Lexical
Lexical is an extensible text editor infrastructure that focuses on reliability, accessibility and performance. It works compatible with external UI roofs thanks to its plugin-based architecture and invariant status model. JSON offers Yjs-based real-time co-editing features with data import/export in Markdown and HTML formats.
Lexical
100facebook · CMS & No-Code Builders
Common commercial products in this category: Contentful, Webflow, Sanity
- With Yjs integration, you add real-time joint editing feature to your project
- Using the official React bindings, you give your application the ability to edit text
- You provide content import and export in JSON, Markdown or HTML formats
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
“Thanks for the pointer. His comparison of Draft vs Lexical makes a lot of sense. I'm keener to understand the different between Prosemirror vs Lexical. He mentions that he pulled the best ideas from libs like Prosemirror. I'm curious how Lexical is an improvement over…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
“I don't think ProseMirror has taken a bad approach. I think we've just taken a different approach when it comes to the design of things. In Lexical, you rarely concern yourself with the DOM – and typically you deal with Lexical's node API directly and that's really all you…”
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