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Meta's extensible text editor framework for React

20.0K stars 100 contributors Since 2022
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Meta's extensible text editor framework for React

License
MIT
Min RAM
64 MB
Min CPUs
1 core
Scaling
single_node
Complexity
advanced
Performance
medium
Self-hostable
K8s native
Offline
Pricing
fully free
Docs quality
good
Vendor lock-in
none

Use cases

  • Facebook-scale text editing
  • Custom editor with React integration
  • Accessible content creation tools

Anti-patterns / when NOT to use

  • No 1.0 release yet
  • Lacks pure decorations
  • React-focused — less framework-agnostic

Replaces / alternatives to

  • Draft.js
  • CKEditor

Technical specs

Language
TypeScript
API type
SDK
Protocols
HTTP
Deployment
npm
SDKs
javascripttypescript

Community

GitHub stars 20.0K
Contributors 100
Commit frequency weekly
Plugin ecosystem none
Backing Meta
Funding corporate

Release

Latest version
Last release
Since 2022

Best fit

Team size
solosmallmedium
Industries
general

Tags

  • rich-text-editor
  • react
  • extensible
  • accessible
  • lightweight
  • meta
  • nodes