Monaco Editor
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
4warn against
Nov 20, 2025first mention
Sep 1, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“Recommend either rolling your own with a transparent textbox layered approach or just using Monaco or https://codemirror.net/.”
vibecoded a markdown editoron “Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor”
“It uses Monaco under the hood so it handles huge payloads pretty gracefully”
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“Microsoft's Monaco editor that's driven from VS Code is quite good”
Caveats and dissent
“Monaco at 5MB+ is bigger than the whole app.”
built a markdown editoron “Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor”
“just switched my terminal over to it from Monaco”
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“you should replace monaco here”
Often compared with
Who recommends it in their own words
Threads where it came up
- Show HN: Markdown Viewer and Editor 2 mentions
- Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now 1 mention
- Plotnine 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) 1 mention
- Google's Antigravity Bait and Switch 1 mention
- CodePvP – LeetCode but Multiplayer 1 mention
Also written as Monaco. Data: monaco-editor.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 14
“Monaco at 5MB+ is bigger than the whole app.”
“Recommend either rolling your own with a transparent textbox layered approach or just using Monaco or https://codemirror.net/.”
“Yes, in the Monaco editor”
“language diagnostics for standalone Monaco editors in the browser”
“with Monaco as the SQL editor”
“a built in file editor powered by Monaco”
“Next 16, Monaco, shadcn”
“It uses Monaco under the hood so it handles huge payloads pretty gracefully”
“just switched my terminal over to it from Monaco”
“you should replace monaco here”
“Microsoft's Monaco editor that's driven from VS Code is quite good”
“just loosely wrapped up the monaco editor which I'm guessing is going to be pretty bare”
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“A lot of sites started to use Monaco for code editing”