kindsoft/kindeditor
Try Lake, a new editor I developed observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
10/100
- Activity 79
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
Flags: archived
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5262
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 126
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1898 stars · 599 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
KindEditor is a lightweight, open-source (LGPL), cross-browser WYSIWYG HTML editor that converts standard textareas into rich text editing fields. It is written in JavaScript and runs in the browser.
Use cases
- embed a wysiwyg rich text editor in a web page
- convert a textarea into an html editor
- let users format content without writing html
- add a lightweight rich text editor to a cms form
- cross-browser html editing for legacy web apps
When to choose
- you maintain a legacy project already using KindEditor
- you need a very lightweight, dependency-free WYSIWYG editor for an older browser stack
When to avoid
- starting a new project - the README states it is no longer maintained and will not be upgraded
- you need modern editor features or ongoing bug fixes - consider the author's successor, Lake
- you need framework integrations like React or Vue
Facets
library · maturity abandoned
editor ui-components web-development frontend text-editors browser wysiwyg rich-text-editor html-editor textarea unmaintained javascript
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/kindsoft/kindeditor · fetched 2026-08-28 · c9211ea70180
- homepage: https://lakejs.org/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 6d279ac3e17e
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| kindsoft/kindeditor | main | 10 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="kindsoft/kindeditor")
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