mammoth.js

discussion on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27957766/how-do-i-render... There are online viewers from MS and Google. They are only good though if you have no Electron offline scenario and want to send your data :-/ JavaScript conversion always has its limits: https://github.com/lalalic/docx2html — docx to html, most elements are supported, but project seems to be dead https://github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js — supports headings, lists, tables, endnotes, footnotes, images and text boxes https://www.npmjs.com/package/docx2html — Converts DOCX documents to HTML in the browser or nodejs, based on lalalic library, thus also dead https://github.com/artburkart/docx2html — apparently, works in the browser, also dead not sure, if there is a complete and supported project out there

I used to be a developer for some technical websites (publishing articles, blogs, newsletters, that sort of thing), mainly around SQL Server and .NET. Almost all of the authors used Microsoft Word, the main value being familiarity and using Track Changes. I came to appreciate Track Changes when I wrote or edited the occasional article, and I can't imagine it would be easy to find a replacement for the functionality that would work smoothly enough to justify convincing all the authors and editors to switch. Fortunately, the authors and editors were pretty good about using the house style in Word, meaning that the articles were semantically marked up. I wrote a converter that did a pretty good job of generating clean HTML from the source Word, mainly by mapping Word styles to the corresponding pieces of HTML. One of the more interesting cha