alt Hacker NewsI’ve tried to create the minimalist version of this with Revise.js. The main surface area is a custom element called a `<content-area>`. The OverType library you linked to uses a time-old technique where you essentially put a duplicate copy of the content over a `<textarea>` to highlight it but this doesn’t really work in mobile and it messes with the selection. I’ve tried to grapple with `contenteditable` directly with my solution, but it does try to use less JavaScript and it does try to be more minimal.
https://github.com/bikeshaving/revise https://revise.js.org https://revise.js.org/blog/introducing-revise/
Just wanted to say, I enjoyed the article and your minimal rich text editor library looks great! I've been working with heavily customized code editors (mostly CodeMirror from previous major versions to current) and rich text editors (Quill, etc.) for years now, off and on. For various reasons I keep coming back to building a new editor, sometimes in the terminal for a REPL with syntax highlight, or a Markdown editor in the browser, other times attempting a content editor with media blocks. CodeMirror and ProseMirror are impressive works and my current go-to libraries, but I'd love to try a light-weight approach from the bottom up, small enough to be able to understand it completely.