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An embeddable rich text editor written in TypeScript. It has its own document engine, a default interface, a headless API and adapters for the common frameworks.

Better Rich Text isn't on a public package registry. After you buy a licence, download the zip from your Lemon Squeezy receipt or order page.

Everything the toolbar does is a typed command, so anything a person can do in the editor, your code can do too.

Every adapter wraps the same createRichTextEditor and behaves the same way.

@better-rich-text/presets has four ready-made presets for createRichTextEditor.

Better Rich Text Commercial Licence, version 1.0. Copyright © 2026 Dwayne Charrington.

Tables are built from three parts: the model and commands in @better-rich-text/plugin-table, the table view the plugin contributes to EditorView, and the table interface in…

Five opt-in packages add structure and references to a document. Each is a separate plugin with its own commands, hooks and interface, so an editor only pays for the ones it installs.

Mentions, merge tags, conditional content, dates, templates, emoji and image editing.

Two opt-in plugins.

Better Rich Text reads and writes CommonMark and GitHub Flavored Markdown. You can paste it, type it, edit it as source, store it and bind it to forms, and plugins can add their own syntax.

@better-rich-text/plugin-comments adds threaded comments anchored to text: a margin sidebar with cards beside their text, inline thread popovers, replies, @mentions, reactions…

Suggestion mode (track changes) records edits as proposals instead of applying them.

Revision history is opt-in. It adds snapshots (manual, automatic and after saves), a history panel that compares any version with the current document or with another version, and…

The AI plugin adds writing actions (improve, fix spelling and grammar, shorten, expand, simplify, change tone, translate, summarise, turn into a list, continue writing, and free-form…

@better-rich-text/plugin-proofing adds spelling, grammar and style checking. Native browser spellcheck works with no setup.

Three opt-in tools help authors publish content that works for everyone: an accessibility checker, a link checker and visual aids that show block structure and invisible characters.

Word import and export, PDF files, full-page HTML and email export. Each format is its own package, so an editor only bundles what it uses.

Opt-in interface features for a classic editor: a menu bar, a context menu, a Styles menu, help, preview and block handles.

A skin sets the look of the editor chrome (toolbar, menus, popovers, dialogs, find panel, status bar, source view, character picker, selection toolbar) and the content area.

The editor interface (toolbar, menus, dialogs, find and replace, table tools, status bar, slash menu, context menu and command palette) is English by default.

One function tells the editor who people are. Comments, suggested edits, revision history, live presence and mentions all read names, avatars, titles and colours from it, so you write…

Better Rich Text runs entirely in the browser. You only need a server for features that store or fetch shared data.

Real-time collaboration is opt-in. Several people edit one document, see each other's selections and carets, and discuss text in anchored comment threads.

@better-rich-text/migrate moves an existing TinyMCE or Froala integration across.

Every TinyMCE 7 plugin, open source and premium, with the Better Rich Text package, feature and commands that cover it.

The document is an immutable JSON tree owned by an original TypeScript engine. Every content change compiles to primitive, invertible operations applied to an isolated transaction…

Every caret position is a TextPoint (text leaf id + UTF-16 offset). To make that true, a textblock's children are text leaves and inline atoms where adjacent leaves never share…

Events report what happened. Hooks let extensions change how it happens.

Suggestion mode records edits as proposals that people accept or reject. It must work for any command (typing, paste, AI, input rules, lists), in standalone editors and under real-time…