# react-monaco-editor/react-monaco-editor

Monaco Editor for React.

Repository: https://github.com/react-monaco-editor/react-monaco-editor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/react-monaco-editor
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: react, monaco-editor, editor
Last push: 2026-08-11T22:34:47+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 69/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 16, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3649, "days_push": 22, "days_rel": 412, "gap_med": 173, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4208, forks 388 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:39.053667+00:00)

## What it is
A React wrapper component around Microsoft's Monaco Editor, the code editor that powers VS Code. It provides a declarative React component with props for language, theme, value, and editor lifecycle callbacks.

## Use cases
- embed a code editor in a react app
- add syntax-highlighted code editing to a web app
- build an online IDE or playground with react
- use the vscode monaco editor in react
- let users edit json or javascript in the browser
- create a dark-themed code editor component

## When to choose
- you use React and want Monaco Editor with a simple declarative component API
- you need a full-featured code editor (IntelliSense, multi-language, themes) in a web app
- you want a well-maintained, widely used wrapper with npm distribution

## When to avoid
- you use Vue, Svelte, or another framework instead of React
- you need a lightweight editor without Monaco's large bundle size and webpack configuration
- you target server-side rendering without careful setup, since Monaco requires browser APIs

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: editor, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: react, monaco-editor, code-editor, typescript, vscode-editor, webpack, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- react-monaco-editor/react-monaco-editor (main) score 69

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.053667+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 2026-08-29T18:22:30.698342+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/react-monaco-editor/react-monaco-editor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:39.053667+00:00, sha 05bfddea8c29)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/react-monaco-editor (fetched 2026-08-29T09:12:57.396768+00:00, sha 024a29928a51)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.