@blocknote/core
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A "Notion-style" block-based extensible text editor built on top of Prosemirror and Tiptap.
Welcome to BlockNote! The open source Block-Based React rich text editor. Easily add a modern text editing experience to your app.
Homepage - Documentation - Quickstart - Examples
See our homepage @ https://www.blocknotejs.org or browse the examples.
import { useCreateBlockNote } from "@blocknote/react";
import { BlockNoteView } from "@blocknote/mantine";
import "@blocknote/core/fonts/inter.css";
import "@blocknote/mantine/style.css";
function App() {
const editor = useCreateBlockNote();
return <BlockNoteView editor={editor} />;
}
@blocknote/react comes with a fully styled UI that makes it an instant, polished editor ready to use in your app.
If you prefer to create your own UI components (menus), or don't want to use React, you can use @blocknote/core (advanced, see docs).
BlockNote comes with a number of features and components to make it easy to embed a high-quality block-based editor in your app:
We'd love to hear your thoughts and see your experiments, so come and say hi on Discord or Matrix.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for more info and guidance on how to run the project (TLDR: just use npm start).
Directory structure:
blocknote
āāā packages/core - The core of the editor
āāā packages/react - The main library for use in React apps
āāā packages/mantine - Mantine (default) implementation of BlockNote UI
āāā packages/ariakit - AriaKit implementation of BlockNote UI
āāā packages/shadcn - ShadCN / Tailwind / Radix implementation of BlockNote UI
āāā examples - Example apps
āāā playground - App to browse the example apps (https://playground.blocknotejs.org)
āāā tests - Playwright end to end tests
The codebase is automatically tested using Vitest and Playwright.
BlockNote is licensed under the MPL 2.0 license, which allows you to use BlockNote in commercial (and closed-source) applications. If you make changes to the BlockNote source files, you're expected to publish these changes so the wider community can benefit as well.
BlockNote builds directly on two awesome projects; Prosemirror by Marijn Haverbeke and Tiptap. Consider sponsoring those libraries when using BlockNote: Prosemirror, Tiptap.
BlockNote is built as part of TypeCell. TypeCell is proudly sponsored by the renowned NLNet foundation who are on a mission to support an open internet, and protect the privacy and security of internet users. Check them out!
Hosting and deployments powered by Vercel:
This project is tested with BrowserStack
0.35.0 (2025-07-25)
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A "Notion-style" block-based extensible text editor built on top of Prosemirror and Tiptap.
The npm package @blocknote/core receives a total of 60,359 weekly downloads. As such, @blocknote/core popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @blocknote/core demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago.Ā It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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