Rich text / HTML editors and frameworks

rich-text-html-editors.md

Strictly Frameworks

• Mobiledoc - github.com/bustle/mobiledoc-kit - framework to build editors with a standardized JSON structure
• ShareDB - github.com/share/sharedb - framework to sync any JSON document using operational transforms, add real-time collaborative editing to anything else
• Bangle.dev - github.com/bangle-io/bangle.dev - toolkit built for building editors, based on prosemirror

Abstracted Editors

These use separate document structures instead of HTML, some are more modular libraries than full editors

• ProseMirror - prosemirror.net - supports collaborative editing, offers similar options to Mobiledoc for data structure
• Lexical - lexical.dev - extensible editor library from Facebook replacing Draft
• Quill - quilljs.com - modern editor built for compatibility and extensibility
• Trix - trix-editor.org - by Basecamp team used in v3
• CKEditor 5 - ckeditor.com - long history, very customizable, new architecture with built-in collaboration
• Editor.js - editorjs.io - block-based editor
• TipTap - tiptap.dev - headless, framework-agnostic, extendable editor based on ProseMirror
• Etherpad - etherpad.org - collaborative realtime editing framework, backend, and editor
• Draft - draftjs.org - rich text editor framework for React
• Slate - slatejs.org - customizable framework for building rich text editors inspired by Draft, ProseMirror, Quill
• Plate - plate.udecode.io - plugin framework for building rich text editors with slate.
• Verbum - github.com/ozanyurtsever/verbum - flexible text editor based on Lexical framework

Dom-Based Editors

• Froala - froala.com - best editor (IMO) for traditional HTML structure
• TinyMCE - tiny.cloud/tinymce - long history, big community, completely redesigned new version 5
• Redactor X - imperavi.com/redactorx - new modern editor with powerful API capabilities
• Summernote - summernote.org - super simple editor on bootstrap
• Squire - github.com/neilj/Squire - used in FastMail webmail, better for text than images
• Trumbowyg - alex-d.github.io/Trumbowyg - html5 editor as jquery plugin
• medium-editor - github.com/yabwe/medium-editor - clone of Medium.com's editor

Hi! Thanks for including CKEditor 5, but there's actually a mistake regarding its architecture.

CKEditor 5 (http://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5):

• Has a custom data model (it's not a DOM-based editor). You can read about its architecture.
• It is a modular framework as well as a set of ready-to-use editor builds.
• It is a complete rewrite of CKEditor 4 (http://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-4) – those are completely separate projects so it'd make sense to list one in the "Abstracted editors" and one in the "DOM-based editors" sections.
• It supports real-time collaborative editing.

https://github.com/madebymany/sir-trevor-js

https://github.com/vigetlabs/colonel-kurtz

Thanks for including TinyMCE! V5 is out now and has a completely rewritten UI using the best parts of Textbox.io. You can probably merge these two entries now :)

Thanks for doing this list! It is great. It would be great to add a column saying whether they are open-source (MIT / BSD) etc because we've realised to use so of these editors in our commercial SaaS application, we would need to buy a licence - and some of those are quite pricey!

Tiptap moved to https://github.com/ueberdosis/tiptap ✌️