For your projects, do you consider the fact that this component does not depend on a specific framework to be a positive thing? I ask because when I started writing my editor, I considered to go jQuery free, but then I decided to stick with jQuery and create it as a jQuery plugin since people are used to components wrapped this way.
The other medium-editor repo isnt focusing at all on handling user-uploaded media and that really sucks.
I would switch immediately if you had baked-in integration for
-Youtube inline upload -Images upload
But again, thats just my opinion. The other repo is pretty significant and gaining a lot of traction but I think they will end up relying completely on 3rd parties to handle assets. I think if you focused on media, you could compete and be a more beginner-friendly editor.
Best of luck to you, I love the Medium editor and may end up sending you some pull requests if you keep this thing going.
Edit: http://YouMightNotNeedjQuery.com might be of assistance
But these days I prefer things to be as vanilla as possible. jquery is becoming more of a burden than help given how much better modern browsers are becoming.
In the not-too-distant future I picture myself stripping jQuery from my projects, so the less tie-in the better.