Open Source CoffeeScript Text Editors

A rich text editor for everyday writing. Compose beautifully formatted text in your web application. Trix is an editor for writing messages, comments, articles, and lists—the simple documents most web apps are made of. It features a sophisticated document model, support for embedded attachments, and outputs terse and consistent HTML. Trix is an open-source project from Basecamp, the creators of Ruby on Rails. Millions of people trust their text to Basecamp, and we built Trix to give them the best possible editing experience. Most WYSIWYG editors are wrappers around HTML’s contenteditable and execCommand APIs, designed by Microsoft to support live editing of web pages in Internet Explorer 5.5, and eventually reverse-engineered and copied by other browsers. Trix complete control over what happens after every keystroke, and avoids the need to use execCommand at all.

Hallo is a straightforward, in-place WYSIWYG rich-text editor plugin for web pages using jQuery UI and the HTML5 contentEditable attribute. We use the Travis continuous integration service for testing Hallo. When Hallo is loaded it will also load all the enabled plugins for the element, and pass them some additional options. Unique identifier of the Hallo instance, can be used for element IDs.

VimFx brings Vim-inspired navigation and command mode to Firefox via WebExtensions. It allows users to control the browser with keyboard shortcuts (h/j/k/l), open tabs, follow links, find text, and execute commands—all without a mouse. It mimics Vim’s Normal/Insert modes, enabling power users to browse efficiently. It is open-source and integrates seamlessly with Firefox.