# nytimes/ice

track changes with javascript

Repository: https://github.com/nytimes/ice
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/nytimes-ice
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Last push: 2024-06-21T16:33:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5369, "days_push": 803, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1713, forks 190 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:26.056923+00:00)

## What it is
Ice is a JavaScript library that implements track changes (insert/delete tracking with accept/reject) for any contenteditable element on the web. Built by The New York Times CMS group, it powers the newsroom's article editing tools and includes plugins for TinyMCE and WordPress.

## Use cases
- add track changes to a contenteditable editor
- track multi-user inserts and deletes in a web text editor
- accept and reject edits programmatically in rich text
- get clean HTML content without change-tracking markup
- integrate revision tracking into TinyMCE or WordPress editors
- track copy-pasted content in an editable region

## When to choose
- you need Word-style track changes in a browser-based contenteditable editor
- you use TinyMCE or WordPress and want revision tracking plugins
- you need a mature API for accepting/rejecting changes and cleaning content

## When to avoid
- you need real-time collaborative editing with operational transforms or CRDTs
- your editor is not DOM/contenteditable-based (e.g., canvas or native mobile text fields)
- you need a fully maintained library with active development and modern build tooling

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: editor, ui-components, plugin-system
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors, cms
- platform: browser
- tags: track-changes, contenteditable, rich-text-editor, tinymce-plugin, wordpress-plugin, collaborative-editing, javascript

## Member repositories
- nytimes/ice (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:26.056923+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 2026-08-30T03:34:43.479939+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/nytimes/ice (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:26.056923+00:00, sha 7d4e903bfb4e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.