ianstormtaylor/slate

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31748 stars · 3309 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Slate is a completely customizable framework for building rich text editors on top of React, inspired by Draft.js, ProseMirror, and Quill. All of its logic is implemented as plugins, making it a pluggable implementation of contenteditable that can power editors like those in Medium, Dropbox Paper, or Google Docs.

Use cases

• build a rich text editor for a web app
• create a Medium-style writing experience in React
• add markdown shortcuts and formatting to a textarea replacement
• build a collaborative document editor
• implement mentions, tables, and embeds in a text editor
• customize every aspect of a contenteditable editor
• serialize editor content to HTML or markdown

When to choose

• you need deep customization of editor behavior and rendering
• you are building with React and want full control over the document model
• you need advanced features like collaborative editing, decorations, or custom elements
• existing editors like Quill or Draft.js are too constrained for your use case

When to avoid

• you need a stable 1.0 API with no breaking changes (Slate is still in beta)
• you just need a simple drop-in WYSIWYG editor with minimal setup
• you are not using React and don't want to build React bindings yourself
• you cannot contribute fixes for advanced or buggy use cases

Facets

framework · maturity active

editor frontend-framework ui-components plugin-system markdown serialization web-development frontend text-editors developer-tools browser rich-text-editor contenteditable wysiwyg react typescript beta javascript web

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