There's a lot of off-the-shelf WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get, a.k.a. "rich text") editors, like CKEditor. They offer a ton of features and several guides, features and plugins for all kinds of frameworks, but their code bases are usually huuuge. I mean, the CKEditor 5 repository has around 2000 JS files totalling in around 300k lines of code - mind-boggling, isn't it?
And probably unnecessary: Most use cases don't require a PDF or even a Word export, real-time collaboration, maths and chemistry integration, revisions, automatic creation of bibliographies, or a full-blown Excel clone. When you only want some basic text editing - why not build your own WYSIWYG editor once?
In this post, I will explain how to create your own WYSIWYG markdown editor for Vue!
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