How We Built A Rich Text Editor in React with SlateJS

We're building Kitemaker, a new, fast, and highly collaborative alternative to issue trackers like Jira, Trello, and Clubhouse. Building a full-featured editor with SlateJS is way more work than we can cover in one blog post. This post will give you the big picture and subsequent posts will dive into the dirty details. We think we've got the best editor around: Markdown shortcuts, code blocks with syntax highlighting, images, embedding designs from Figma, math expressions with LaTex, diagrams with MermaidJS, and, of course, emojis.