Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook

Re:Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook by trueadm on Monday June 20, 2022 @02:41PM (#31813967)

Sure thing. I actually wrote up a really detailed response to this on ProseMirror's discussion board:

https://discuss.prosemirror.net/t/differences-between-prosem...

Ultimately though, there are many similarities between the two – intentionally so. We were inspired by ProseMirror and some of its APIs and approaches. I think the biggest underlying differences are in how we tackle things from a DX perspective. We tried to bring a more composable API to making text editors work – from the plugin patterns, how updates and reads work, to how you listen for changes and react to them. Much of this was inspired by my prior work working on the React core team and from creating Inferno.

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Re:Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook by samwillis on Monday June 20, 2022 @03:28PM (#31814599)

Interesting you say DX is a large aspect of what you are going for. ProseMirror is awesome but the API can be somewhat complex for simple things (but at the same time incredibly powerful when you get to understand it). I absolutely love TipTap[0] which is providing a much more user friendly API on top of ProseMirror, along with a clean Plugin system.

Going to have to have a play with Lexical, excited to see Yjs support!

[0]: http://tiptap.dev

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Re:Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook by singaporecode on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @12:57AM (#31820055)

ProseMirror has some of the worst developer experience possible. I wasted so much time figuring out it’s convoluted API and abandoned it soon after.

It does apparently have the best live editing / collaboration features of all text editors out there.

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Re:Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook by samwillis on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:05AM (#31821478)

I would disagree on "worst developer experience possible", it has a very steep leaning curve, but once you grok it it makes a lot of sense.

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Re:Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook by chucky123 on Monday June 20, 2022 @07:43PM (#31817764)

Fundamental problem with Tiptap is its horrendous docs. If lexical can put out better docs, it is better than Tiptap automatically.

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