![]() Its headless approach makes it highly extensible, allowing you to build new features or refine existing features to best suit your needs. You can think of it as a headless, rich text editor that gives you the primitives to build anything you want. Lexical is not opinionated about the appearance or styling of your editor’s UI. Lexical is a fast, reliable, lightweight, and accessible editor engine that aims to provide a great developer experience. It can also be seamlessly plugged into different frontend frameworks. Rather, it is designed to be completely cross-platform and framework agnostic, implying that the underlying API can easily be ported to mobile or native desktop while still maintaining the same compatibility with the web version. Lexical is not built for any specific platform. ![]() Lexical provides these features as a set of individual, modular packages that you can easily pull into your project based on your requirements, eliminating the need rewrite certain functionalities over and over again. If you’re familiar with tools like CKEditor, Quill, and ProseMirror, then you’re aware that rich text editors have some common functionalities that are frequently required by developers. However, in my opinion, the existing plugins are sufficient to build all kinds of great tools. It’s important to note that at the time of writing this article, Lexical is still in early development. Lexical provides low-level APIs for developers to build their own editors with varying levels of complexity. Lexical is a dependency-free, extensible text editor framework that is being actively developed by Facebook at the time of writing. You can check out the source code for this article at this repo. In this article, we’ll use Lexical and React to build a simplified version of the Dropbox Paper editor. As a matter of fact, this article was written in Dropbox Paper, which is a good example of a WYSIWYG editor. WYSIWYG editors are very important features that you can find in many types of software, including content management systems, web builders, complex forms, note-taking tools, kanban boards, and more. This approach is beneficial, providing immediate feedback, unlike systems where you have to write some markup language like markdown. With a WYSIWYG text editor, you essentially get to see what the end result will look like as you’re working on your document. ![]() The term WYSIWYG is very commonly used in software to describe either a rich text editor or a system that gives you the ability to edit text in a rich format. Building a rich text editor with Lexical and React Mayowa Ojo Follow Software developer with a knack for exploring new technology and writing about my experience. ![]()
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