OllowEditor

A modern, open-source rich-text editor for JavaScript and Python ecosystems.

OllowEditor provides one editing experience through a framework-independent browser implementation, a published npm package with a React adapter, and a Python package with Django, Django REST Framework, Flask, and FastAPI integrations. The project is maintained by CodeFortify.

Features

• Rich text, headings, lists, links, tables, code blocks, quotes, and embeds
• Image, gallery, and attachment workflows with configurable server uploads
• HTML source mode, Markdown import/export, and document import/export tools
• Responsive desktop, tablet, and mobile toolbars
• Light, dark, and automatic themes
• Textarea synchronization for standard forms and APIs
• JavaScript plugin and keyboard-shortcut APIs
• TypeScript declarations and a React component
• Packaged static assets and upload integrations for Python web frameworks
• Safe plain-text and media previews for Django admin list views

Ecosystems

Ecosystem	Location	Distribution
Vanilla JavaScript	packages/javascript/	Direct integration
JavaScript and React	packages/npm/	@codefortify/olloweditor
Python web frameworks	packages/python/	olloweditor

The npm package contains the framework-independent core and a React adapter. Its examples also cover TypeScript, Next.js, Vue, Express upload handling, and NestJS upload handling. The Python distribution contains implemented Django, DRF, Flask, and FastAPI integrations.

Installation

Vanilla JavaScript

Use the files in packages/javascript/ directly:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/ollow.css">
<script src="path/to/ollow.js"></script>
<textarea id="editor" name="content"></textarea>
<script>
  OllowEditor.init("#editor");
</script>

See the Vanilla JavaScript guide.

npm

npm install @codefortify/olloweditor

import { createOllowEditor } from "@codefortify/olloweditor";
import "@codefortify/olloweditor/style.css";

createOllowEditor("#editor");

React and framework examples are in the npm package guide.

PyPI

pip install olloweditor
pip install "olloweditor[django]"  # choose only the integration you need

Available extras are django, drf, flask, fastapi, and all. See the Python package guide for setup, uploads, static assets, and safe preview behavior.

Repository Structure

.
├── .github/             # contribution templates and automation
├── docs/                # cross-project architecture and development docs
├── packages/
│   ├── javascript/      # dependency-free browser implementation
│   ├── npm/             # npm core, React adapter, and JS examples
│   └── python/          # PyPI distribution and Python integrations
└── website/             # project website and combined documentation

Examples stay with the implementation that owns and tests them. This avoids duplicating package-specific setup under a second root examples tree. See docs/repository-structure.md for details.

Development

Clone the repository and run checks from the relevant implementation:

git clone https://github.com/CodeFortifyCloud/olloweditor.git
cd olloweditor

npm run check:javascript
npm run check:npm
npm run check:python-frontend

Python checks require a virtual environment and development extras:

python -m venv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate
python -m pip install -e "./packages/python[all,test,dev]"
python -m pytest packages/python/tests
python -m ruff check packages/python
python -m mypy packages/python/src

Detailed setup is in docs/development.md. Architecture and release boundaries are documented in docs/architecture.md and docs/release-process.md.

Contributing and Support

Read CONTRIBUTING.md before opening a pull request. Use GitHub Issues for reproducible bugs and follow SUPPORT.md for questions. Potential vulnerabilities must be reported privately according to SECURITY.md, not posted in a public issue.

License

OllowEditor is available under the MIT License. Package-specific copies are retained with the published npm and Python distributions.

Copyright (c) 2026 CodeFortify.