
Ben Makuh
Ben thinks a lot about people, words, and code. As a results-oriented technical leader at Miro, he works on building real-time, collaborative text experiences for the communication needs of teams around the world.
Why we Built Our Own Canvas-Rendered Text Editor at Miro
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Why we Built Our Own Canvas-Rendered Text Editor at Miro

You can build a pretty decent rich text editor in HTML these days. We reached the point, though, where we needed to build our own from scratch in canvas so that we could deliver better performance, better language support, and more consistency.