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Squire
TypeScript2012–2024
fastmail / Squire

Squire

The rich text editor for arbitrary HTML.

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What it is

The rich text editor for arbitrary HTML.

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:03:16 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year10 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2012-11-02 13:56:16 UTC to 2024-03-27 18:48:40 UTC.

01232012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024

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
20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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sam_goody·Feb 29, 2020
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.
In Show HN: Edtr.io – Intuitive web editor, open source and fully adaptable
leeoniya·Feb 22, 2016
Is there a specific benefit to having this built on top of React rather than just wrapping an existing editor's API [1][2][3]? Is it cross-usability for React-native or just NIH syndrome? I'm not sure how I feel about re-implementing all the things and introducing a React dependency to everything. The lock-in seems okay if React really is the final word in UI frameworks (though it is very large and currently very slow). I am certainly not in this camp, however. [1] https://github.com/neilj/Squire [2] https://github.com/quilljs/quill [3] https://github.com/zenoamaro/react-quill
In Draft.js – Rich Text Editor Framework for React
manigandham·Oct 19, 2015
Great timing, we were just looking for a new editor for our project. Since there are so many choices, here's a list of everything mentioned in this post. Trix - https://github.com/basecamp/trix - demo here: http://trix-editor.org/ by basecamp and used in v3, handles files/images well Squire - https://github.com/neilj/Squire - used in FastMail webmail, better for text than images ProseMirror - http://prosemirror.net/ - not great with images Scribe - https://github.com/guardian/scribe - by the Guardian team CKEditor - http://ckeditor.com/ - solid and very customizable, lots of plugins, a little dated in look/feel Quill - http://quilljs.com/ Summernote - http://summernote.org/ wysihtml - http://wysihtml.com/ Etherpad - http://etherpad.org/ - collaborative realtime editing TinyMCE - http://www.tinymce.com/ - older editor but still good Textb
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ox.IO - https://textbox.io/ - new from the owners of tinymce project Froala - https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor - solid editor, newer features like drag/drop images, v2 RC3 just released Redactor - http://imperavi.com/redactor/ - we used this in production but quality has gone down, v2 is half the functionality at 3x the price, not recommended anymore
In Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing
nmjenkins·Oct 19, 2015
Looks decent. The approach taken is the right one: we do something very similar with the Squire rich text editor (https://github.com/neilj/Squire) which I wrote for FastMail's webmail. Basically the browser can't be trusted to do any formatting itself, which is a slightly depressing state of affairs, especially as there has been zero improvements in this area for the last 5 years. I guess it's not shiny enough for browser devs to focus on. Looking through the code, a few things jumped out that should be looked at: * Native TreeWalker implementations are buggy in some browsers. In the end we decided it was safer to just implement the bit we needed ourselves (see comment at top of https://github.com/neilj/Squire/blob/master/source/TreeWalke...). * The HTML sanitisation using document.implementation doesn't account for DOM clobbering so is c
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urrently bypassable with the right malicious content. I recommend using https://github.com/cure53/DOMPurify for this rather than writing your own. It's tricky to get all the edge cases right, so better to use something that's been reviewed by several people (and in DOMPurify's case also undergone a formal security review). Again, we use this at FastMail as part of our webmail.
In Trix: A rich text editor for everyday writing

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