Open-source alternatives to Draft Js Plugins

Yoopta-Editor is a headless framework for building customizable block-based rich text editors. It utilizes a JSON-based document engine to manage editor state and provides a WYSIWYG interface for creating structured documents. The system separates core document logic from the visual layer, allowing for complete customization of the user interface. The framework is designed for real-time collaborative editing, featuring a synchronization engine with conflict resolution and remote cursor presence tracking. It offers a highly extensible plugin system that allows developers to define new content

Vditor is a browser-based Markdown editor and rendering engine that supports multiple editing interfaces, including a visual rich-text experience, instant rendering, and a traditional side-by-side split-view preview. It serves as an authoring tool for technical documentation and a component for web-based editor integration. The project is distinguished by its support for complex technical content, utilizing specialized rendering for mathematical formulas, flowcharts, sequence diagrams, and mind maps. It also functions as a collaborative document review tool, enabling users to attach anchored

Trumbowyg is a lightweight JavaScript WYSIWYG editor used to create and format rich-text and HTML content directly within a web browser. It serves as a client-side tool for generating semantic HTML markup and authoring web content. The project features a modular, plugin-based architecture that allows for the addition of new formatting commands and toolbar buttons. It provides a configurable interface where the toolbar layout can be customized via a predefined array and labels can be translated through localization files. The editor covers a wide range of content manipulation capabilities, in

Cherry Markdown is a web-based Markdown editor and parsing engine that converts markup text into sanitized HTML with a real-time synchronized preview pane. It functions as a rich text interface and WYSIWYG tool, providing a system for transforming markup strings into HTML documents or portable formats. The project distinguishes itself through high-performance rendering and a flexible extensibility model. It uses virtual DOM diffing and partial rendering to maintain responsiveness in large documents, and it allows for the creation of custom parsing rules and specialized HTML components via a p

Trix is a rich text editor and WYSIWYG text component designed for composing and formatting documents with inline styling and block elements. It functions as an HTML content editor that manages and sanitizes input to ensure a secure and consistent document structure, while serving as a document state manager that tracks edit history and persists serialized state. The editor integrates directly with standard HTML forms, converting rich text into data for submission. It features a configurable sanitization engine that cleanses input HTML to remove unsupported tags and mitigate security risks.

Squire is a DOM-based rich text editor and WYSIWYG content editor that treats raw HTML as the source of truth. It functions as a system for manipulating the document object model directly to provide a visual interface for editing complex web content. The project focuses on arbitrary HTML editing, allowing the modification of any HTML content without losing original formatting. It includes tools for HTML content normalization and sanitization to ensure that raw input is cleaned and structured consistently before being rendered as editable nodes. The editor's capability surface covers inline f

Slate is a customizable rich text editor framework that treats documents as a recursive tree of nodes. It functions as a schema-based, state-driven system designed to enforce structural constraints and manage nested components within a structured document model. The framework utilizes a plugin-based architecture to extend editor functionality, allowing for the injection of custom logic into the rendering and transformation pipeline. It supports real-time collaborative editing by synchronizing document operations across multiple users. The system covers a broad range of capabilities, includin

richeditor-android is a reusable Android UI component that provides a WYSIWYG rich text editor. It functions as an HTML content editor that uses a WebView to render and manipulate text, allowing users to compose formatted documents. The editor enables the integration of multimedia, such as images, audio files, and YouTube videos, directly into the text area. It supports custom visual configuration through CSS styling and provides a read-only mode for displaying formatted content without allowing modifications. The toolset covers rich text formatting for styles like bold, italic, and underlin

Medium.js is a JavaScript rich text editor library and framework for building what-you-see-is-what-you-get editors. It acts as a lightweight wrapper for the browser contenteditable API, transforming standard elements into styled editors that support rich text formatting and semantic HTML output. The library functions as an HTML content sanitizer, stripping unwanted tags and attributes from typed or pasted content to maintain clean markup. It provides a system for implementing custom keyboard interactions and mapping shortcuts to trigger styling changes or element insertion. The framework cov

wangEditor is a JavaScript-based web rich text editor and WYSIWYG interface used for composing formatted documents directly in a browser. It serves as a client-side editing component for web applications to handle document styling and content manipulation. The editor is built as a plugin-based engine, allowing new features and formatting capabilities to be added through a registration interface. It utilizes a schema-driven approach to validate HTML tags and attributes, ensuring clean and consistent document output. The project provides tooling for content management systems, frontend text in

bootstrap-wysiwyg is a WYSIWYG HTML editor and browser-based content editor designed to integrate with the Bootstrap CSS framework. It provides a visual interface for creating and formatting rich text content that outputs HTML markup. The editor allows for custom text formatting workflows through the configuration of toolbars and keyboard shortcuts. Users can embed images via drag-and-drop and utilize a dedicated process to clean up redundant tags and whitespace in the generated markup.

Notion-style WYSIWYG editor with AI-powered autocompletion.

Pell is a JavaScript text editor library and browser-based rich text editor. It provides a lightweight WYSIWYG HTML editor for formatting styled text and outputting HTML directly within a web browser. The library is a dependency-free vanilla implementation that uses standard Web APIs. It allows for the definition of custom editor actions and text actions to extend the toolbar and the creation of custom visual themes to modify the editor appearance. The editor covers rich text editing and browser-based text formatting, including the application of bold, italic, headings, and lists. It also su

TinyMCE is a JavaScript rich text editor and WYSIWYG HTML editor that provides a visual interface for creating and formatting content within web applications. It functions as an extensible editor framework and web content management UI, allowing users to author and style documents through a browser-based interface. The project is distinguished by a plugin-based extension system and a public API that enable the addition of custom capabilities and modifications to the visual interface. It utilizes a framework-agnostic core, providing dedicated integration for React, Vue, and Angular. The syste

This project is a customizable browser text editor and a schema-driven document framework designed for building React-based WYSIWYG content editors. It replaces standard text areas with a system that represents content as a structured data tree rather than flat HTML, allowing for precise manipulation and validation of documents. The framework serves as an extensible content management interface and a TypeScript UI component library. It enables the development of specialized authoring tools through a plugin system and the use of strongly typed building blocks to ensure consistency across docum

Simditor is a JavaScript-based rich text editor and WYSIWYG HTML editor designed for creating structured documents within web applications. It functions as a web-based media editor and HTML content sanitizer, allowing users to compose and format content visually. The project distinguishes itself through an integrated system for handling media and security. It features server-side image upload capabilities that support both local file selection and clipboard pasting, alongside a whitelist-based HTML markup filtering system to ensure consistent and secure output. The editor provides broad capa

Quill is a JavaScript rich text editor library used to build WYSIWYG web editors. It serves as a modular editor framework for creating browser-based document authoring tools with a customizable interface and document model. The system functions as a modular content editor, providing a plugin system to extend formatting and embedding capabilities. This allows for the development of specialized text editors through custom modules and formatting plugins. The library covers the implementation of visual content creation interfaces that render formatted text and media in real time. Its primary cap

CKEditor 4 is a browser-based WYSIWYG rich text editor that enables users to create and format HTML content directly in the browser. It operates on a plugin-based architecture with a configurable toolbar system, DOM-based content editing, and an event-driven lifecycle, all delivered through a CDN-based distribution model. The editor supports skin-based theming and includes a legacy plugin compatibility layer for backward compatibility. The editor distinguishes itself as a cross-platform framework that integrates natively with Angular, React, Vue, Electron, Android, and iOS environments. It of

This project is a plugin-based WYSIWYG document layout engine and rich text editor that uses Canvas and SVG for rendering. It functions as a collaborative editor utilizing conflict-free replicated data types to enable real-time synchronization across multiple users. The system serves as an interactive form builder, allowing for the embedding of input controls such as checkboxes and date pickers directly into documents. It is designed for high-fidelity output, ensuring the visual representation during editing matches the final format for PDF and image exports. The editor covers broad capabili

This project is a collection of pre-styled React components designed for building responsive messaging interfaces and real-time chat applications. It functions as a modular toolkit that allows developers to assemble custom chat windows, message feeds, and input fields within web applications using a component-based architecture. The library distinguishes itself by providing a centralized logic layer for managing conversation data, including user presence, message history, and typing indicators. It handles the complexities of message stream navigation, such as automatic scrolling and dynamic h

sir-trevor-js is a modular block-based rich text editor and content framework. It functions as a customizable WYSIWYG editor that transforms visual input into a structured JSON content framework, storing documents as a tree of independent data blocks rather than flat HTML strings. The system is distinguished by its focus on structured content management, allowing users to define custom block types, set block constraints, and implement schema-based content validation. It provides a plugin system for extending the editor with specialized content types and uses event-driven lifecycle hooks to ex

vue-quill-editor is a Quill rich text editor component for Vue applications. It provides an extensible WYSIWYG interface for creating and formatting rich text content within web applications. The component is designed to be SSR compatible, ensuring it functions in both client-side single page applications and server-side rendering environments to prevent hydration errors. The library supports the integration of external plugins for specialized functionality such as table creation and image resizing. It allows for the handling of editor events and the management of content through a Vue-based

ContentTools is a JavaScript framework and suite of tools for building visual WYSIWYG editors. It provides a DOM manipulation library for parsing and transforming HTML strings into structured editable regions, alongside a visual document orchestrator that manages element behaviors and state transitions. The framework includes a specialized browser selection manager to ensure consistent caret positioning and text range highlighting across different web browsers. It also features an HTML content validator used to sanitize output and convert third-party media links into valid embed formats. The

VvvebJs is a self-hosted, vanilla JavaScript library for visually assembling web pages by dragging pre-built HTML components onto a canvas. It functions as a visual HTML editor and component-based page builder that requires no build tools or external dependencies, and can be deployed on a server with PHP or Node.js backend for saving and exporting pages. The builder organizes reusable HTML components into named groups for drag-and-drop assembly, and provides visual property editing that modifies HTML attributes, CSS styles, and class names through form controls and property panels. It include

This project is a JavaScript spreadsheet component and web-based data table that provides an interactive grid for managing tabular data. It functions as a cross-framework UI component compatible with React, Vue, and jQuery, and can also be embedded as a standalone web component. The grid is specifically designed for XLSX interoperability, allowing users to import and export XLSX files while preserving formulas and styles. It distinguishes itself through real-time collaboration for simultaneous multi-user editing and a flexible system for creating custom cell editors and specialized column typ

This project is a browser-based JavaScript library that transforms standard web elements into inline, WYSIWYG rich text editing areas. It functions as a programmatic wrapper around the native browser content-editable attribute, providing a structured interface for managing text input, media embedding, and document formatting directly within existing page layouts. The editor is distinguished by its contextual floating toolbar, which dynamically appears based on user text selection to provide relevant formatting options. It utilizes a plugin-based architecture that allows developers to inject c

Editable is a modular framework for building custom web-based rich text editors. It provides a structured environment for managing complex document content, including support for structured data like lists and grids, while maintaining an immutable tree representation to ensure predictable state manipulation. The framework distinguishes itself through a collaborative engine that synchronizes document state across multiple users in real-time using operational transformation. It also features a plugin-based architecture that allows developers to intercept rendering and node behavior, enabling th