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draft-js

A React framework for building text editors.

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

A React framework for building text editors.

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Where it is used

No documented product use was verified in the last source check.

What people are saying

ProseMirror is great. A few months back i was looking for a rich text editor for use in an isomorphic js webapp that uses react. I probably spent more time researching and…

nsfmc used a recommendation phrase. One indexed comment matches. This is a phrase match, not a verdict.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 2:59:53 AM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year18 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-02-22 19:55:07 UTC to 2022-04-14 11:41:11 UTC.

0123452016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404

What Hacker News says

5 sources
nsfmc·Feb 22, 2016Recommendation phrase
ProseMirror is great. A few months back i was looking for a rich text editor for use in an isomorphic js webapp that uses react. I probably spent more time researching and testing out other libraries than i did getting prosemirror working in our app (and even ended up even contributing back some code in the process). Highly recommended, i think for most cases, prosemirror strikes a good balance between sensible defaults and easy integration. Where it falls down is mostly in documentation, which is 100% understandable, since it was crowdfunded(!), but the code is very legible and amenable to most kinds of webapps. Where i suspect draft.js probably shines is having tighter client/data boundaries and code that natively expects to be rendered isomorphically, so calls to window/document are probably more tightly managed given that the whole vi
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ew layer uses react and likely expects to be rendered on the server. That said, ProseMirror has a 100% fantastic "give me the current ast rendered as markdown" which, in my case at least, was the thing i wanted the most and that ProseMirror supplied handily. Draft.js will have you roll your own[1], but at least the draft.js api is fairly friendly. There's obviously more than enough room for both projects, but i think that for react based projects, draft.js will feel like a more natural fit even if it will take more effort in the short term until more functionality builds up around it. [1]: https://github.com/facebook/draft-js/blob/06891490069d3ccfb8...
In Draft.js – Rich Text Editor Framework for React

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