# mycolorway/simditor

An Easy and Fast WYSIWYG Editor

Repository: https://github.com/mycolorway/simditor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/simditor
Homepage: http://simditor.tower.im
Language: JavaScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: rich-text-editor, wysiwyg-editor, wysiwyg, javascript, coffeescript
Last push: 2024-02-25T03:52:36+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4618, "days_push": 920, "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 5004, forks 786 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:04.531968+00:00)

## What it is
Simditor is a browser-based WYSIWYG rich text editor built on jQuery, providing a toolbar-driven editing experience for web applications. It supports features like image/file uploading, hotkeys, placeholders, and a floating toolbar, and is used in production by the Tower project management app.

## Use cases
- add a rich text editor to a web form
- let users write formatted blog posts in the browser
- embed a WYSIWYG comment or message composer
- upload and insert images while editing content
- replace a plain textarea with formatted text editing

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, easy-to-integrate WYSIWYG editor for a jQuery-based web app
- you want a simple toolbar-based editor with image upload support
- you need to support older browsers like IE10+

## When to avoid
- you want a modern framework-native editor (React/Vue) without jQuery dependencies
- you need heavy customization, collaborative editing, or a large plugin ecosystem
- the project appears to be in maintenance mode with limited ongoing development

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ui-components, editor, file-upload
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors
- platform: browser
- tags: wysiwyg, rich-text-editor, jquery, javascript, content-editing, web-server

## Member repositories
- mycolorway/simditor (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.531968+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 2026-08-29T18:17:34.847167+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mycolorway/simditor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:04.531968+00:00, sha a1a804fe7d0c)
  - homepage: http://simditor.tower.im (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:48.400572+00:00, sha fd3b267084a4)
  - site_page: https://simditor.tower.im/docs/doc-usage.html (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:48.409832+00:00, sha ed48cee407a4)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/simditor (fetched 2026-08-29T08:58:48.412093+00:00, sha 67a5f097d988)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.