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New comment by thisisjedr in "Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps"

thisisjedr — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:03:31 +0000

Thanks for reporting! We do have perf tests for editing docs over 50 pages, but something in the demo doc must indeed be slowing edits down, this is not expected behaviour. Filed an issue https://github.com/eigenpal/docx-editor/issues/590

New comment by thisisjedr in "Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps"

thisisjedr — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:17:01 +0000

Noted, and thanks for the feedback! It's on our roadmap to better support mobile experience

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thisisjedr — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:56:19 +0000

Happy to hear that! :)

The repo has actually been public for ~3 months, but we only launched the project homepage https://www.docx-editor.dev recently, so search engines are still catching up.

> I was scouring the internet for something like this and couldn't find it.

Interested to hear how can we make it more discoverable? What keywords were you searching for ?

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thisisjedr — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:50:33 +0000

Thanks!

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thisisjedr — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:50:26 +0000

Thank you!

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thisisjedr — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:50:09 +0000

Thanks! The hard here part is not typescript implementation but it's catching Word undocumented quirks.

The OOXML spec gets you far but doesn't cover 100% of how Word renders things. Community feedback has helped a lot here, users attach docs (in gh issues) that break rendering, we can reproduce against Word, fix the engine, and keep tightening fidelity.

Show HN: Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps

thisisjedr — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:23:37 +0000

We are working on an open-source .docx editor library for apps that need to edit Word documents in the browser. We just shipped 1.0.

A lot of existing approaches convert .docx into HTML and lose document semantics along the way. Our editor parses OOXML directly and uses its own rendering+layout engine to produce paged documents with html/css. Edits round-trip back to .docx, so you’re always editing the document, not its representation.

The core rendering engine is framework agnostic, with React and Vue ui adapters on top.

It’s Apache 2.0. Happy to answer questions.

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New comment by thisisjedr in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2026)"

thisisjedr — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:05:18 +0000

I'm working on https://docx-editor.dev/, the open-source, mit licensed word editor library.

We are building this because we such library it in our core business, and a lot of other engineers seem to need it too. We have contributors showing up with bug reports and fixes, and real interest from people building apps around .docx docs.

My previous show hn post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947229) got a lot of skepticism because we're developing heavily with AI, but with active community feedback and proper ai oversight (mostly me), I'm super proud of what we have now.

New comment by thisisjedr in "Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor"

thisisjedr — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:21:13 +0000

Thank you!

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thisisjedr — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:57:15 +0000

https://ghuntley.com/loop/

New comment by thisisjedr in "Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor"

thisisjedr — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 02:24:56 +0000

Yes, it's like Google Docs for .docx files. It's open-source, MIT-licensed, and runs fully in JS, so you can embed it in your app.

Every other JS DOCX editor I found was either abandoned or commercial. I couldn't find a solid MIT-licensed option.

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thisisjedr — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:44:02 +0000

We don’t have a formal '% compatibility' metric yet, but it’s on our radar as a feedback loop mechanism for self-improvement.

For now, we mostly rely on testing with our own and customer docs. In practice, we were seeing solid results after a couple of days of keeping Claude working in the loop and giving lots of feedback: .docx files along with screenshots annotated to highlight what didn’t work.

New comment by thisisjedr in "Show HN: JavaScript-first, open-source WYSIWYG DOCX editor"

thisisjedr — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:49:09 +0000

Fair point, we know the editor isn't yet 1:1 with Word. When you built yours, was Word your source of truth (reverse-engineering sense), or did you stick to MS-OE376? And any recommended process for systematically uncovering those undocumented edge cases?

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thisisjedr — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:33:38 +0000

We needed a JS-first WYSIWYG DOCX editor and couldn't find a solid OSS option, most were either commercial or abandoned.

As an experiment, we gave Claude Code the OOXML spec, a concrete editor architecture, and a Playwright-based test suite. The agent iterated in a (Ralph) loop over a few nights and produced a working editor from scratch.

Core text editing works today. Tables and images are functional but still incomplete. MIT licensed.

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