Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

Post by dbbk » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 12:40 PM UTC

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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…

Post by dbbk » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 12:43 PM UTC

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Why the sarcasm?

I work at Notion and recently rebuilt much of the editor core, and I don’t think Slate is a good choice because it considers nice, simple code more important than CJK or Android support. Notion doesn’t use Slate or any other editor framework. I just study a lot of editor core code.

Post by trueadm » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 1:09 PM UTC

chrismorgan wrote: post #88

Hmm, just tried the playground in Firefox on Linux, it’s about as buggy as fancy things like this tend to be. • Inserting emoji with my Compose key: some (e.g. U+1F641) get turned into image-backed emoji and then duplicated unless preceded by another image-backed emoji; some (e.g. U+1F928) get ignored and left as normal text. • If I type an emoji that gets duplicated while inside a link (but not inside bold/italic),…

Post by trueadm » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 1:32 PM UTC

mhdhn wrote: post #77

There do not seem to be text direction controls. I see it does basic heuristic text direction guessing, apparently based on first strong LTR or RTL character in a paragraph, but this is often not adequate for determining text direction correctly, hence the need for explicit control, at least at the paragraph level, ideally also at subparagraph level. Any plans to add such controls? There are about a billion users of…

Post by acywatson » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 3:55 PM UTC

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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!