Company
Date Published
Author
Shu Ding, Alice Alexandra Moore
Word count
848
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

The concept of text wrapping is crucial in improving readability on websites, particularly for titles and headings. To address this issue, several projects have been developed to balance text, including Adobe's `balance-text` project, the New York Times' `text-balancer`, and a proposal from the CSS Working Group for balanced text as a native CSS feature. React Wrap Balancer, a lightweight tool, builds upon these efforts with an efficient algorithm that minimizes content wrapper width to match line lengths, reducing legibility issues and layout shifts. By using React Wrap Balancer, developers can improve readability on their websites, especially in client-side and server-side rendered apps, and even integrate it into Svelte projects.