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Published 1 month ago • verified publisher icon basecamp

Replace Trix with Lexxy

Open monorkin opened this issue 3 months ago • 2 comments

Lexxy is an ActionText frontend replacement for Trix that has a few advantages:

  1. It supports WYSIWYG markdown editing (closes https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire/pull/36)
  2. It supports inline and block code blocks with syntax highlighting

While the Ruby side of replacing Trix with Lexxy is straight forward, a lot of the Stimulus controllers will have to be updated to work with Lexxy - like the composer, the unfurler, ...

monorkin avatar Sep 19 '25 06:09 monorkin

Hi! I'd like to take a shot at this if no one else has it in progress.

It looks like the result of #36 is that we want the full Lexxy experience instead of just putting in markdown support alone. So I'll give it a shot. I'm new to this project so hopefully I get all the controllers that need to get updated.

sethwbarton avatar Oct 13 '25 03:10 sethwbarton

One question regarding the UI/UX, should new Lexxy input look & feel, be the same as current Trix?

milos-dukic avatar Oct 29 '25 09:10 milos-dukic