Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich text editors

Re:Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich tex... by robinwassen on Thursday November 15, 2018 @02:51AM (#18457608)

Looks promising. After working with and evaluating many rich text editors I usually consider building one myself as a nightmare, due to the interaction complexity and browser differences.

One thing that strikes me with this editor, similar to many others that are innovative and promising, is how Edge and mobile are not first class citizens.

That will severly limit the use case for the editor to niche products or embedded in apps build in Electron or similar.

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Re:Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich tex... by wiktor_walc on Friday November 16, 2018 @01:39AM (#18466961)

CKEditor team member here :)

If you are looking for a modern, modular editor, with a custom data model and collaboration check CKEditor 5 (https://ckeditor.com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/features/index.ht... and https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/). It comes with decent mobile and Edge support already (Electron is supported too). Paste from Word will be delivered within 2-3 weeks. For collaboration we already offer a complete and stable solution out of the box where you don't have to code anything. If you are curious check https://ckeditor.com/blog/Lessons-learned-from-creating-a-ri...

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Re:Slate JS – A customizable framework for building rich tex... by DougBTX on Thursday November 15, 2018 @04:37AM (#18458032)

Do they have any docs covering what's supported on mobile?

Edit: reading through their issue tracker, looks like they're going to make a good go at it, but it is hard: https://github.com/ianstormtaylor/slate/issues/2062#issuecom...

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