# liferay/alloy-editor

WYSIWYG editor based on CKEditor with completely rewritten UI

Repository: https://github.com/liferay/alloy-editor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/alloy-editor
Homepage: http://alloyeditor.com
Language: JavaScript
License: LGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: wedeploy
Last push: 2023-10-24T11:17:52+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4426, "days_push": 1044, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1408, forks 277 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:38.537186+00:00)

## What it is
AlloyEditor is a modern WYSIWYG rich-text editor built on top of CKEditor with a completely rewritten, context-aware UI built in React. It separates the editing core from the UI layer, allowing custom buttons, toolbars, and even entirely different UI frameworks while reusing CKEditor plugins.

## Use cases
- embed a wysiwyg editor in a web app
- let users edit rich text content in the browser
- add a modern-looking content editor to a cms
- paste images from clipboard or drag and drop into an editor
- customize editor toolbars and buttons
- reuse existing ckeditor plugins with a modern ui

## When to choose
- you want CKEditor's editing power with a modern, minimal UI
- you need a React-based editor UI with customizable toolbars and buttons
- you want to reuse existing CKEditor plugins
- you need image pasting, drag-and-drop, and camera capture in an editor

## When to avoid
- you need a fully headless or plain-text editor
- you require support for modern browsers beyond IE11-era compatibility targets
- you want an actively developed project with frequent updates
- you prefer a non-CKEditor editing engine

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: editor, ui-components, plugin-system
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors, cms
- platform: browser, cross-platform
- tags: wysiwyg, ckeditor, react, rich-text, content-editing, web-server

## Member repositories
- liferay/alloy-editor (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:38.537186+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:38:35.956775+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/liferay/alloy-editor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:38.537186+00:00, sha e43ac5fb82cd)
  - homepage: http://alloyeditor.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:52:19.493855+00:00, sha 655833688ad7)
  - site_page: https://alloyeditor.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T11:52:19.496298+00:00, sha 427f185ce089)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.