Quill.js glossary

This article was originally published at https://gist.github.com/joepie91/46241ef1ce89c74958da0fdd7d04eb55 . 
 
 
 Since Quill.js doesn't seem to document its strange jargon-y terms anywhere, here's a glossary that I've put together for it. No guarantees that it's correct! But I've done my best. 
 Quill - The WYSIWYG editor library 
 Parchment - The internal model used in Quill to implement the document tree 
 Scroll - A document, expressed as a tree, technically also a Blot (node) itself, specifically the root node 
 Blot - A node in the document tree 
 Block (Blot) - A block-level node 
 Inline (Blot) - An inline (formatting) node 
 Text (Blot) - A node that contains only(!) raw text contents 
 Break (Blot) - A node that contains nothing, used as a placeholder where there is no actual content 
 "a format" - A specific formatting attribute (width, height, is bold, ...) 
 .format(...) - The API method that is used to set a formatting attribute on some selection