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Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.

27 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 2 stories, 25 comments · first 2022-04-13 · latest 2026-07-03

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  1. …not in maintenance mode and continues to receive commits from contributors. 24k stars and counting. https://github.com/facebook/lexical
    comment by keepupnow · 2026-07-03 · in Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror
  2. Seems like the contribution graph is on the highest for long time: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/graphs/contributors?from... But Claude is playing part of it.
    comment by nicce · 2026-07-03 · in Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror
  3. I would be curios that what are the cons/pros for selecting this over Facebook's Lexical ( https://github.com/facebook/lexical )
    comment by nicce · 2026-07-03 · in Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror
  4. …Instagram) is goes also a similar direction: customizable, but it takes time to get used to it. [1] https://github.com/facebook/lexical
    comment by tauchunfall · 2025-02-10 · in We rewrote The NYT text editing library. Then we OSSd it. Then rewrote it again
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    Facebook/lexical: extensible text editor framework
    story by swyx · 2024-11-13 · 0 comments
  6. …format for your clients. For example the way they render lists is, in my opinion, simply wrong (see https://github.com/facebook/lexical/issues/2951 ). Or this https://github.com/facebook/lexical/issues/6269 . You also have the added…
    comment by YuukiRey · 2024-10-15 · in PayloadCMS: Open-Source, Fullstack Next.js Framework
  7. I remember using https://github.com/facebook/lexical for a project a year ago and mostly things worked our of the box. Any reason to prefer quill?
    comment by Recursing · 2024-04-19 · in Quill v2 – Rich text editor
  8. For a text editor, Lexical looks promising https://github.com/facebook/lexical
    comment by Bilal_io · 2022-09-11 · in Ask HN: Help me pick a front-end framework
  9. …They didn't bother themselves even to create at least some new plugin for it. Playground plugin: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/packages/lexic... Copy paste: https://github.com/ozanyurtsever/verbum/blob/bfac38815eb0057...…
    comment by elvin_d · 2022-06-22 · in Rich Text Editor for React
  10. Yes, we have something like this in @lexical/selection: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/af099ffd9f464b523d6...
    comment by acywatson · 2022-06-21 · in Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook
  11. …at which point you abstract all those copy/pasted targets into a script that takes an argument. [1] https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/package.json#L...
    comment by latchkey · 2022-06-20 · in Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook
  12. https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/5802651c24d88b2f7d2... > // Check for any random auto-added <br> elements, and remove them. > // These get added by the browser when we undo the above mutations > // and this can lead to a broken…
    comment by jitl · 2022-06-20 · in Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook
  13. …selection jumping is a well known issue with GBoard. Here's the logic for the mutation handling: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/packages/lexic...
    comment by trueadm · 2022-06-20 · in Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook
  14. …in on the repository every few weeks. However, there are many features that are still pending https://github.com/facebook/lexical/projects/1 . We need several of the features that are "V1.0" and we obviously need the stability of a 1.0…
    comment by rsstack · 2022-06-20 · in Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook
  15. …to try and detect common Android patterns. I'd search this module for references to Android: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/packages/lexic...
    comment by trueadm · 2022-06-20 · in Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook
  16. …please do! For those of you looking for the sourcecode for the playground, you can find it here: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/tree/main/packages/lexic... We also have a Discord channel you can check out: https://discord.gg/KmG4wQnnD9
    comment by trueadm · 2022-06-20 · in Lexical – a web text editor framework that powers Facebook
  17. No idea :D https://github.com/facebook/lexical/pull/1733
    comment by zurfyx · 2022-04-14 · in Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
  18. WAT? https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/4e57eb8d7e0ca00fe99...
    comment by mlajtos · 2022-04-14 · in Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
  19. Thanks for trying it out! Mind drafting a quick issue here so that we can have a look? https://github.com/facebook/lexical/issues
    comment by zurfyx · 2022-04-14 · in Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
  20. >Sure, but indicate that it's an alpha product Do you mean something like the banner on the README? https://github.com/facebook/lexical >They don't even have the decency to label it is such Do you mean something like the big banner on the…
    comment by acywatson · 2022-04-14 · in Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
  21. No docs yet - but this code pointer for physical files (plugin) may help https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/packages/lexic...
    comment by zurfyx · 2022-04-14 · in Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
  22. …sure to handle and flush these events accordingly. If you're curious, this is where it all starts - https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/packages/lexic...
    comment by zurfyx · 2022-04-14 · in Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
  23. …editor with built-in plugins does not take more than a few lines of code - see the playground code https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/packages/lexic... We already provide most common plugins out of the box (inc. lists and…
    comment by zurfyx · 2022-04-14 · in Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
  24. It would be awesome if you'd be willing to report them on GitHub :) https://github.com/facebook/lexical/issues/new?assignees=&la...
    comment by acywatson · 2022-04-14 · in Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
  25. Added an issue here: https://github.com/facebook/lexical/issues/1699 And, as a side note, great work on this project. I had previously built a wysiwyg system from Slate and a custom plugin system; Lexical seems like a solid progression and…
    comment by hiimshort · 2022-04-14 · in Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
  26. Yep, we have full support with Yjs. https://github.com/facebook/lexical/tree/main/packages/lexic...
    comment by trueadm · 2022-04-14 · in Facebook open sources Lexical, an extensible text editor library
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    Lexical is now open-source (web text-editor)
    story by lucis · 2022-04-13 · 17 comments