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Re: Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

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Post by acywatson »

thorncorona wrote: post #47

I realize this isn't probably your product surface but do you have any idea why FB messenger still has issues with double texting using the text box? Also, how do you guys design to reduce latency in Lexical? Esp considering the fluidity of modern chat clients ex. Telegram which are much more performant.

You mean typing latency, right? The most important thing we do there is handling reconciliation ourselves rather than delegating to a framework (e.g., React). If you have full control over the reconciliation process, it's just a matter of continuous incremental optimization.

Re: Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

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Post by hemantv »

hit8run wrote: post #50
trueadm wrote: post #2

I'm the author of Lexical and one of the many engineers working on Lexical full-time at Meta. If you'd like to know anything, or ask any questions, please do! For those of you looking for the sourcecode for the playground, you can find it here: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/tree/main/packages/lexic... We also have a Discord channel you can check out: https://discord.gg/KmG4wQnnD9

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Seriously wtf

Re: Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

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Post by hemantv »

trueadm wrote: post #2

I'm the author of Lexical and one of the many engineers working on Lexical full-time at Meta. If you'd like to know anything, or ask any questions, please do! For those of you looking for the sourcecode for the playground, you can find it here: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/tree/main/packages/lexic... We also have a Discord channel you can check out: https://discord.gg/KmG4wQnnD9

Awesome work. I have been early user of Lexical building getstable.co.

Thanks for great framework and design ;)

Re: Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

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Post by chucky123 »

samwillis wrote: post #12
trueadm wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure thing. I actually wrote up a really detailed response to this on ProseMirror's discussion board: https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/differences-between-prosem... Ultimately though, there are many similarities between the two – intentionally so. We were inspired by ProseMirror and some of its APIs and approaches. I think the biggest underlying differences are in how we tackle things from a DX perspective. We tried…

Interesting you say DX is a large aspect of what you are going for. ProseMirror is awesome but the API can be somewhat complex for simple things (but at the same time incredibly powerful when you get to understand it). I absolutely love TipTap[0] which is providing a much more user friendly API on top of ProseMirror, along with a clean Plugin system. Going to have to have a play with Lexical, excited to see Yjs suppo…

Fundamental problem with Tiptap is its horrendous docs. If lexical can put out better docs, it is better than Tiptap automatically.

Re: Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

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Post by guessmyname »

trueadm wrote: post #2

I'm the author of Lexical and one of the many engineers working on Lexical full-time at Meta. If you'd like to know anything, or ask any questions, please do! For those of you looking for the sourcecode for the playground, you can find it here: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/tree/main/packages/lexic... We also have a Discord channel you can check out: https://discord.gg/KmG4wQnnD9

What does “web text editor framework that powers Facebook” actually mean?

I don’t use Facebook, but AFAIK, there are no “blog features” in the platform, are there?

Other than a WYSIWYG editor [1], what other use cases do you intend this project for?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG

Re: Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

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Post by tumultco »

trueadm wrote: post #2

I'm the author of Lexical and one of the many engineers working on Lexical full-time at Meta. If you'd like to know anything, or ask any questions, please do! For those of you looking for the sourcecode for the playground, you can find it here: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/tree/main/packages/lexic... We also have a Discord channel you can check out: https://discord.gg/KmG4wQnnD9

Thanks for your work in developing this!

Does Lexical have a feature to set arbitrary CSS on a particular selection range? I've been looking for a solution to do this since the WebKit's -[WebView applyStyle:] is deprecated as part of WebView Legacy. It isn't clear to me from glancing at the docs if RangeSelection.formatText() or other methods can handle anything or just a subset of styling code. Thanks!

Re: Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

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Post by jjuliano »

jjuliano wrote: post #37
trueadm wrote: post #2

I'm the author of Lexical and one of the many engineers working on Lexical full-time at Meta. If you'd like to know anything, or ask any questions, please do! For those of you looking for the sourcecode for the playground, you can find it here: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/tree/main/packages/lexic... We also have a Discord channel you can check out: https://discord.gg/KmG4wQnnD9

Hi, I did (or somewhat invented/devised) a similar concept, but for visually programming UI design. See: https://jjuliano.github.io/markdown-ui/docs/container.html

sorry, I didn't realize this was a text editor. I was initially looking at the time-travel screen (the black box), and thought that is where to type things to be able to use it.

Lexical is awesome!

Re: Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

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Post by taf2 »

trueadm wrote: post #2

I'm the author of Lexical and one of the many engineers working on Lexical full-time at Meta. If you'd like to know anything, or ask any questions, please do! For those of you looking for the sourcecode for the playground, you can find it here: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/tree/main/packages/lexic... We also have a Discord channel you can check out: https://discord.gg/KmG4wQnnD9

Does it have vim keybindings? And does it need react or is there a standalone way to embed it?

Re: Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

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Post by chii »

guessmyname wrote: post #56
trueadm wrote: post #2

I'm the author of Lexical and one of the many engineers working on Lexical full-time at Meta. If you'd like to know anything, or ask any questions, please do! For those of you looking for the sourcecode for the playground, you can find it here: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/tree/main/packages/lexic... We also have a Discord channel you can check out: https://discord.gg/KmG4wQnnD9

What does “web text editor framework that powers Facebook” actually mean? I don’t use Facebook, but AFAIK, there are no “blog features” in the platform, are there? Other than a WYSIWYG editor [1], what other use cases do you intend this project for? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14838232

> The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can’t spend writing new features. Look closely at the software landscape. The companies that do well are the ones who rely least on big companies and don’t have to spend all their cycles catching up and reimplementing and fixing bugs that crop up [only on Windows XP.]

so it is the same with the modern day web frameworks as it is in the old days of windows and microsoft's dominance.

Joel Spolsky was as right in early 2002 as he is right in 2022.

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