# kindsoft/kindeditor

Try Lake, a new editor I developed

Repository: https://github.com/kindsoft/kindeditor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kindeditor
Homepage: https://lakejs.org/
Language: JavaScript
License: LGPL-2.1
License Family: copyleft
Archived: true
Last push: 2026-04-29T04:52:25+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 79, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5262, "days_push": 126, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1898, forks 599 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:51.247725+00:00)

## What it is
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- starting a new project - the README states it is no longer maintained and will not be upgraded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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: editor, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors
- platform: browser
- tags: wysiwyg, rich-text-editor, html-editor, textarea, unmaintained, javascript

## Member repositories
- kindsoft/kindeditor (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.247725+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 2026-08-30T03:12:46.656881+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/kindsoft/kindeditor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.247725+00:00, sha c9211ea70180)
  - homepage: https://lakejs.org/ (fetched 2026-08-29T10:51:48.844247+00:00, sha 6d279ac3e17e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.