Verbum - A fully flexible text editor based on lexical framework

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Verbum

Verbum – Flexible Text Editor for React

Verbum is a fully flexible rich text editor based on lexical-playground and lexical framework.

⚠️ As the Lexical framework is currently in early development, this component library is also likely to change quite often

Installation

npm install verbum --save

Demo

Live demo is coming soon…

Usage

import { FC } from 'react';
import { EditorComposer, Editor, ToolbarPlugin } from 'verbum';

const NoteViewer: FC = () => {
  return (
    <EditorComposer>
      <Editor hashtagsEnables={true}>
        <ToolbarPlugin defaultFontSize="20px">
          <InsertDropdown enablePool={true} />
          <AlignDropdown />
        <ToolbarPlugin />
      </Editor>
    </EditorComposer>
  );
};

export default NoteViewer;

API

<Editor />

Property Type description
children ReactNode optional Nested child components, like the ToolbarPlugin
hashtagsEnabled boolean optional Enables the automatic hashtag highlighting, default is false
autoLinkEnabled boolean optional Enables the automatic link highlighting, default is false
emojisEnabled boolean optional Replaces the emoji combiniations with its corresponding symbol, default is false
placeholder string optional The default content of the editor when it is first loaded
listMaxIndent number optional The maximum indent capacity of any listed element, the default is 7

<ToolbarPlugin />

Property Type description
children React.ReactElement[] optional Nested child components, like the InsertDropdown
defaultFontSize string optional The default font size selected when the editor first loaded, default value is 15px
defaultFontColor string optional The default font color selected when the editor first loaded, default value is #000
defaultBgColor string optional The default text background color selected when the editor first loaded, default value is #fff
defaultFontFamily string optional The default font family selected when the editor first loaded, default value is Arial

<InsertDropdown />

Property Type description
enableTable boolean optional Enables table inserting feature
enableYoutube boolean optional Enables youtube video inserting feature
enableTwitter boolean optional Enables tweet inserting feature
enablePool boolean optional Enables poll inserting feature
enableImage boolean optional Enables image inserting feature
enableEquations boolean optional Enables equation inserting feature
enableExcalidraw boolean optional Enables diagram inserting feature
enableHorizontalRule boolean optional Enables the horizontal rule inserting for layout
enableStickyNote boolean optional Enables stick note inserting for layout

Development

For development use:

$ npm install (in case of an error, run `npm install --legacy-peer-deps`)
$ npm start
$ npm run storybook

Future plans

  • Test coverage
  • Programmatic access to the editor input as JSON
  • Localization
  • Ready templates with different options (MUI, Bootstrap, etc…)
  • Dark/Light modes
  • Custom styling flexibility
  • Disassembling all of the toolbar to enable using them as nested components, increasing the flexibility
  • Enabling adjusting editor settings such read-only mode and etc. programmatically

License

Licensed under MIT License.

GitHub

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