RArafram·Sep 24, 2025
Why not Monaco? It works great.
https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor
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monaco-editor
A browser based code editor
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 1 | 10 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 11 | 2 | 9 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
49 sources> Limited mobile support, Ace Editor (should just be Monaco) and lack of proper error outputs.
Monaco doesn't work on mobile by design, so people use Ace on mobile.
At least the last time I checked GitHub[0].
[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor/issues/246
In Show HN: I made a HTMX Playground 100% in the browservisual studio is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode
i remember using their monaco editor as well (https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor), a really powerful editor & the very same used by VS Code (i think you can even get at the AST for TypeScript, for example, in the browser if you poke around deep enough)
crazy cool stuff, and most definitely OSS!!!
In Show HN: Open-source alternatives to tools You pay forVSCode is based on Monaco https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor.
In Vscode.dev: Local Development with Cloud ToolsCodemirror & vue. Chances are if you're using a code editor in a web app it's either Microsoft's Monaco [0] or CodeMirror [1], which is maintained by Marijn Haverbeke
[0] https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor
[1] https://codemirror.net/
In Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startupMonaco does not support mobile (touch) use, but CodeMirror does actively maintain mobile (touch) support.
https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor/issues/246
In Show HN: I made an in-browser code editor with code replay and REPLSince you're the author of Bangle.io and it seems the latter is based on bangle.dev[0] which in turn is based on ProseMirror(?), why did you decide to make Bangle's interface look like that of VS Code / Monaco[1]? At first I thought this was just VS Code running in the browser.
Other than that, it looks pretty promising. I'll definitely be following the project! :) (By the way, I can't find the "install" button on app.bangle.io that is mentioned in the FAQ.)
On a different note, IMO using Electron for an app is not a bad choice per se. It's just that editors written in web technologies usually suck because they are so slow compared to, say, Vim/Emacs/Sublime. Is ProseMirror really that much better (faster) than Monaco/VS Code? If not, what's the benefit of using Bangle over Marktext? (Sure, running Marktext/Electron will use up additional
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RAM compared to running Bangle in an existing browser. But to be honest CPU load is much more important to me.)
[0]: https://github.com/bangle-io/bangle.dev
[1]: https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor , https://vscode.dev/
They still using Monaco by default (I just signed in and checked). For what it is worth, Monaco used to have zero support for mobile, but recently got much better: https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor/issues/246#issuec...
I tested out Code Server (vscode via the web) on an ipad recently, and it worked surprisingly well.
In Replit.com (YC W18) raises $80M Series BIf you're ever looking to support TypeScript eventually, the Monaco editor (https://github.com/Microsoft/monaco-editor) is your place to go. This is the same codebase that powers VS Code, yet is browser compatible and can come with all the Intellisense you need!
EDIT: Actually it probably supports a variety languages
In Udemy S-1 IPOMonaco is the engine that powers VS Code. It’s super neat you can just embed it.
https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor
In How an Anti-TypeScript “JavaScript developer” like me became a TypeScript fanWhat I meant was this:
"Please note that this repository contains no source code for the code editor, it only contains the scripts to package everything together and ship the monaco-editor npm module."
https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor
In CodeMirror 6I don't think so, Microsoft wanted to fork electron in the past to replace Chromium with edgeHTML, but it didn't happen. VSCode is powered by Monaco Editor github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor, and VSCode feels snappier than let's say Atom, probably because of Typescript.
In Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?Is the browser editing powered by Monaco or something else entirely? https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor
Both repl.it and codesandbox.io seem to be Monaco based. This seems to have better support for VS Code extensions than what's available in Monaco.
In GitHub CodespacesOn desktop this is [monaco-editor](https://github.com/microsoft/monaco-editor)
It's actually the same editor behind VSCode but this is a version that runs in the browser rather than Electron
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