I Built a Notion-like Editor for Vue 3 with AI, 5 Themes, and Real-time Collaboration — It's 100% Free

If you've ever tried to build a rich text editor in Vue, you know the pain. Tiptap is amazing — but it's headless . You get a powerful ProseMirror engine with zero UI. That means you spend weeks building toolbars, menus, themes, and handling edge cases before you can even show it to your users. I spent months solving this problem, and today I'm releasing Tiptap UI Kit — a fully-featured, production-ready editor component for Vue 3. Think of it as what Tiptap would look like if it shipped with a complete UI out of the box. Live Demo | GitHub | npm The Problem Here's what building a Tiptap editor from scratch looks like: Set up Tiptap with Vue 3 ✅ (easy, 30 min) Build a toolbar with 20+ formatting buttons 😅 (2 days) Handle active state tracking for every button 😰 (1 day) Make it look good 😤 (3 days) Add dark mode 🫠 (1 day) Make it responsive 💀 (1 day) Add i18n support ☠️ (1 day) Add AI features... 💸 (good luck) By the time you're done, you've written 5,000+ lines of UI code and your edit