10 alternatives to monaco-editor
microsoft/monaco-editor — A browser based code editor (46,883 stars, MIT, dev-tools, ui, database).
These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 247 licence-cleared components from microsoft/monaco-editor itself.
| # | Repo | Score | Licence | Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vscodium/vscodium | 4.5 | MIT | 33,748 |
| 2 | coder/code-server | 3.8 | MIT | 79,666 |
| 3 | burakorkmez/code-craft | 4.6 | MIT | 365 |
| 4 | ladybirdbrowser/ladybird | 6.7 | BSD-2-Clause | 66,601 |
| 5 | micro-editor/micro | 6.0 | MIT | 29,762 |
| 6 | fingerprintjs/fingerprintjs | 6.9 | MIT | 28,623 |
| 7 | xdebug/vscode-php-debug | 6.4 | MIT | 835 |
| 8 | codex-team/editor.js | 5.5 | Apache-2.0 | 31,976 |
| 9 | lapce/lapce | 4.2 | Apache-2.0 | 38,954 |
| 10 | citrolabs/ego-lite | 5.1 | MIT | 19,379 |
The alternatives in detail
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binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing
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VS Code in the browser
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Build a Code Editor SaaS with Next.js 15score 4.6/10 · MIT permissive · 365 stars · 47 components · search them
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Truly independent web browserscore 6.7/10 · BSD-2-Clause permissive · 66,601 stars · 3,003 components · search them · alternatives
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A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
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The most advanced free and open-source browser fingerprinting libraryscore 6.9/10 · MIT permissive · 28,623 stars · 51 components · search them
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PHP Debug Adapter for Visual Studio Code 🐞⛔score 6.4/10 · MIT permissive · 835 stars · 17 components · search them
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A block-style editor with clean JSON output
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Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust
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The fastest browser for AI agents to run browser automation, built for sharing your logged-in browser state with your AI agents, like Codex or Claude Code, without disturbing you. Zero cost, zero config.score 5.1/10 · MIT permissive · 19,379 stars · 134 components · search them
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