Despite various options available for rich text editing in html, it continues to be extremely challenging area. I found prosemirror to be the best available solution for the problem. It is great work by author Marijn Haverbeke.
Making an editor ground up from a framework is still much work, the project aims at building components for rich text editing using prosemirror. These components can be quickly integrated into react or even non-react applications.
Setup of the editor is quite straight forward. It is required to be installed from npm.
Either npm or yarn commands can be used.
npm i nib-core --save
import React from "react";
import Editor from "nib-core";
const MyEditor = () => <Editor />;
Props supported by the editor.
| S.No. | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | addons | array of plugins for adding functionality to core editor |
| 2 | autoFocus | to focus editor by default |
| 3 | config | configuring the plugin, toolbar etc in editor, here are default configurations |
| 4 | defaultValue | value to initialize editor content |
| 5 | licenseKey | license key for nib editor |
| 6 | onChange | callback which is called on any change in the editor |
| 7 | spellCheck | boolean property to enable default browser spellCheck in the editor |
| 8 | styleConfig | used to do more detailed style changes in the editor, here is the default |
| 9 | theme | theming of the editor, here is default theme |
MIT
This repository includes code for all basic editor features which are freely available. Advance editor features like nib drive, tracking, comments and collaborative editing are not open source.