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quill

Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility

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REPOSITORY AT A GLANCE

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What it is

Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility

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Where it is used

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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, 5:05:26 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year30 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-05-08 19:27:17 UTC to 2024-04-22 11:23:45 UTC.

02462014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 0 submissions, 7 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 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): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 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): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 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
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
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 UTC404
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 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

From the project README

An excerpt from the repository, fetched Nov 13, 2026.

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Quill Rich Text Editor Documentation • Development • Contributing • Interactive Playground Quill is a modern rich text editor built for compatibility and extensibility. It was created by Jason Chen and Byron Milligan and actively maintained by Slab. To get started, check out https://quilljs.com/ for documentation, guides, and live demos! Quickstart Instantiate a new Quill object with a css selector for the div that should become the editor. <!-- Include Quill stylesheet --> <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/quill@2/dist/quill.snow.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <!-- Create the toolbar container --> <div id="toolbar"> <button class="ql-bold">Bold</button> <button class="ql-italic">Italic</button> </div> <!-- Create the editor container --> <div id="editor"> <p>Hello World!</p> <p>Some initial <strong>bold</strong> text</p> <p><br /></p> </div> <!-- Include the Quill library --> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/quill@2/dist/quill.js"></script> <!-- Initialize Quill editor --> <script> const quill = new Quill("#editor", { theme: "snow", }); </script> Take a look at the Quill website for more documentation, guides and live playground! Download npm install quill CDN <!-- Main Quill library --> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/quill@2/dist/quill.js"></script> <!-- Theme included stylesheets --> <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/quill@2/dist/quill.snow.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/quill@2/dist/quill.bubble.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <!-- Core build with no theme, formatting, non-essential modules --> <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/quill@2/dist/quill.core.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/quill@2/dist/quill.core.js"></script> Community Get help or stay up to date. Contribute on Issues Ask questions on Discussions License BSD 3-clause
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What Hacker News says

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thangalin·Dec 8, 2014
Fair enough. It takes a lot of time to: voluntarily find and download each editor, see how well (and easily) they integrate with the sample page, and perform the basic research. I readily admit that mistakes may have been made. FWIW, here are two pictures of the same page: - http://i.imgur.com/CThwDev.png (Quill) - http://i.imgur.com/FXiVmBd.png (Aloha) In addition to injecting superfluous markup, Quill also changes the font. Incidentally, the LICENSE file does not explicitly state that it is BSD-based. I admit that I did not read (very far) below the fold on either the Quill homepage or its Github page, but went directly to the LICENSE file. (Again, mostly because I don't want to waste a lot of time hunting for the same information across 30+ projects.) https://github.com/quilljs/quill/blob/develop/LICENSE As far as I have discovered, no
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other such comprehensive comparison exists. I trust readers will verify the information for themselves and hope that it may prove useful.
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yaddayadda·May 8, 2014
Quill's WYSIWYG + HTML<->MD bidirectional support (e.g. leeoniya's example) + ShareJS' operational transformation [1] == awesome collaborative JS-ish web editor stack Throw in a ShareJS script to autosave [2], an it's even more awesome! [1] http://sharejs.org/ [2] https://gist.github.com/josephg/1341527 Relevant Githubs: - https://github.com/quilljs/quill - https://github.com/josephg/ShareJS Edited: to account for leeoniya's explanation that follows
In Quill – An Open Source Rich Text Editor with an API

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