thisisjedr
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Engineer, founder, I ship fast.
https://j.blaszyk.me/
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Comment · 1 month ago
Docx to markdown is a lossy conversion, so getting .docx back is possible but will lose most formatting details
Comment · 1 month ago
Thanks! Our core product is a Word editor that you can embed in your React / Vue app. So we just repurposed the layout engine to be an accurate converter. You can see how our layout engine "sees" the document in the left tab of the demo.
Comment · 4 months ago
I'm working on https://docx-editor.dev/, open-source, .docx editor library for building document apps.
Comment · 5 months ago
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
Comment · 5 months ago
Noted, and thanks for the feedback! It's on our roadmap to better support mobile experience
Comment · 5 months ago
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 ?
Comment · 5 months ago
Thanks!
Comment · 5 months ago
Thank you!
Comment · 5 months ago
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.
Comment · 5 months ago
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.
Comment · 8 months ago
Thank you!