[HN Gopher] Show HN: Edtr.io - Intuitive web editor, open source...
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Show HN: Edtr.io - Intuitive web editor, open source and fully
adaptable
Author : SplishCrew
Score : 84 points
Date : 2020-02-29 17:11 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| monikgandhi wrote:
| Is it possible to embed the editor on a web page?
| inyono wrote:
| Yes, it's Backend-agnostic and designed to be embeddable into
| any web app. It's basically an editor framework to define your
| own editor and you write the glue code to your web app.
| fourstar wrote:
| TBH my suggestion is to work on making this more clear of who
| it's for. Maybe add a comparison to other current solutions
| out there, since at first I was a bit confused what it's
| trying to do. Maybe use like intro.js or something for it.
| leshokunin wrote:
| This is really nice. One note: the landing page doesn't mention
| the MIT license or commercial use. I had to go to the repo to
| figure it out.
|
| Would love to look into integrating this editor in our email
| client. Is there an easy way for us to chat?
| inyono wrote:
| Yes, landing page only mentions Open Source, maybe we should
| clarify that.
|
| You can reach us at edtr-io@splish.dev
| leshokunin wrote:
| Are you on discord or matrix by any chance?
| inyono wrote:
| Nope, sorry. If you send us an email, we can work something
| out :)
| tdhttt wrote:
| ~~Why does one have to send an email just to ask about
| license?~~
|
| Edit: As people had pointed out, that they were asking
| for chat to integrate it into the email client. Sorry for
| the confusion.
| inyono wrote:
| As specified in their comment and in our GitHub
| repository, the code is licensed under MIT.
| hombre_fatal wrote:
| They were sharing their email address because upstream
| commenter asks "is there a way we can chat?"
| indigodaddy wrote:
| So can I put this on my site to kind of make a cms for my site to
| add pages or blogs/blog posts etc?
| inyono wrote:
| Kinda. You can integrate it into your existing CMS to make the
| editing (for your end users) easier, especially for "enriched"
| content (think interactive content, complex layout)
| jsf01 wrote:
| So this is built on Slate--what does it bring to the table that
| you can't do with Slate out of the box?
| inyono wrote:
| Core contributor of Edtr.io here:
|
| Slate works well for editing text. Anything with a more
| complicated layout / UX gets really messy though, since with
| Slate, you always have to deal with the DOM / Slate's wrapper
| around contenteditable. And at least before Slate 0.50+, we (&
| the developers of Schul-Cloud independently of us) ran always
| in bugs, etc. This is why Edtr.io (similarly to ReactPages, fka
| ORY Editor) builds it own state management & layouting outside
| of Slate. And let Slate do what they do best, editing rich-
| text.
| fourstar wrote:
| Here's the problem relying on slate (I've used it and all the
| others [quill, ckeditor, etc etc]) -- you are also relying on
| Ian Storm Taylor and he's known for going on a streak and re-
| writing things in a breaking manner. IMO you should just
| build the entire thing yourself.
| inyono wrote:
| That's one of the reasons we only rely on Slate for our
| text plugin. So we could swap Slate for some different
| rich-text editor in the future if we need to. Though I have
| to say, we are very happy with Slate.
| fourstar wrote:
| Nice. I honestly have been looking for something like
| this for awhile. All the examples I found with slate were
| either insufficient or outdated (i.e. canner editor) --
| and in a focus on speed (being a solo founder), I
| couldn't compromise. I'm going to try to implement this
| for my editor on my site. Would be cool to be able to
| publish content with custom components (closest I could
| find for CKEditor [which I'm using] is: https://ckeditor.
| com/docs/ckeditor5/latest/framework/guides/...) -- but
| the implementation for that is rather clunky (more so on
| the render side -- e.g. how do I save the data in my
| database such that I know which components to call? CSS
| classes? data attributes?) So the underlying structure of
| having JSON for the data structure with Slate (and now
| this) gives me more confidence as a dev.
| inyono wrote:
| Would love to hear from you on how it goes :)
| andybak wrote:
| Layouts seem broken. Dialogs that are mostly empty space and
| icons that overlap borders.
| tobr wrote:
| Not sure how it's pronounced, `ed-trio`?
|
| What is a "web editor"? Is that establish as terminology for this
| type of wyswiyg editor?
|
| Does it or doesn't it support mobile? It mostly doesn't work but
| with some fiddly stubbornness I was able to get a few of the
| controls to do something.
| inyono wrote:
| It's pronounced Editor IO.
|
| Web editor in the sense that the editor runs as a web app, and
| the default rendering output is React (although other output
| formats are possible).
|
| Mobile kinda works (minimum goal is to let users do simple
| edits from mobile), but we mostly focused on the desktop so
| far.
| raidicy wrote:
| This looks really cool but I think maybe an image on the landing
| page might help
| iforgotmypass wrote:
| I was thinking of building something similar. Any other
| alternatives to similar solutions?
| curo wrote:
| Prosemirror seems to be one of the most pluggable block editors
| out there. For the vue.js community, tiptap is built on
| prosemirror. Slate (which this is built on) is good too.
| bhl wrote:
| Slate is in beta and isn't stable yet last time I heard.
| inyono wrote:
| IMHO still the best there is, at least in the React space.
| But yeah, stuck in beta for what feels like forever.
| joking wrote:
| Gutenberg, it can be decoupled from Wordpress. But you can
| start searching for tinymce alternatives and you will found
| hundreds
| sam_goody wrote:
| There are LOTS of competitors, but of course, not all are
| apples to apples.
|
| Here is a partial list of some of the more active wysiwyg
| editors: Quill: https://quilljs.com
| Slate: https://www.slatejs.org Trumbowyg:
| https://alex-d.github.io/Trumbowyg ContentTools:
| http://getcontenttools.com SummerNote:
| https://summernote.org Squire:
| https://github.com/neilj/Squire Editor.js:
| https://codex.so/editor ProseMirror:
| https://prosemirror.net/
|
| I have personally been happy with Quill (the have their own
| system for storing text which is interesting.
|
| Many of these have active branches, especially in Vue or React
| etc.
| fourstar wrote:
| Best I could find would be:
| https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/czi-prosemirror but they
| kinda stopped working on it.
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