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

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

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Post by fourstar »

sam_goody wrote: post #23
iforgotmypass wrote: post #2

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://p…

Best I could find would be: https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/czi-prosemirror but they kinda stopped working on it.

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

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Post by ergo14 »

monikgandhi wrote: post #17

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

Yeah, but it only makes sense to do so on a page that already is using react. If you are using some other JS framework it will add 140kb dep on react+react-dom - which might be a problem (or not depending on your use case).

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

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Post by inyono »

ergo14 wrote: post #32
monikgandhi wrote: post #17

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

Yeah, but it only makes sense to do so on a page that already is using react. If you are using some other JS framework it will add 140kb dep on react+react-dom - which might be a problem (or not depending on your use case).

Definitely a good point. Just wanted to note that you could write a renderer in some server language that outputs static HTML. And only use the editor to make that static content editable (loaded asynchronously or on a different route). The serialized state is easy to parse by design.

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

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Post by inyono »

raidicy wrote: post #15

This looks really cool but I think maybe an image on the landing page might help

Additionally to the sibling comments: you can also check out the demo at demo.edtr.io that contains way more plugins. It’s pretty much what we use on Serlo.org.

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

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Post by hk__2 »

inyono wrote: post #36
spurgu wrote: post #35

Criticism: Cmd+left/right/up/down doesn't work - instant dealbreaker.

What you’d prefer they do? Moving rows around?

Probably nothing: they already exist in Chrome as, respectively, next/previous / top/bottom of the page. Edtr.io appears to hijack them for no reason.

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

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Post by bhl »

fourstar wrote: post #26
inyono wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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]…

Try ProseMirror. There’s a high learning curve at the beginning, but it’s pretty simple to make custom nodes and plugins once you understand the framework and APIs.
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