Build a Production-Ready React Page Builder with GrapesJS

A GrapesJS preset built with React, the official React wrapper and shadcn/ui, so the editor chrome already looks like a modern React app. This is what you would otherwise spend months designing yourself.

A visual editor is not one feature. It is fourteen subsystems that all have to agree with each other, and every one of them hides edge cases you only discover once real users are inside it.

What you would build from scratch

• Drag and drop
• Components
• Blocks
• Style Manager
• Responsive editing
• Asset Manager
• Undo and redo
• Storage
• HTML and CSS export
• Rich text editing
• Pages
• Device manager
• Plugin architecture
• Editor UI

Don't rebuild the editor. Build your product.

It is not the only editor framework, but it is the one that leaves the most control in your hands.

You do not have to buy a complete platform to get a visual editor. The engine is free forever; you pay only for the pieces that would otherwise cost you engineering months.

The editor core is the same in every case. What changes is the plugin stack on top of it.

Get a working GrapesJS React editor with just a few lines of code.

import GjsEditor from '@grapesjs/react';
import 'grapesjs/dist/css/grapes.min.css';

export default function Builder() {
  return (
    <GjsEditor
      options={{
        height: '100vh',
        storageManager: false,
      }}
    />
  );
}

Eight plugins React teams reach for first. Every card links to the real listing, where price, compatibility, reviews and install instructions live.

React

React UI for GrapesJS

The official React wrapper from the GrapesJS team. Declarative wrappers around the core modules so you build the editor UI from your own React components.

FreeView plugin

React

Reactor Preset for GrapesJS

Bring your own React component system into the canvas, so the things your users drag are the components you already ship.

FreeView plugin

Preset

GrapesJS Shadcn

A complete editor shell built with React and shadcn/ui. Skips the months usually spent designing and building editor chrome.

$999.99View plugin

Blocks

Plugin Blocky for Tailwind CSS

A large library of pre-made responsive Tailwind CSS blocks, ready to drag onto the canvas.

$59.00View plugin

Storage

Autosave & Restore — Crash Recovery for GrapesJS

Autosave and restore for the editor, so a closed tab or a dead battery does not cost your user an hour of work.

$12.00View plugin

Pages

Grapesjs Project Manager

Project, template and page management with storage managers built in — the fastest route from single-document editing to real projects.

FreeView plugin

Rich text

TinyMCE 8 Inline Text Editor

Replaces the built-in rich text editor with TinyMCE, adding inline editing and separate toolbars for block and inline elements.

$69.00View plugin

AI

Autofill — Dummy Content Filler for GrapesJS

Fills a layout with placeholder content in one command, so a blank canvas never blocks a demo or a design review.

$9.00View plugin

Three combinations that cover most products. Each one is the editor core plus the handful of plugins that turn it into a specific tool.

Prices are read live from the marketplace.

The honest unit is engineering time, not a licence fee. Below is what each subsystem costs you to build versus to install. These are planning estimates for scoping, not a quote.

Only facts we can source are listed. Where a claim could not be verified for all four tools, the row was left out rather than guessed.

Verified 2026-08-26. Licence and framework facts come from each project’s own package metadata and documentation. Head-to-head detail: GrapesJS vs Craft.js · Puck editor alternative · GrapesJS vs Builder.io

Craft.js and Puck give you a React drag-and-drop tree. Everything a person expects from an editor around that tree is still yours to write.

No logos and no testimonials on this page — just the ecosystem figures you can check yourself.

Star count from the GrapesJS repository on GitHub; plugin count from the GJS.Market catalogue. Both verified 2026-08-26.

Use the open-source GrapesJS core. Add the plugins you need. Build the editor your product actually requires.