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Products that do what Rich text editor as a service – my free side project does

Hey all I've used one too many rich text editors in my career to know that they are cumbersome to add and manage. So I built a tool that I can use for myself and also let others use it. TextEditors is a tool that lets you easily add a rich text editor to your site. You can configure it by clicking on the toolbar elements you want and we give you instructions on how to add to your site. Pretty early days, but happy with the progress so far. Look forward to your feedback. https://www.texteditors.dev PS - yes it's free :)

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AiEditor▲589
An open source AI-powered rich text editor
2024
2OA
OverType – A Markdown WYSIWYG editor that's just a textarea▲471
Hi HN! I got so frustrated with modern WYSIWYG editors that I started to play around with building my own. The problem I had was simple: I wanted a low-tech way to type styled text, but I didn't want to load a complex 500KB library, especially if I was going to initialize it dozens of times on the same page. Markdown in a plain was the best alternative to a full WYSIWYG, but its main drawback is how ugly it looks without any formatting. I can handle it, but my clients certainly can't. I went down the ContentEditable rabbit hole for a few years, but always came to realize others had solved it…
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Tiptap Editor 3.0 Beta▲446
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4AI
An in-browser text editor to easily create static HTML▲140
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tiiny web editor▲259
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Tweetable Rich Text▲96
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2021
7
Hemingway Editor 3.0▲423
Make your writing bold and clear, send to Medium/Wordpress
2017
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Trix▲184
A rich text editor for everyday writing
2015
9LA
Lite – A small, fast text editor▲607
2020 · github.com
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Editor.js▲726
A block-styled editor with clean JSON output
2019 · editorjs.io
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Medium Editor▲266
The dead simple inline editor toolbar
2016
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TextMate 2.0▲155
Powerful and customizable text editor for Mac
2019
13AO
An open-source, collaborative, WYSIWYG Markdown editor▲460
Inspired by the design and UI/UX of apps like Notion, and utility of open-source apps like StackEdit, I decided to create a minimalistic, local-only WYSIWYG Markdown editor. Some features worth highlighting: - Monaco editor and Prettier integration for code snippets - Tables (apparently the holy grail of WYSIWYG editing) - Embeds (for CodePen, CodeSandbox and YouTube, most useful for HTML or JSON exports) - Accepts Markdown paste-in, and "exports"/generates HTML, Markdown and JSON outputs - Collaboration (with real-time awareness and initial commenting system, available only when…
2023 · editor.vrite.io
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Brackets 1.0▲190
An open-source text editor for web designers by Adobe
2014
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txt.edit▲109
The missing text editor for iPhone & iPad
2020
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Markdown Editor▲126
Clean, modern & open-source WYSIWYG markdown editor
2019
17WO
Wysihtml – Open-source rich text editor for web apps▲215
2014 · github.com
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Smart Text Editor▲94
The text editor that requires only a browser and a keyboard
2021
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blank.page▲90
Simple text editor in your browser
2023
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TextFlex▲179
Text editor & HTML viewer for iOS
2024
21
Quill▲83
An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API.
2014
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CSS Grab n' Go Editor▲213
Visual editor for learning and quick CSS mocking
2020
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CKEditor 5▲74
Real-time collaborative WYSIWYG rich text editor.
2018
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medium-draft▲98
A medium like rich text editor built upon draft-js
2016

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