Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps
We are working on an open-source .docx editor library for apps that need to edit Word documents in the browser. We just shipped 1.0. A lot of existing approaches convert .docx into HTML and lose document semantics along the way. Our editor parses OOXML directly and uses its own rendering+layout engine to produce paged documents with html/css. Edits round-trip back to .docx, so you’re always editing the document, not its representation. The core rendering engine is framework agnostic, with React and Vue ui adapters on top. It’s Apache 2.0. Happy to answer questions.
Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps launched on May 21, 2026 with 107 votes, #285 of 20,538 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
An open-source library for editing Word documents (.docx files) directly in web browsers. It parses OOXML format and renders documents with its own layout engine rather than converting to HTML, preserving document structure and formatting. Changes save back to the original .docx format. The framework-agnostic core includes adapters for React and Vue. Released under Apache 2.0 license, it's built for developers integrating document editing into web applications.
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Open-source WYSIWYG .docx editor library for React and Vue with canonical OOXML, tracked changes, and real-time collaboration. Agent-ready. - eigenpal/docx-editor
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