Lexical

What Lexical is

Lexical is a free, open-source framework for building text editors on the web. Its small, dependency-free core provides editing infrastructure, while optional packages let developers assemble the capabilities their application needs. Lexical can support plain-text inputs, rich-text editors, full document editors and real-time collaborative experiences. Supported content includes mentions, hashtags, links, custom emoji, tables, lists, code blocks and images. A Yjs integration enables shared content and remote cursors for collaboration. The core is framework-agnostic, and the optional @lexical/react package supplies React bindings. Lexical handles editor infrastructure; applications provide layout, toolbars, menus, styling and storage. Content can be converted between JSON, HTML and Markdown. An editor without a root element performs no DOM work, allowing the same code to run on a server or in tests. The project began at Meta, is community-developed and MIT licensed. It follows WCAG best practices and supports screen readers and other assistive technologies. All Lexical packages should use the same version.