Alex-D/Trumbowyg
A lightweight and amazing WYSIWYG JavaScript editor under 10kB observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
74/100
- Activity 88
- Release rhythm 40
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 15.5
- age_days: 5086
- days_rel: 549
- days_push: 74
- n_releases_24m: 3
Adoption not part of the score
4145 stars · 617 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Trumbowyg is a lightweight WYSIWYG rich-text editor for the web, built as a jQuery plugin and weighing only ~10kB gzipped. It generates clean, semantic HTML5 code, supports 45+ languages, and offers a customizable design and plugin API.
Use cases
- add a rich text editor to a blog comment form
- lightweight wysiwyg editor for a CMS
- let users format HTML content in a web app
- replace a heavy rich text editor with a small one
- jquery rich text editor with i18n support
- edit contenteditable rich text in the browser
When to choose
- you need a small, fast rich-text editor with minimal bundle size
- your project already uses jQuery
- you want clean semantic HTML output and easy localization
When to avoid
- you need a modern framework-native editor without jQuery
- you require advanced features like collaborative editing or complex tables
- you need a headless or fully unstyled editor
Facets
library · maturity stable
editor ui-components plugin-system web-development frontend text-editors browser wysiwyg rich-text-editor jquery-plugin contenteditable lightweight html-editor nodejs
3 sources
- readme: https://github.com/Alex-D/Trumbowyg · fetched 2026-08-28 · 35a38e30b0bc
- homepage: https://alex-d.github.io/Trumbowyg · fetched 2026-08-29 · 63b66e7bf84a
- registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/trumbowyg · fetched 2026-08-29 · 36a3b3710c74
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| Alex-D/Trumbowyg | main | 74 |
For agents
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