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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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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 7:24:48 PM UTC.

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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

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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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josephg·Oct 11, 2018
waves Y'all are talking about me. I was indeed on the wave team, although I joined Wave right near the end. (And then I stayed on to help opensource the whole thing.) We wrote ShareDB at Lever[1], which was in the 2012 YC batch (iirc). We wrote it to allow realtime collaborative editing in our application of all our data fields by default. I'm still really proud of that work. ShareDB primarily uses JSON-OT[2], which lets you do realtime OT over arbitrary application data. The lever team has been maintaining & improving sharedb for the last few years, which is really lovely to see as I've moved on to other projects. One nice thing about OT is that its much easier to implement. The original quilljs author (Jason Chen) wrote the rich text OT implementation. ShareDB works with any OT code (so long as operations can be JSON stringified / parse
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d). And its all hooked up in quill, which is super neat. And looking at the quill github[3], it looks like David Greenspan has been maintaining quill recently. David Greenspan is one of the original authors of Etherpad, which is one of the first web based text OT engines. [1] https://lever.co/ [2] https://github.com/ottypes/json0 [3] https://github.com/quilljs/quill
In Real Differences Between OT and CRDT for Co-Editors

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