sstur/react-rte

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

2863 stars · 428 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A pure React WYSIWYG rich text editor component built on Draft.js, designed as a drop-in textarea replacement with a formatting toolbar and HTML/Markdown value conversion. The project is explicitly deprecated, and its underlying Draft.js dependency has been archived by Facebook in favor of Lexical.

Use cases

• embed a rich text editor in a react app
• replace a textarea with a wysiwyg editor
• convert rich text content between html and markdown
• add a formatting toolbar to text input
• build a blog post or comment composer in react
• create value from html string in react editor

When to choose

• you are maintaining a legacy React codebase that already uses Draft.js or react-rte
• you need a textarea-like value/onChange API for rich text with HTML and Markdown serialization
• you need an isolated, self-contained editor component for an internal tool with no long-term maintenance concerns

When to avoid

• starting any new project - the README explicitly recommends alternatives like Lexical or TipTap instead
• you need actively maintained software with ongoing bug fixes and security patches
• you want long-term support, since Draft.js itself is archived and unmaintained
• your build setup cannot add a CSS loader or polyfills for older browsers

Facets

library · maturity abandoned

editor ui-components frontend web-development text-editors browser react draft-js wysiwyg rich-text contenteditable react-component deprecated textarea-replacement nodejs

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