and in a focus on speed (being a solo founder), I couldn't compromise. I'm going to try to implement this for my editor on my site. Would be cool to be able to publish content with custom components (closest I could find for CKEditor [which I'm using]…

Would love to hear from you on how it goes :)

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

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Is it possible to embed the editor on a web page?

Yes, it’s Backend-agnostic and designed to be embeddable into any web app. It’s basically an editor framework to define your own editor and you write the glue code to your web app.

TBH my suggestion is to work on making this more clear of who it's for. Maybe add a comparison to other current solutions out there, since at first I was a bit confused what it's trying to do. Maybe use like intro.js or something for it.

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

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So can I put this on my site to kind of make a cms for my site to add pages or blogs/blog posts etc?

Kinda. You can integrate it into your existing CMS to make the editing (for your end users) easier, especially for “enriched” content (think interactive content, complex layout)
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