facebook/lexical
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #61 among Web repositories tracked this week, and #61 over the last 30 days; #628 of 2,794 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 22%).
4 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 19 days ago, with 452 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #83 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 7, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides an extensible JavaScript text editor framework focused on reliability, accessibility, and performance.
- Offers a highly extensible architecture enabling developers to build scalable, custom text editing experiences with a best-in-class developer experience.
- Use for building rich text editors in React applications with easy plugin integration and state management.
- Use for creating custom, performant contenteditable editors in any DOM-based web framework beyond React.
- Use for implementing complex editor features like undo/redo, commands, and node transforms with immutable editor state management.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
Lexical is an extensible JavaScript web text-editor framework with an emphasis on reliability, accessibility, and performance. Lexical aims to provide a best-in-class developer experience, so you can easily prototype and build features with confidence. Combined with a highly extensible architecture, Lexical allows developers to create unique text editing experiences that scale in size and functionality.
For documentation and more information about Lexical, be sure to visit the Lexical website.
Note: Lexical is not only limited to React. Lexical can support any underlying DOM based library once bindings for that library have been created.
Below is an example of a basic plain text editor using
lexicaland@lexical/react(try it yourself).
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
Forks
2.2K+42
Open issues
332-13
Compared with peers in Web
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 18, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MadsLorentzen/ai-job-search | 60.6K | +12.8K | 60 | 1 day ago |
| anomalyco/opencode | 220.2K | +6.8K | 75 | today |
| hmjz100/LinkSwift | 27.1K | +4.4K | 75 | 246 days ago |
| YuJunZhiXue/dsh-purge | 8.9K | +2.9K | 55 | 8 days ago |
| mksglu/context-mode | 31.8K | +2.3K | 75 | 115 days ago |
| facebook/lexical | 24.0K | +0 | 75 | 19 days ago |
| Category median | 31.8K | +4.4K | 75 | — |
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