# Tiptap 8 Hacker News commenters recommended Tiptap and 6 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 3 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Open-source rich text editor that is easy to extend and widely chosen for WYSIWYG editing. Critics say its abstractions get in the way. ## Why people recommend it - Plug-and-play, easy to extend (2 comments): "Making this plug and play is fantastic, and the live "editor types" demo on tiptap.dev is spectacularly convincing." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48210871)) "when used together with Tiptap it's as easy as adding an extension to your editor" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48219082)) - Well-regarded, well-built project (3 comments): "it's a great project and I have a lot of respect for it. They're solving a different problem though." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751778)) "ended up building off their Y.js backend, which is great" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47480930)) "Also very happy to see it's Vue + TipTap. Great choices." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051732)) ## What people warn about - Abstractions and React integration compromises (3 comments): "doesn't have to make any of the compromises that Tiptap's React integration currently makes" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47428750)) "Tiptap did not do this, and it is empirically very challenging to manage as a result." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47429332)) "kept running into into issues where the abstractions got in the way" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48347136)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [ProseMirror](https://hackerapproved.com/p/prosemirror.md): 16 recommend - [Wordgard](https://hackerapproved.com/p/wordgard.md): 10 recommend - [Lexical](https://hackerapproved.com/p/lexical.md): 9 recommend ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Tiptap", https://hackerapproved.com/p/tiptap/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).