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BlockNote

A React Rich Text Editor that's block-based (Notion style) and extensible. Built on top of Prosemirror and Tiptap.

From TypeCellOSยทUpdated June 14, 2026ยทView on GitHubยท

Welcome to BlockNote! The open source Block-Based React rich text editor. Easily add a modern text editing experience to your app. The project is written primarily in TypeScript, distributed under the Other license, first published in 2022. It has gained significant community traction with 9,826 stars and 742 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: block-based, editor, javascript, notion, notion-editor.

Latest release: v0.51.4
<p align="center"> <a href="https://www.blocknotejs.org"> <img alt="TypeCell" src="https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote/raw/main/docs/public/img/logos/banner.svg?raw=true" width="300" /> </a> </p> <p align="center"> Welcome to BlockNote! The open source Block-Based React rich text editor. Easily add a modern text editing experience to your app. </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://www.blocknotejs.org"> Homepage </a> - <a href="https://www.blocknotejs.org/docs"> Documentation </a> - <a href="https://www.blocknotejs.org/docs/getting-started"> Quickstart </a>- <a href="https://www.blocknotejs.org/examples"> Examples </a> </p>

Live demo

See our homepage @ https://www.blocknotejs.org or browse the examples.

Example code (React)

npm version

typescript
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.

Features

BlockNote comes with a number of features and components to make it easy to embed a high-quality block-based editor in your app:

Animations:

<img src="https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote/blob/readme/.resources/animations.gif?raw=true" width="400" />

Helpful placeholders:

<img src="https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote/blob/readme/.resources/placeholders.gif?raw=true" width="400" />

Drag and drop blocks:

<img src="https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote/blob/readme/.resources/dragdrop.gif?raw=true" width="400" />

Nesting / indentation with tab and shift+tab:

<img src="https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote/blob/readme/.resources/nesting.gif?raw=true" width="400" />

Slash (/) menu:

<img src="https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote/blob/readme/.resources/slashmenu.gif?raw=true" width="400" />

Format menu:

<img src="https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote/blob/readme/.resources/selectmenu.gif?raw=true" width="400" />

Real-time collaboration:

<img src="https://github.com/TypeCellOS/BlockNote/blob/readme/.resources/collaboration.gif?raw=true" width="400" />

Feedback ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธ

We'd love to hear your thoughts and see your experiments, so come and say hi on Discord.

Contributing ๐Ÿ™Œ

See CONTRIBUTING.md for more info and guidance on how to run the project (TLDR: just use pnpm start).

The codebase is automatically tested using Vitest and Playwright.

License ๐Ÿ“ƒ

BlockNote is 100% Open Source Software. The majority of 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. Learn more.

The XL packages (source code in the packages/xl-* directories and published in NPM as @blocknote/xl-*) are licensed under the GPL-3.0. If you cannot comply with this license and want to use the XL libraries, you'll need a commercial license. Refer to our website for more information.

Credits โค๏ธ

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!

<a href="https://nlnet.nl"><img src="https://nlnet.nl/image/logos/NGIAssure_tag.svg" alt="NLNet" width="100"></a>

Hosting and deployments powered by Vercel:

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This project is tested with BrowserStack

Contributors

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