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24 alternatives to Draft.js

A framework for building rich text editors in React

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Draft.js launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   React Draft Wysiwyg▲131

   Out of the box, feature-rich content editing for React

   2016 · jpuri.github.io · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Brackets 1.0▲190

   An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe

   2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

3. 3
   DraftJS Plugins 2.0▲247

   Now with rich text editing toolbars & drag’n’drop for images

   2017 · medium.com · its alternatives →

4. 4
   Editor.js▲723

   A block-styled editor with clean JSON output

   2019 · editorjs.io · its alternatives →

5. 5
   DraftJS Plugins▲260

   Slack-like emojis, FB-like mentions & stickers for web apps

   2016 · draft-js-plugins.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   React Rich Text Editor – Built on DraftJS▲18

   Pure React rich text WYSIWYG editor based on draft-js. - sstur/react-rte

   2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   medium-draft▲98

   A medium like rich text editor built upon draft-js

   2016 · bitwiser.in · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Blueprint▲203

   A React UI toolkit for the web

   2016 · blueprintjs.com · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Draft▲56

   GitHub for Writing

   2013 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Craft.js – A React framework to build any page editor▲26

    🚀 A React Framework for building extensible drag and drop page editors - prevwong/craft.js

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    JSX.Design▲413

    The dev friendly no-code editor for React development

    2024 · its alternatives →

12. 12
    Draft▲149

    GitHub for writing

    2013 · its alternatives →

13. 13
    ORY Editor – A rich editor for the browser, built with React and Redux▲369

    Next-gen, highly customizable content editor for the browser - based on React and written in TypeScript. WYSIWYG on steroids. - react-page/react-page

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    Squire▲123

    The <textarea> of the future. A HTML5 rich text editor.

    2014 · neilj.github.io · its alternatives →

15. 15
    Atom▲145

    A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

    2014 · github.blog · its alternatives →

16. 16
    slash-editor▲76

    Notion-style block editor for React. MIT, UI you own

    21d ago · slasheditor.dev · its alternatives →

17. 17
    SMASHDOCs 2.0▲98

    A simple, easy-to-use web editor

    2017 · smashdocs.net · its alternatives →

18. 18
    Render▲169

    React-inspired Swift library for writing UIKit UIs

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

19. 19
    Reapp▲89

    A new way to build hybrid apps with React, Webpack, and JS.

    2015 · reapp.io · its alternatives →

20. 20
    NW.js▲77

    A new way of writing desktop apps with Web technologies

    2015 · nwjs.io · its alternatives →

21. 21
    Composé▲91

    An editor for creating interactive iOS prototypes and apps

    2015 · its alternatives →

22. 22
    Macaw▲90

    A simple code editor for Swift

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

23. 23
    Draftr▲70

    Share drafts of your work & collect feedback easily.

    2016 · draftr.xyz · its alternatives →

24. 24
    Scribe▲4

    A rich text editor framework for the web platform.

    2016 · guardian.github.io · its alternatives →

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