On: Slate JS – A customizable framework for building r...

[ergo14]

"Built on top of react", sorry at least for now it is too big of a dependency for most projects that are not react based. IMO that disqualifies it from being "framework for building rich text editors".

[migueloller → ergo14]

The core actually doesn’t rely on React at all, allowing interop with any front-end framework, or even vanilla JS. The current plugins provided officially are React plugins, but other plugins can be built for Vue, Angular, etc.

[ergo14 → migueloller]

I opened package.json I can see:

    "react": "^16.4.1",
    "react-dom": "^16.4.1",
    "react-emotion": "^9.2.4",
    "react-hot-loader": "^3.1.3",
    "react-portal": "^4.1.5",
    "react-router-dom": "^4.3.1",
    "react-values": "^0.3.0",

Looks like it requires react+vdom to me to be functional, Core has a peer dependency on react too.

[migueloller → ergo14]

It does at the moment based on the manifest, but after exploring the source, it's clear that this can easily be changed.

[wiktor_walc → ergo14]

If you are looking for a completely framework-agnostic rich text editor, then check CKEditor 5 (https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/). It comes with it's own UI library which you can swap freely with any other UI thanks a to highly decoupled architecture.

[sbr464 → ergo14]

Which framework (or non) are you using, if not react? Just curious, or what would be a better (web related) base?

[ergo14 → sbr464]

"Better" is a subjective thing. Currently I use lit-element base class for web components, but I plan to try stencil and vue to see how it feels like. At work we also use react for some projects.

[sbr464 → ergo14]

I agree, thanks for sharing notes.

[neya → ergo14]

Oh, thanks for pointing that out, I totally missed it. I use VueJS, so this would be a pass from me.

[ergo14 → neya]

I think prosemirror is a good option here, it is framework agnostic solution from codemirror author (I did not use it personally yet).