Slate

Spec sheet

Purpose

Slate is a customizable framework for building rich text editors.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Product

Slate is a customizable framework for building rich text editors for web applications.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Intended users

Slate is aimed at developers building customized rich text editors for web applications.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

License

Slate is MIT-licensed.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Architecture

Slate uses a plugin-first architecture and a schema-less core that developers can customize.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Browser support

The FAQ says Slate aims to support modern desktop and mobile browsers, but its community-driven support is not highly robust; Internet Explorer is unsupported.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Built on React

Slate is a pluggable implementation of contenteditable built on React.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Collaboration

Slate's data model is designed to allow collaborative editing to be layered on top.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Document model

Slate uses a nested, recursive document tree that can represent structures such as tables and nested block quotes.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Examples

The documentation includes examples for rich text, Markdown preview, inline nodes, images, tables, and pasted HTML.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Extensibility

Slate uses first-class plugins to let developers customize the editing experience.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Extensions

The resources page lists Plate, slate-yjs, slate-collaborative, and other extensions and plugins that add capabilities to Slate.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Installation

The installation guide instructs developers to add the slate and slate-react npm packages, plus React and React DOM peer dependencies.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Maturity

The documentation describes Slate as being in beta and notes that some APIs may change in breaking ways.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Pasting behavior

By default, Slate parses pasted content as plain text; handling pasted HTML requires custom deserialization.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

Project maturity

The introduction says Slate is in beta and warns that some APIs are not finalized and may change in breaking ways.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

React

Slate is a pluggable implementation of contenteditable built on React.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

TypeScript limit

Slate's documented TypeScript support covers one document model at a time; supporting multiple document models is not supported by that approach.Read 11 Oct 2026 · docs.slatejs.org

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