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We rewrote The New York Times' text editing library. Then we open sourced it (smoores.dev)
3 points by hysan on Feb 7, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


The original title was too long: “ We rewrote The New York Times’ text editing library. Then we open sourced it. Then we rewrote it again.”

Quick summary:

- The original NYT library is this one: https://github.com/nytimes/react-prosemirror

- This is the author’s rewrite: https://github.com/handlewithcarecollective/react-prosemirro...

- They rewrote ProseMirror’s renderer in React instead of having a layer sit between the two.

- The author answered questions over on Reddit and had good insight into how their rewrite compares to other ProseMirror based libraries: https://old.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/1ij7lmb/why_i_rebu...




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