Draft.js vs. Less vs. Plate vs. Textbox.io Comparison Chart

We provide the building blocks to enable the creation of a broad variety of rich text composition experiences, from basic text styles to embedded media. Draft.js fits seamlessly into React applications, abstracting away the details of rendering, selection, and input behavior with a familiar declarative API. The Draft.js model is built with immutable-js, offering an API with functional state updates and aggressively leveraging data persistence for scalable memory usage. Draft.js is a framework for building rich text editors in React, powered by an immutable model and abstracting over cross-browser differences. Draft.js allows you to build any type of rich text input, whether you're only looking to support a few inline text styles or building a complex text editor for composing long-form articles. Draft.js is distributed via npm. It depends on React and React DOM which must also be installed.

​Plate is a rich-text editor framework for React, designed to simplify complex text editing needs. Built with Slate.js and TypeScript, it offers a highly customizable and extensible editing experience. Plate provides a wide range of plugin packages that enhance the behavior, hooks, serialization, normalization, and other features of the editor. These plugins are "headless," meaning they are unstyled by default, allowing developers to style them as needed. It includes state management with Zustand stores, custom hotkeys, API methods, and transforms accessible through editor.api and editor.transforms. Plate also offers unstyled and accessible components based on Radix UI, serving as the foundation for building high-quality design systems. For those seeking a visually appealing interface, Plate provides pre-built styled components based on shadcn/ui, which can be customized to create a unique, accessible, and visually pleasing user interface.