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Ask HN: Best modern web WYSIWYG editor?
I haven't been using a WYSIWYG editor for some years in projects. Now I start a new project were I need/might need one.
What editor do you currently use? What is "the best"?
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I do think I'd prefer the editor to generate Markdown that I want to store, but it could generate "clean" HTML/XML/JSON too.
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I thought about a Javascript editor to be embedded in a website.
- warrenm 5y agoWhat kind of "WYSIWYG editor" are you looking for? Something that'll render Markdown as you type? There are a few Something that's more-or-less Dreamweaver...but on the web? Something like Google Docs?
- KingOfCoders 5y agoThanks I do think I'd prefer the editor to generate Markdown that I want to store, but it could generate "clean" HTML/XML/JSON too.
- codingdave 5y agoI don't know that it is "the best", but CKEditor 5 is what we use because of how flexible and extensible it is. It has a plugin that can convert it to using Markdown instead of HTML. Out-of-the-box, it likely isn't what you want, but if you learn how it and its plugin system works, you can make it what you want. Their team also is fairly awesome - as we've twisted it to our needs, their support folks have always been there for us to not only answer questions, but even going so far as to understand what we are trying to do, and having their dev staff send us sample code to help us out.
- KingOfCoders 5y agoWill take a look, thanks.
- mrrobotchicken 5y agoIn case you'd be interested, here's a blog post that summarizes all the Markdown capabilities of CKEditor 5. https://ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor-5-the-best-open-source-Markdown-editor/ https://ckeditor.com/blog/CKEditor-5-the-best-open-source-Ma...
- ztc 5y agoWebflow? Not sure if they generate Markdown, but they can export HTML/CSS/JS
- cpach 5y agoProseMirror might be worth looking in to: https://prosemirror.net/examples/markdown/ https://prosemirror.net/examples/markdown/
- KingOfCoders 5y agoWill take a look, thanks.
- enhdless 5y agoQuill is JS-based and customizable: https://quilljs.com/ https://quilljs.com/
- gitgud 5y agoQuill.js is simple and highly extensible. It has a nice clean look too. The best part is it's, plugin architecture
- KingOfCoders 5y agoDo you know if Quill can output Markdown? I haven't found something definitive.
- gitgud 5y agoQuill outputs HTML, you could probably wire-up a html-2-md to convert the output from quill.
- bigbassroller 5y agoTinyMCE is what Ive been using. Its what WordPress uses too.
- andfrob 5y agoTiny founder here. You can definitely get what you're looking for in TinyMCE! And it has a great team behind it :)
- armchairhacker 5y agoToastUI editor. Easy to embed, supports Markdown and WYSIWYG.
- nicbou 5y agoDefinitely not Redactor. It has the same bugs it had 4 years ago, and there is no place to report them. The redactor team never returned my emails.