Plate

Reach for Plate over Tiptap or a raw contenteditable when the target is a Notion-style block editor in a shadcn codebase — the components land in components/ui as ordinary Tailwind React files you can restyle, which is the thing Tiptap does not give you. Install feature kits (table-kit, media-kit, ai-kit), not individual nodes: a bare node without its plugin renders nothing and the failure is silent. Watch the bundle — editor-ai pulls Slate, the AI SDK and a large plugin graph, so start from editor-basic and add kits when a feature is actually needed, and note that comments, suggestions and Yjs collaboration all need a backend you supply.

Why it is here. The reference answer for rich-text in React right now, and the clearest proof that a whole editor framework can ship through the shadcn registry rather than as an opaque npm widget.