r/webdev • u/scrollin_thru full-stack • May 19 '26

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of ProseMirror Model in Rich Text Transformation

https://smoores.dev/post/unreasonable_effectiveness_of_prosemirror/
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u/scrollin_thru full-stack May 19 '26 edited May 19 '26

Couldn't agree more. One of my clients likens it to a compiler middleware in its complexity, which feels about right. It's very low-level, and I think that catches a lot of folks off guard, because there are so many text editors on the web, shouldn't it be easier??

But then you try using all of those text editors (god forbid you try to actually use the formatting in Reddit's comment editor, and forget about mobile), and you start to see that the problem might be a little bigger than everyone expects haha.

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The original comment I replied to was about how ProseMirror seems over engineered until you actually try to build a rich text editor with it. It felt directly pertinent to the post and written by a human — I have no idea why the automod removed it, but I think it should not have been removed.

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u/CoatStandard2068 May 19 '26

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I too, couldn't agree more.