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

80 pointsposted 16 hours ago
by thisisjedr

14 Comments

aejm

an hour ago

A really solid looking editor! Just a heads up on small, mobile screen sizes: the UI elements of the top row overlap unusably, the rest of the UI seems usable just quite zoomed in and I really had to pan around a lot to do anything. Fundamentally a solid and usable UI, I’d recommend a little more polish on smaller screen sizes. Good work!

thisisjedr

an hour ago

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

unD

4 hours ago

Hi! I was looking at `@eigenpal/docx-editor-agents`—would that be a viable option for fetching the content of Word docs in agentic workflows? I'm currently using Pandoc to extract an MD version, but I'm not sure how true to the actual document that is (e.g., with comments). Thanks!

r0b05

2 hours ago

Excellent work

pryelluw

13 hours ago

I’ve built something similar but for PDFs. Know the pain too well. Best wishes!

pulkitanand

10 hours ago

Interesting! Would love to check that out as well, have you released it?

pryelluw

9 hours ago

It was an internal enterprise tool that will never be public.

radial_symmetry

12 hours ago

Holy shit, this is exactly what I needed for a major client. The track changes specifically, and being able to do it from Typescript. You have no idea how happy you just made me.

Edit: Did you just make this repo public? Last week I was scouring the internet for something like this and couldn't find it.

thisisjedr

6 hours 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 ?

bobajeff

12 hours ago

This looks really impressive. How hard was it to implement this in typescript?

thisisjedr

6 hours 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.