Tired of rebuilding the same editor features in Puck? Ship a page builder in days, not quarters.
GrapesJS + 100+ ready plugins from GJS.Market give you drag-and-drop, a Style Manager, Device Preview, MJML email, and an Asset Manager out of the box. All the plumbing Puck makes you write yourself.
You're here because…
Most teams find Puck because they want a clean React API. Most teams leave Puck for the same three reasons.
You spent two sprints rebuilding a style manager
GrapesJS ships a visual Style Manager out of the box — typography, spacing, borders, shadows, gradients. In Puck, you build that UI yourself, panel by panel.
Your designers want device preview, drag-resize, asset library
Puck has none of these as built-ins. GrapesJS Device Manager, free-transform handles, and Asset Manager are part of core — wire them up in a single config.
Your CMS team needs email templates too
Puck stops at React components. GrapesJS has an MJML-based email builder plugin — one editor framework for landing pages, CMS pages, and transactional email.
What you get in 1 hour with GrapesJS + GJS.Market
From npm install to clean HTML/CSS export, on a fresh project, with zero custom editor code.
Same scope in Puck
~6–12 weeks
custom dev for style/device/asset managers
- ●0:00
npm install grapesjs
Install GrapesJS + a preset (webpage or newsletter) in under a minute.
- ●0:15
Drag-and-drop editor is live
Default blocks, canvas, undo/redo, and component selection all work — zero config.
- ●0:30
Style + Device + Asset managers wired
Toggle them on in the config object. Visual CSS controls and responsive breakpoints come for free.
- ●0:45
MJML email plugin added
Drop in grapesjs-mjml to give the same UI for transactional and marketing email.
- ●1:00
Export clean HTML/CSS → ship
getHtml() / getCss() returns portable markup. No React tree to render server-side.
Try before you migrate
Three real editors. Free open-source baseline plus two production editors you can buy on GJS.Market — switch tabs to compare what shipped vs what you would build yourself.
★shadcn/ui Editor is what most Puck migrators try first — it's pre-selected below.
A production-grade editor with the shadcn/ui design system pre-wired in canvas. TypeScript, dark mode, accessible primitives — the way modern React apps look, without you building the UI.
Like what you see?
Get the shadcn/ui Editor on GJS.Market →
Which one fits your job?
We're not going to hide it — Puck has one scenario where it wins. Here are the three jobs teams actually hire a page builder for.
Your job
I am building a CMS or landing-page builder
You need a Style Manager, Asset Manager, Device Manager, and reusable blocks on day one. Puck would require you to hand-roll all of that before your editor even feels like an editor.
Browse CMS plugins →Your job
I am building a drag-and-drop email editor
Email templating means MJML or table-based HTML, not React. Puck does not output email-safe markup at all. GrapesJS + grapesjs-mjml is the standard open-source path.
See email builder stack →Your job
I need editors to render my React design system in-canvas
If your only requirement is rendering live React components in the canvas and the design system already enforces structure, Puck is a clean fit. GrapesJS supports this via React custom components, but Puck is shorter to first commit.
GrapesJS + React patterns →What Puck → GrapesJS migrations actually look like
Benchmarks from teams who shipped a Puck-style editor with GrapesJS + GJS.Market plugins.
Avg. time saved
8–10 weeks
vs hand-rolling editor chrome in Puck
Plugins teams ship with
3–5
out of 100+ available on GJS.Market
Typical migration window
2–4 weeks
part-time, with the schema mapper kit below
Migrate from Puck in a weekend
Grab the Puck → GrapesJS schema mapper, a starter Next.js repo, and a checklist that has been used to migrate real production editors. We'll send it to your inbox.
- Component schema mapping cheat-sheet (Puck → GrapesJS)
- Starter Next.js + GrapesJS repo with Style + Asset Manager
- Rollout checklist: feature flag, content batching, QA gates
The plugins Puck migrators buy first
Same curated row featured on the GJS.Market homepage.
by Blocomposer
by DevFuture Development
by DevFuture Development
by Blocksmith
by DevFuture Development
by Blocomposer
Or start free — grab any of these and ship today
A handful of free plugins from the marketplace, refreshed every minute.
by BitTurbo Software
by DevFuture Development
by Moonrise
by Silex website builder
by DevFuture Development
by Silex website builder
The honest feature scoreboard
| What you need | GrapesJS | Puck |
|---|---|---|
| Open source license | ✓ MIT | ✓ MIT |
| Framework-agnostic | ✓ Vanilla JS — works with React, Vue, Angular, Svelte | ✗ React only |
| Plugin marketplace | GJS.Market — 100+ plugins | None |
| Email (MJML) builder | ✓ Plugin available | ✗ |
| Built-in Style Manager | ✓ | ✗ Build it yourself |
| Device Manager / responsive preview | ✓ Built-in | ✗ |
| Asset Manager | ✓ Built-in | ✗ |
| GitHub stars | 22k+ | ~8k |
| In production since | 2015 (10+ years) | 2023 |
Questions teams ask before they migrate
Comparing other builders?
Skip the paradox of choice. Start with the curated picks.
The same best-sellers that GJS.Market features on the homepage — handpicked, production-tested, and ready to drop into your editor.
Talk to someone who has migrated a real Puck app.
15 minutes, no pitch. We'll sketch your migration path and tell you honestly if Puck is the better fit.