# jakiestfu/Medium.js

A tiny JavaScript library for making contenteditable beautiful (Like Medium's editor)

Repository: https://github.com/jakiestfu/Medium.js
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mediumjs
Homepage: http://jakiestfu.github.io/Medium.js/
Language: JavaScript
License Family: other
Last push: 2016-06-27T19:41:36+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": 4782, "days_push": 3719, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4379, forks 394 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:46.946755+00:00)

## What it is
A tiny JavaScript library that makes HTML contenteditable elements behave like Medium's beautiful editor, with rich text editing features. It provides a lightweight WYSIWYG editing experience for the browser.

## Use cases
- build a rich text editor in the browser
- make contenteditable fields behave like Medium's editor
- add WYSIWYG editing to a web app
- create inline editable article content
- implement clean paste and formatting behavior in contenteditable

## When to choose
- you want a tiny, dependency-free rich text editing layer over contenteditable
- you need Medium-style editing UX in a legacy or simple project

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained library with active support (last release 2016)
- you need a full-featured modern editor framework with plugin ecosystem
- you need mobile or accessibility guarantees

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: abandoned
- function: editor, ui-components, frontend-framework
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors
- platform: browser
- tags: contenteditable, wysiwyg, rich-text-editor, medium-clone, javascript

## Member repositories
- jakiestfu/Medium.js (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:46.946755+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 2026-08-29T18:21:18.569526+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/jakiestfu/Medium.js (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:46.946755+00:00, sha ef0894281236)
  - homepage: http://jakiestfu.github.io/Medium.js/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:09:45.431397+00:00, sha 44136fa355b3)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/medium.js (fetched 2026-08-29T09:09:45.433838+00:00, sha a1ebf3a07f57)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.