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Content creators and programmers seeking a customizable framework for building rich text editors
About Slate
Slate is a completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. Slate lets you build rich, intuitive editors like those in Medium, Dropbox Paper or Google Docs, which are becoming table stakes for applications on the web, without your codebase getting mired in complexity. It can do this because all of its logic is implemented with a series of plugins, so you aren't ever constrained by what is or isn't in "core". You can think of it like a pluggable implementation of contenteditable built on top of React. It was inspired by libraries like Draft.js, Prosemirror and Quill. Slate is currently in beta. Its core API is usable now, but you might need to pull request fixes for advanced use cases. Some of its APIs are not "finalized" and will (breaking) change over time as we find better solutions. The most important part of Slate is that plugins are first-class entities.
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Tiptap
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TinyMCE
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TinyMCE paid plans include advanced features that are perfectly suited to enterprise-grade uses and even the most complex edge-cases. Three popular premium features:
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3. Spell Checker Pro: Eliminate errors = consistent on-brand spelling
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