Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

#1

Post by firemelt » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 10:52 AM UTC

Used to use trix but my current project is CMS-like, so I think I need better WYSIWYG HTML based editor

atleast I need to be as useful as wordpress article editor

for extra note I think I will built the project using ruby on rails, if anyone have stack suggestions, please tell me I will happy to have that

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

#2

Post by joshxyz » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 11:54 AM UTC

almost everything i used has bugs and edge cases.

these days i just try to stick with markdown, which is more controlled and scope-limited, albeit more targetted for technical people.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

#3

Post by ZiiS » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 12:07 PM UTC

https://lexical.dev/ is nice.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

#4

Post by ch_sm » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 12:15 PM UTC

I really enjoyed working with Prosemirror/TipTap2. It‘s extremely flexible!

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

#5

Post by bph » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 12:17 PM UTC

There are efforts to document how you can use WordPress editor as a stand alone library for your web projects. https://github.com/WordPress/Gutenberg/platform-docs/docs/in...

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

#6

Post by williamstein » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 12:22 PM UTC

I like https://www.slatejs.org/examples/richtext and found the source code very readable and adaptable to my needs.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

#7

Post by mkl » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 12:50 PM UTC

ch_sm wrote: post #4

I really enjoyed working with Prosemirror/TipTap2. It‘s extremely flexible!

Have you hooked it up to Yjs for realtime collaboration? I'm about to try that. The docs (https://tiptap.dev/guide/collaborative-editing) make it seem fairly straightforward.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

#8

Post by ulrischa » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 12:50 PM UTC

Use Gutenberg or a block editor like this (https://github.com/codex-team/editor.js) for a CMS. The HTML based WYSIWYG days are over.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

#9

Post by mkl » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 12:58 PM UTC

ulrischa wrote: post #8

Use Gutenberg or a block editor like this ( https://github.com/codex-team/editor.js ) for a CMS. The HTML based WYSIWYG days are over.

Editor.js is WYSIWYG.

Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite FOSS WYSIWYG editor?

#10

Post by danielvaughn » Sun, Oct 22, 2023, 12:59 PM UTC

mkl wrote: post #7

ch_sm wrote: post #4

I really enjoyed working with Prosemirror/TipTap2. It‘s extremely flexible!

Have you hooked it up to Yjs for realtime collaboration? I'm about to try that. The docs ( https://tiptap.dev/guide/collaborative-editing ) make it seem fairly straightforward.

I did it last year. Implementing the server was challenging, only because I was working with a large database of existing documents. The thing about YJS is that it's a data structure itself, which means that your document is going to be a YJS document. I remember thinking "okay so there must be a way to convert the YJS doc into html and write that to the database once the session is over." I never figured that part out, and had to do a bunch of hacky shit to get it to work.

If you're working on a greenfield project it'll probably be easier. And the integration with TipTap itself was simple. I love TipTap.