Comparison
@monaco-editor/react vs react-monaco-editor
Rich text and code editorsPackage data 25 Sept 2026
@monaco-editor/reactv4.7.0, 13 Feb 2025
Monaco Editor for React - use the monaco-editor in any React application without needing to use webpack (or rollup/parcel/etc) configuration files / plugins
$ npm install @monaco-editor/react| Metric | @monaco-editor/react | react-monaco-editor | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly downloads | 4,721,441 | 172,159 | @monaco-editor/react 27.4x higher |
| 12-month download growth | +224% | +9% | @monaco-editor/react +215 pts |
| Gzip size | - | - | - |
| Minified size | - | - | - |
| Dependencies | 1 | 0 | @monaco-editor/react 1 more |
| Unpacked size | 149 kB | 59 kB | react-monaco-editor 2.5x smaller |
| Latest release | 4.7.0, 13 Feb 2025 | 0.59.0, - | - |
| Releases, last 12 months | 0 | - | - |
| First published | 21 Jun 2019 | - | - |
| GitHub stars | 4,745 | 4,212 | @monaco-editor/react +13% |
| Open issues | 9 | 78 | react-monaco-editor 69 more |
| Open pull requests | 12 | 1 | @monaco-editor/react 11 more |
| Contributors | - | - | - |
| Commits, last 52 weeks | 18 | 76 | react-monaco-editor 4.2x higher |
| TypeScript types | Bundled | Bundled | Same |
| Module format | ESM + CommonJS | ESM + CommonJS | Same |
| Runtimes | - | - | - |
| License | MIT | MIT | Same |
Green marks the smaller size or the more recent release. Bold marks the higher count, with no judgement implied. Sizes are for the whole package per Bundlephobia. Growth compares the average of the last 4 weeks with the first 4 weeks of the 52-week series.
@monaco-editor/react4.7m latest weekreact-monaco-editor172.2k latest week
Week of 23 Sept 2025Week of 15 Sept 2026
@monaco-editor/react
Major versions
- 0.0.121 Jun 2019
- 1.0.025 Jun 2019
- 2.0.08 Oct 2019
- 3.0.024 Dec 2019
- 4.0.017 Jan 2021
Last 5 releases
- 4.7.013 Feb 2025
- 4.6.06 Oct 2023
- 4.5.223 Aug 2023
- 4.5.15 May 2023
- 4.5.07 Apr 2023
99 releases in total, 0 in the last 12 months
react-monaco-editor
Major versions
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Last 5 releases
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- Need no runtime dependenciesreact-monaco-editor (@monaco-editor/react has 1, react-monaco-editor has 0)
- Module formatBoth ESM + CommonJS
- Need TypeScript types in the package itselfBoth
- Higher weekly npm downloads@monaco-editor/react (4.7m vs 172.2k)
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@monaco-editor/react: @monaco-editor/react npm registry, @monaco-editor/react npm downloads, @monaco-editor/react GitHub. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.
react-monaco-editor: react-monaco-editor npm registry, react-monaco-editor npm downloads, react-monaco-editor GitHub. Data fetched 25 Sept 2026.
Indexability: Indexed.