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ProseMirror – A toolkit for building rich-text editors on the web

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Resurfaced independently across 5 calendar years, with breakout response in 2 of them.

submissions
6
submitters
6
observed span
2015–2023
peak thread · 51 comments
236 pts
latest 20+ return · 2019-01-25
236 pts

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2007–2026

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ProseMirror is easily the best source code I've ever worked with. The components are so well architected, that inside the codebase there's a 100 page book on software design principles waiting to come out. I'm serious. Marijn Haverbeke should certainly write a AOSA (http://aosabook.org/en/index.html) style piece on how & why the software is architected in such way. What sets ProseMirror apart from the rest (Slate, Quill, Trix, Draft, etc.) is - ProseMirror isn't simply a library. It's an entire platform…

To make it perfectly clear, ProseMirror is seeking funding to go open source with 7 days left. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/prosemirror/x/1663745#/st... Already put in what I can.

sitkack·101-point thread·

why don't you work on a javascript sandbox interpreter in javascript? a jail/chroot for javascript code?

evrim·31-point thread·

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Breakout years
2

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
372

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Total comments
77

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