Resources

A few resources that are helpful for building with Slate.

Libraries

These libraries are helpful when developing with Slate:

• is-hotkey is a simple way to check whether an onKeyDown handler should fire for a given hotkey, handling cross-platform concerns like cmd vs. ctrl keys for you automatically.

Extensions and Plugins

These extensions and plugins add additional features and capabilities to Slate:

• @liveblocks/yjs A fully-hosted WebSocket infrastructure and persisted data store for Yjs documents

• Plate Rich text editor plugin system for Slate & React

• slate-angular Angular-based view layer, which is a useful supplement to Slate for building a rich text editor using Angular.

• slate-yjs Collaborative editing utilities for Slate leveraging Yjs

• slate-collaborative Collaborative editing utilities for Slate leveraging Automerge

• slate-vue3 Which is a useful supplement to Slate for building a rich text editor using Vue3, integrated all functions in an npm package

• Velt Collaboration SDK adding comments, presence, live cursors and CRDT to Slate

Products

These products use Slate, and can give you an idea of what's possible:

• Aline: Digital contracting for the modern enterprise

• Archbee: Build better product docs with your team

• Campfire: The most versatile writing software [for fiction]

• Chatterbug: Learn languages from real people

• CoCalc: Collaborative calculation and data science

• Coda: Coda brings all your words, data, and teamwork into one powerful doc

• Decap CMS: Open source content management for your Git workflow

• Dropdeck: Magically create beautiful slides — faster than ever

• Easy Email Pro: A powerful, highly customizable email editor

• Eraser: The Whiteboard for Engineering Teams

• GitBook: Plan, centralize and share knowledge

• Discord: Text & voice channels to collaborate & share

• Grafana: Operational dashboards for your data

• Guilded: Better chat, happier communities

• Guru: Organize company information. Access it anywhere. [wiki]

• Hygraph: The federated content platform

• Hot Page: A graphical website builder for writing HTML and CSS from scratch

• Kitemaker: Product development tool built to manage the work, not the workers

• Living Spec: A modern way for product teams to work

• Notestamp: A note-taking web app that synchronizes your notes to audio, video and pdfs.

• Notes Together: Get mundane details out of your head

• Prezly: Turn your audience into fans

• Quill Forms: Open Source Typeform Alternative WordPress Plugin

• Sana: Reimagining learning with AI [LMS]

• Sanity.io: Platform for structured content [data driven content]

• Slite: Where remote teams make decisions and share knowledge

• Static CMS: Git-based CMS for Static Site Generators

• Taskade: Get work done in one unified workspace

• TRPG Engine

• Thoughts

Editors

These pre-packaged editors are built on top of Slate, and can be helpful to see how you might structure your code:

• Accord Project Markdown Editor is a WYSIWYG editor for CommonMark.

• Canner Editor is a rich text editor.

• Chatterslate helps teach language grammar and more at Chatterbug.

• CoCalc Collaborative Calculation editor in the Cloud

• French Press Editor is a customizeable editor with offline support.

• Nossas Editor is a drop-in WYSIWYG editor.

• Notestamp: Synchronize your text entries to media using this rich text editor that inserts clickable stamps alongside text.

• React Force Slate Editor is a light-weight medium-style editor with no editor chrome.

• React Page is a self-contained, customizable inline WYSIWYG editor library.

• Plate (Plugins for Slate) provides an editor with configurable and extendable plugins.

• Tripdocs: It's a modern, production-ready rich text editor.

(Or, if you have their exact use case, can be a drop-in editor for you.)