Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
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Re: Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
#2Does it work on Android?
Re: Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
#3Does it work on Android?
It does. If you get the chance to try Lexical out, please do let us know of any issues you face when using Android, as I'm sure there are some we've yet to find yet.
Re: Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
#4Related:
Lexical is now open-source (web text-editor) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31017943 - April 2022 (13 comments)
Re: Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
#5How does this compare to others like Monaco, Ace, etc?
Re: Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
#6It's worth mentioning that it seems like you need to use react with this.
Re: Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
#7How does this compare to others like Monaco, Ace, etc?
Despite the name (and the misleading-at-first-glance "demo" on the home page), Lexical appears to be a rich text editor like Quill or ProseMirror, not a code editor.
Re: Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
#8It's worth mentioning that it seems like you need to use react with this.
You don't need React. Lexical has no dependencies, so you can build bindings for your framework/library of choice. There are folks working on a SolidJS implementation right now. You could also do it with VanillaJS if you wanted too.
The reason we have React bindings from the start, is because we needed these internally at Meta.
Re: Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
#9How does this compare to others like Monaco, Ace, etc?
Despite the name (and the misleading-at-first-glance "demo" on the home page), Lexical appears to be a rich text editor like Quill or ProseMirror, not a code editor.
You could definitely build a code editor with Lexical. There's already a lot of interest in the community to add plugins around Lexical to match that of ProseMirror. It might not be there right now, but the foundations that make it possible aren't missing.
Re: Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
#10It's worth mentioning that it seems like you need to use react with this.
You don't need React. Lexical has no dependencies, so you can build bindings for your framework/library of choice. There are folks working on a SolidJS implementation right now. You could also do it with VanillaJS if you wanted too. The reason we have React bindings from the start, is because we needed these internally at Meta.
GP may be responding to the fact that the vanilla quick start page is empty while the react one is not