While building my personal blog I experimented with Tiptap for the editor.
After a few weeks I realized something: it solved many problems, but it also introduced complexity I didn’t actually need.
At first I experimented with Tiptap, which is a very popular solution for rich text editing in React applications. It’s powerful and flexible, but after working with it for a while I realized it introduced more complexity than I actually needed.
My blog uses a custom content pipeline and a controlled HTML output, so debugging and controlling the generated markup became harder than expected.
Eventually I decided to take a different approach and build my own lightweight HTML editor.
The goals were simple:
- full control over the generated HTML
- predictable formatting output
- minimal dependencies
- easier debugging
Building a custom editor turned out to be a very interesting challenge, especially when dealing with formatting logic, preview rendering and content sanitization.
I wrote a detailed explanation on my
technical web development blog.
You can read the full article here:
building a custom HTML editor
If you’re building your own tools or experimenting with custom blog systems,
I’d be curious to hear what approach you chose !
Top comments (1)
One interesting thing I didn’t mention in the article is how tricky
HTML sanitization becomes when you move away from existing editors.