quill-render is a heavy dependency that may be done-away with

[k8n]

https://github.com/CroudSupport/vue-quill/blob/fbca7f484d7f54e965d3afa5438eb0b8a551d3f0/package.json#L36

May I suggest a more lightweight approach (done with jQuery, but could probably be done without):

var $h = $('<div>' + this.quill.container.querySelector('.ql-editor').innerHTML + '</div>');
// take only the basic markup
$h.find('*:not(em):not(u):not(strong):not(s):not(br)').contents().unwrap();
var html_content = $h.html();

[BrockReece]

The above code would need us to initialise Quill on the page, right?
Quill-render was designed to allow people to convert a Quill delta to html without loading Quill which I presumed would be lighter, I am not married to that idea though. What does Quill's readonly editor look like?

[Gladskih]

While there is no official support of delta-to-html rendering except instantiating Quill the last is the safest way. Now we nearly have next version of Quill (even if the project is dead already) and old custom renderers do not stick with it well.