Re:Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing colla...
by egonschiele on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @12:59PM
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Have you tried using Lexical? I found it to be very buggy and ended up replacing it with Quill.
Re:Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing colla...
by tin7in on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:09AM
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Would you mind elaborating on Lexical? Which parts did you find buggy?
Re:Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing colla...
by dimmke on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:12PM
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I'm going to be honest, I did this evaluation several months ago and I don't remember all of the exact points. If I remember:
* I did not like that it was an alternative to a different Facebook rich text editor (draft.js)
* Very React focused (makes sense, it's a Facebook/Meta project) - even applying concepts. Here's an excerpt from their site: "If you've used React Hooks before, you can think of $ functions as being something that follows a similar pattern. These are functions that show their intent as to where they can or cannot be used."
I don't want to use React Hooks or things designed to be like React Hooks.
* Newer and less features/polished. Looking at their official project site, there's way less features already available. That means more custom code you have to write.
* No standard schema/for formatting rich content
Re:Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing colla...
by JimDabell on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @01:35PM
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It doesn't include Lexical, but GitLab did a detailed comparison of rich text editors a while back and settled on Tiptap. Their write-ups are pretty detailed:
Re:Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing colla...
by patrickbaber on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @02:16PM
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Thanks for the links to the discussion, I wasn't aware of it. Seems like a nice long read and find out what others think about us. I will read it.
Re:Launch HN: Tiptap (YC S23) – Toolkit for developing colla...
by patrickbaber on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @01:15AM
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The first link shows a discussion that started in July 2020, when Tiptap was only available in version 1. The new major version 2, which is a complete rewrite, was in development. The biggest drawback the GitLab engineers had was the lack of a test suite in Tiptap 1. That's understandable, because as a key component of your application, testing is necessary to ensure that you catch breakable changes. Tiptap 2 does just that. [1]
Do you mind expanding on this? I've been comparing the two and found the lexical data model easier to understand.