To use CK Editor as a formatable textarea, there is not much to do. It can easy be configured and support various of formatting options out of the box.
What helped us is, that it is expandable. If there isn't a feature, which CKEditor provides out-of-the-box (or buy their paid services), you can write your own plugins. Once you understood their events and what they provide, it is highly customizable. And if you can't figure out an issue yourself, the customer support has an open ear for you everytime. Since we are a paying customer, i can't tell anything about the customer support, if you use the free version.
The documentation has many examples and showcases, so it sould be easy for you to integrate it into your app.
Since we did our own plugins, we compile as well our own CK Editor on top of the standard one. It took a bit to understand, how we should do it, but an example project helped us with the start. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Since everything went fine up until now (using it since 2019), i do not see any drawback.
The only thing i can remember is, that I asked for a feature and they declined, because this isn't on their roadmap right now. But hey, this is totally understandable. They should concentrate their work on what most of the users request... not just me :-) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
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