Tiptap Headless Rich Text Editor

Tiptap is a headless, open source rich text editor framework for web applications, offering over 100 modular extensions that developers compose to build custom editing experiences ranging from simple text fields to full-featured document editors with real-time collaboration. Built on the ProseMirror library, it provides a schema-driven document model where every node and mark is type-safe and serializable to JSON, HTML, or plain text. The framework abstracts away the complexities of contentEditable handling, selection management, and input normalization that plague native browser editing, replacing them with a declarative command-based API. Each extension encapsulates a single feature such as headings, lists, tables, code blocks, mentions, drag-and-drop, text alignment, or text color, and extensions can define custom keyboard shortcuts, input rules triggered by character patterns, paste rules for content transformation, and ProseMirror plugins for low-level behavior. The AI Toolkit add-on enables developers to build AI agents that directly manipulate document content through structured commands, supporting use cases like intelligent rewriting, summarization, translation, and content generation within the editor surface. Real-time collaborative editing is provided through Hocuspocus, a WebSocket-based collaboration server that handles conflict resolution, presence awareness, and document persistence using Yjs CRDTs. The content conversion library supports importing and exporting DOCX, ODT, Markdown, and JSON formats. Tiptap Cloud offers managed hosting for collaboration servers with SOC 2 Type II certification, GDPR compliance, and EU data residency. With 37 thousand GitHub stars, 49 million monthly NPM downloads, and over 6 thousand Discord community members, Tiptap powers editors at companies including GitLab, Linear, and Axel Springer. The core framework is MIT licensed.