# Use cases

*Source: https://www.editorstack.cc/use-cases — last updated 2026-09-17. Licensed CC BY 4.0 with attribution to EditorStack.*

- [Build vs buy: should you build a visual editor or license one?](https://www.editorstack.cc/use-cases/build-vs-buy-visual-editor) — Building on an open-source editor engine costs roughly 520 engineering hours before you have something customers can use. Here is the calculation against commercial SDK pricing, and the cases where building genuinely wins.
- [Building a drag-and-drop landing page builder into your SaaS](https://www.editorstack.cc/use-cases/drag-and-drop-landing-page-builder-for-saas) — Letting customers build landing pages inside your product is a different project from letting your marketing team build them. Here is the scope, the library choice and the three decisions that determine whether it ships.
- [Email template builder for SaaS: build it or buy it](https://www.editorstack.cc/use-cases/email-template-builder-for-saas) — Four vendors sell embeddable email builders at $60 to $350 per month entry, and their metering models differ more than their features. Building on GrapesJS is free and hands you the mail-client problem forever.
- [How to embed a page builder in a React application](https://www.editorstack.cc/use-cases/embed-page-builder-in-react-app) — Four viable routes for putting a visual page builder inside a React app, with the measured bundle cost of each, the questions that eliminate two of them immediately, and what nobody tells you about the work after integration.
- [Headless CMS visual editing: how it works and what it costs](https://www.editorstack.cc/use-cases/headless-cms-visual-editing) — Storyblok, Sanity, Contentful Studio and Directus all offer visual editing over structured content, and all four mean something different by it. Here is what each actually does.
- [Adding a visual editor to a Next.js application](https://www.editorstack.cc/use-cases/visual-editor-for-nextjs) — Every editor in this dataset mounts against a live DOM, so none of them server-render. Here is the App Router pattern that works, the libraries that fit it best, and the mistakes that cost a day.
- [Visual editor options for Vue applications](https://www.editorstack.cc/use-cases/vue-visual-editor-options) — The React ecosystem has Puck, Craft.js and Plate; Vue has none of them. Here is what actually works in a Vue application, and why the answer is usually a framework-agnostic engine.
- [White-label website builder for agencies: the real options](https://www.editorstack.cc/use-cases/white-label-website-builder-for-agencies) — Agencies want a builder under their own brand without per-site subscriptions. That rules out Webflow and most hosted SDKs. Here is what remains, and what each route costs per client site.