vimee

Headless Vim Engine for the Web

Pure functions. Zero dependencies. Any framework.

What is vimee?

Give it a keystroke and state, get back new state and actions

Pure TypeScript. No runtime baggage. The core engine is just 2.8kB gzipped

Works with React, Vue, Svelte, and vanilla JS through thin wrappers

A real Vim editor. Right here in the browser.

N I V

Normal, Insert, Visual, Visual-Line, Visual-Block, Command-Line

hjkl

w, b, e, 0, $, gg, G, f, t, /, ? and more

3dd

d, c, y, >, < combined with counts and motions

iw, aw, i", a(, it and more

/pattern, :s/old/new/g

Record, playback, and named marks

Everything is a pure function. No DOM access. No side effects.

Input keystroke + state

→

Processor processKeystroke()

→

Output newState + VimAction[]

cursor-move content-change mode-change yank save status-message

Built in the open. MIT licensed.