# Alex-D/Trumbowyg

A lightweight and amazing WYSIWYG JavaScript editor under 10kB

Repository: https://github.com/Alex-D/Trumbowyg
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/trumbowyg
Homepage: https://alex-d.github.io/Trumbowyg
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: trumbowyg, wysiwyg, wysiwyg-editor, jquery-plugin, lightweight, rich-text-editor
Last push: 2026-06-20T13:24:18+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 88, release rhythm 40, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5086, "days_push": 74, "days_rel": 549, "gap_med": 15.5, "n_releases_24m": 3}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4145, forks 617 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:36.363060+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: editor, ui-components, plugin-system
- domain: web-development, frontend, text-editors
- platform: browser
- tags: wysiwyg, rich-text-editor, jquery-plugin, contenteditable, lightweight, html-editor, nodejs

## Member repositories
- Alex-D/Trumbowyg (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:36.363060+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 2026-08-29T18:22:56.628478+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Alex-D/Trumbowyg (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:36.363060+00:00, sha 35a38e30b0bc)
  - homepage: https://alex-d.github.io/Trumbowyg (fetched 2026-08-29T09:14:08.417634+00:00, sha 63b66e7bf84a)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/trumbowyg (fetched 2026-08-29T09:14:08.426649+00:00, sha 36a3b3710c74)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.