Slate
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Slate, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
The facts
Each one read from Slate's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Architecture
- Slate uses a plugin-first architecture and a schema-less core that developers can customize.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Built on React
- Slate is a pluggable implementation of contenteditable built on React.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Collaboration
- Slate's data model is designed to allow collaborative editing to be layered on top.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Document model
- Slate uses a nested, recursive document tree that can represent structures such as tables and nested block quotes.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Examples
- The documentation includes examples for rich text, Markdown preview, inline nodes, images, tables, and pasted HTML.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Extensibility
- Slate uses first-class plugins to let developers customize the editing experience.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Extensions
- The resources page lists Plate, slate-yjs, slate-collaborative, and other extensions and plugins that add capabilities to Slate.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Installation
- The installation guide instructs developers to add the slate and slate-react npm packages, plus React and React DOM peer dependencies.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Slate is aimed at developers building customized rich text editors for web applications.checked 11 Oct 2026
- License
- Slate is MIT-licensed.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Maturity
- The documentation describes Slate as being in beta and notes that some APIs may change in breaking ways.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Pasting behavior
- By default, Slate parses pasted content as plain text; handling pasted HTML requires custom deserialization.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Product
- Slate is a customizable framework for building rich text editors for web applications.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Project maturity
- The introduction says Slate is in beta and warns that some APIs are not finalized and may change in breaking ways.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Slate is a customizable framework for building rich text editors.checked 11 Oct 2026
- React
- Slate is a pluggable implementation of contenteditable built on React.checked 11 Oct 2026
- TypeScript limit
- Slate's documented TypeScript support covers one document model at a time; supporting multiple document models is not supported by that approach.checked 11 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Browser support
- The FAQ says Slate aims to support modern desktop and mobile browsers, but its community-driven support is not highly robust; Internet Explorer is unsupported.checked 11 Oct 2026
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