FREE export BlockNote documents to PDF, Word under MIT license no GPL 3.0

[opestro]

We published an MIT Word (.docx) exporter for BlockNote document JSON, which we use in production at coconutStudio.

This is a small, independent package. It reads public BlockNote document JSON and uses the MIT docx library to build a Word file. It is neither a fork nor a copy of @blocknote/xl-docx-exporter, and it is not a replacement for BlockNote XL.

If you need the official exporter suite, the PDF, editor-schema mappings, and the rest of XL, use those packages and support the BlockNote project. This is for a narrower case: apps that only need Word output from public document JSON, under MIT.

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@coconutstudio/blocknote-word-exporter-mit
GitHub: https://github.com/coconutstudio-io/blocknote-word-exporter-mit

[YousefED]

Hi Opestro,

While you're free to build independent exporters this way, I'd like to push back on positioning it as an escape from the official packages. Every app using BlockNote benefits from the core staying actively maintained. The dual licensing model (the XL packages) is in place to encourage people to contribute back financially so we can run a long term sustainable open source project.

Being a good open source citizen isn't just about license compliance, in my opinion it's also about supporting the projects your product depends on, whether through licenses, sponsorship, or contributions. Building value on top of BlockNote while actively marketing a way around supporting it isn't the community behavior that keeps projects like this alive.

Thanks for your understanding,

[opestro]

Hi,

Thanks for writing this. I take the point, and I should have been clearer.

This package isn't meant to bypass supporting BlockNote, and it isn't a substitute for the XL suite. coconutStudio is built on BlockNote, and I agree the core staying maintained depends on people contributing back, whether through licenses, sponsorship, or code.

What we published is a small, independent Word exporter we wrote for our own product. It reads public BlockNote document JSON and builds a .docx with the MIT docx library. It is not a fork or copy of @blocknote/xl-docx-exporter, and it does not cover the rest of XL (PDF, official mappings, editor-schema exporters, and so on). We needed that one piece under MIT for a closed-source app. We didn't set out to replace XL or market a bypass of the dual-license model.

I'll reword the original post so it doesn't read as "here's how to skip the XL license." If you need the official exporters and the rest of XL, the right path is still the official packages.

Appreciate the work you put into BlockNote.