Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by dmitryminkovsky 1785 days ago
Same experience here. They changed APIs with no warning at version 0.46, breaking whatever spotty iOS/Android support they had. That’s not a knock against them: mobile contentEditable is terribly difficult to get right. But the surprise total deprecation of their stable branch was uncool to say the least, even if they did warn the software was beta. I heard Slate raised money to fix Android support, but whether or not that’s true, the whole thing was a really bad experience.

I also wholeheartedly recommend ProseMirror. It’s a bit complicated in some ways, but it works across platforms, is used in production widely at big companies despite sort of flying under the radar, and has been stable for years. If you’re looking for a fully baked React integration, TipTap[0] seems really nice, or if something minimalist then a plug for my own integration: use-prosemirror[1].

[0] https://www.tiptap.dev

[1] https://github.com/dminkovsky/use-prosemirror
1 comments
emptysea 1785 days ago
Never seen tiptip before, looks pretty slick.

At work we need only the most basic customization (some inline spans for template vars) and we've cobbled together a Draft.JS implementation that's pretty buggy and has random runtime errors (unhandled nulls internal to the Draft.JS code).

link
dmitryminkovsky 1785 days ago
Yes, I looked at TipTap for a while recently and the API looks like a really nice layer on top of ProseMirror.

Draft.js was another far out experience for me. I built the first attempt at my app with it, only to discover that Draft.js didn't work on Android. It was buggy on iOS, but on Android just didn't work. If you've been using Draft.js you probably remember Android support landing with the huge PR from Fabio M. Costa at GoDaddy[0], but by then I had already decided I needed to find something else. That PR actually led me to ProseMirror:

> This approach is the one used by Prosemirror (see https://github.com/ProseMirror/prosemirror-view/blob/master/...), which is the only Rich Text Editor I've tried that works well on Android. [1]

When I looked at ProseMirror, I was spooked by the apparent complexity. Tried Quill, Trix (worked great, but uncustomizable) and then went with Slate, only to have the above-mentioned experience. Remembered that comment on the PR, and redid my editor in ProseMirror, which finally was something that worked. Thank you Marijn and the ProseMirror community. It's been a journey with these editors.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/pull/2035

[1] https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/pull/2035#issue-2613622...

link