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by samradelie 2630 days ago
We were draftjs, but it got very slow on larger texts. We're replacing with slate but it lacks some very needed textnode manipulation. Glancing at the editor and api, wow. Can't wait to have something simple (content editable) but with strong api backbone. Congrats!!!
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jorde 2630 days ago
Highly recommend Prosemirror. At least in my limited testing, it's much faster than Slate but you need a React wrapper for it
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Reinmar 2630 days ago
Did you try CKEditor 5? It's a modern rich-text editing framework with a rich API. However, it also comes with a lot of polished and ready-to-use features. You can read more on: https://ckeditor.com/ckeditor-5/.
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bojanz 2629 days ago
Since you mentioned CKEditor 5, I'll be bold enough to go a bit into off-topic.

CKEditor 5 is an incredibly impressive endeavour, and I've been following it with great interest. However, one of the things that separates it from the competition is the GPL license, which makes it impossible to use the editor in a permissively-licensed (Apache2/MIT) open source project. Your founder has indicated a readiness[1] to grant a custom license to such projects.

So, I'm wondering whether that is still the policy, and how that's been working out in practice. Have any projects taken you up on the offer? Have there been any unforeseen problems? What are the legal limitations imposed (on distributors/forks of the project, for example)?

[1]https://github.com/ckeditor/ckeditor5/issues/991#issuecommen...

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Reinmar 2629 days ago
Thanks for such positive feedback :)

Yes, the "Free for Open Source" initiative is up and running. For now, we didn't promote it a lot because we wanted to learn how it works, but from what I know, the custom license that we proposed is already used by a couple of projects.

Based on the feedback that we got so far, we're right now working on a simplified version of this license. Its initial version still had some restrictions which didn't work for Apache2/MIT projects with a commercial branch. Plus, it was simply too long for normal people :). We're removing these limitations. Once it will be polished, we will talk about it more officially on ckeditor.com.

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bojanz 2629 days ago
That's great to hear. Keep up the good work!
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