Tiptap Has a Free Rich Text Editor — Headless ProseMirror for Modern Web Apps

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Tiptap is a headless rich text editor built on ProseMirror with a modern developer experience.

What You Get for Free

Headless — bring your own UI, full control over styling
Extensions — 60+ built-in extensions (tables, code blocks, mentions, etc.)
Collaborative editing — Yjs-based real-time collaboration
Markdown — import/export Markdown
React/Vue/vanilla — framework-agnostic
TypeScript — full type safety
AI integration — AI text generation and editing
Custom extensions — build your own with simple API
Output formats — HTML, JSON, plain text

Quick Start

npm install @tiptap/react @tiptap/starter-kit

import { useEditor, EditorContent } from '@tiptap/react'
import StarterKit from '@tiptap/starter-kit'

function Editor() {
  const editor = useEditor({ extensions: [StarterKit] })
  return <EditorContent editor={editor} />
}

Why Developers Choose It

Draft.js is dead. Slate.js has a steep learning curve. Quill is opinionated:

Headless — style it however you want (no fighting CSS overrides)
ProseMirror — battle-tested document model
Extension system — compose exactly the features you need

A SaaS team spent 3 weeks customizing Quill's toolbar and fighting CSS conflicts. They rebuilt with Tiptap in 2 days — headless approach means their editor matches their design system perfectly.