p5.js vs slate

p5.js and slate are two comparable projects, each with trade-offs depending on your needs. slate is the more popular choice (31,695 vs 23,740 stars).

	p5.js	slate
Summary	p5.js is an open-source JavaScript project with 23.7k GitHub stars. It is associated with art, creative-coding, design, education. The repository is actively maintained, with recent commits.	Slate is a completely customizable framework for building rich text editors in React. Rather than shipping a fixed editor, it provides a schema-less, plugin-driven core and a nested document model so developers can implement editors like Medium, Dropbox Paper, or Google Docs without fighting against built-in assumptions.
Category	Editors & rich text	Editors & rich text
Language	JavaScript	TypeScript
License	—	—
Stars	23,740	31,695
Downloads/wk	117.3k	—
Security	Clean	—
Health	100	100
Last commit	6/14/2026	6/13/2026
Source	GitHub	GitHub