Lilac Editor
The tiny, framework‑agnostic WYSIWYG editor
Details
- External ID
- 1260047
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Lilac Editor
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 25, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.30815693820825313
- Tags
- Open Source, Text Editors, GitHub, Vercel Day
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Lilac is a ~18 KB, zero‑dependency TypeScript rich‑text editor with official adapters for 11 frameworks (React, Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid, Lit, Qwik, Alpine, Ember, Astro, Preact) and a PHP/Laravel package. MIT‑licensed — no keys, no subscription. Try the live playgrounds. Source code: https://github.com/maifeeulasad/lilac Demo: https://maifeeulasad.github.io/lilac/
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche developer utilities and toolchains
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- lightweight wysiwyg editor for web developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a zero-dependency, 18 KB rich-text WYSIWYG editor engine from scratch across 11 frontend framework adapters requires deep, specialized browser DOM and contenteditable expertise.
What it would actually take: Building a custom lightweight WYSIWYG core requires deep mastery of the browser Selection API, custom tree mutation observers, operational transforms or abstract syntax trees (AST) for contenteditable sanitization, and handling edge cases across browsers without third-party dependencies (like ProseMirror or Lexical). Additionally, writing and maintaining native wrapper packages across 11 frameworks plus PHP requires continuous cross-ecosystem library maintenance and deep AST transformation knowledge.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 27 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #17 of 28 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 311 days after the earliest competitor.
- HawkDoc · hn · 2026-03-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- JulIDE · hn · 2026-03-23 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- LiteEditor · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- LilScript makes JavaScript libraries smaller · hn · 2026-08-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Free Rich Text Editor · ph · 2026-09-15 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Pdfnative · hn · 2026-04-23 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Ferrite · hn · 2026-01-11 · 241 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- VectorNest responsive web-based SVG editor · hn · 2026-02-18 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.34
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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