A rich-text editor for Vue.js

tiptap

A renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js

Why I built tiptap

I was looking for a text editor for Vue.js and found some solutions that didn’t really satisfy me. The editor should be easy to extend and not based on old dependencies such as jQuery. For React there is already a great editor called Slate.js, which impresses with its modularity. I came across Prosemirror and decided to build on it. Prosemirror is a toolkit for building rich-text editors that are already in use at many well-known companies such as Atlassian or New York Times.

What does renderless mean?

With renderless components you’ll have (almost) full control over markup and styling. I don’t want to tell you what a menu should look like or where it should be rendered in the DOM. That’s all up to you. There is also a good article about renderless components by Adam Wathan.

How is the data stored under the hood?

You can save your data as a raw HTML string or can get a JSON-serializable representation of your document. And of course, you can pass these two types back to the editor.

Examples

To check out some live examples, visit tiptap.scrumpy.io.

Installation

npm install tiptap

or

yarn add tiptap

Basic Setup

<template>
  <editor-content :editor="editor" />
</template>

<script>
// Import the editor
import { Editor, EditorContent } from 'tiptap'

export default {
  components: {
    EditorContent,
  },
  data() {
    return {
      editor: null,
    }
  },
  mounted() {
    this.editor = new Editor({
      content: '<p>This is just a boring paragraph</p>',
    })
  },
  beforeDestroy() {
    this.editor.destroy()
  },
}
</script>

Editor Properties

Editor Methods

Components

EditorMenuBar

The <editor-menu-bar /> component is renderless and will receive some properties through a scoped slot.

Example

<template>
  <editor-menu-bar :editor="editor" v-slot="{ commands, isActive }">
    <div>
      <button :class="{ 'is-active': isActive.bold() }" @click="commands.bold">
        Bold
      </button>
      <button :class="{ 'is-active': isActive.heading({ level: 2 }) }" @click="commands.heading({ level: 2 })">
        H2
      </button>
    </div>
  </editor-menu-bar>
</template>

EditorMenuBubble

The <editor-menu-bubble /> component is renderless and will receive some properties through a scoped slot.

Example

<template>
  <editor-menu-bubble :editor="editor" v-slot="{ commands, isActive, menu }">
    <div
      :class="{ 'is-active': menu.isActive }"
      :style="`left: ${menu.left}px; bottom: ${menu.bottom}px;`"
    >
      <button :class="{ 'is-active': isActive.bold() }" @click="commands.bold">
        Bold
      </button>
      <button :class="{ 'is-active': isActive.heading({ level: 2 }) }" @click="commands.heading({ level: 2 })">
        H2
      </button>
    </div>
  </editor-menu-bubble>
</template>

EditorFloatingMenu

The <editor-floating-menu /> component is renderless and will receive some properties through a scoped slot.

Example

<template>
  <editor-floating-menu :editor="editor" v-slot="{ commands, isActive, menu }">
    <div
      :class="{ 'is-active': menu.isActive }"
      :style="`top: ${menu.top}px`"
    >
      <button :class="{ 'is-active': isActive.bold() }" @click="commands.bold">
        Bold
      </button>
      <button :class="{ 'is-active': isActive.heading({ level: 2 }) }" @click="commands.heading({ level: 2 })">
        H2
      </button>
    </div>
  </editor-floating-menu>
</template>

Extensions

By default, the editor will only support paragraphs. Other nodes and marks are available as extensions. There is a package called tiptap-extensions with the most basic nodes, marks, and plugins.

Available Extensions

<template>
  <div>
    <editor-menu-bar :editor="editor" v-slot="{ commands, isActive }">
        <button :class="{ 'is-active': isActive.bold() }" @click="commands.bold">
          Bold
        </button>
    </editor-menu-bar>
    <editor-content :editor="editor" />
  </div>
</template>

<script>
import { Editor, EditorContent, EditorMenuBar } from 'tiptap'
import {
  Blockquote,
  CodeBlock,
  HardBreak,
  Heading,
  OrderedList,
  BulletList,
  ListItem,
  TodoItem,
  TodoList,
  Bold,
  Code,
  Italic,
  Link,
  Strike,
  Underline,
  History,
} from 'tiptap-extensions'

export default {
  components: {
    EditorMenuBar,
    EditorContent,
  },
  data() {
    return {
      editor: new Editor({
        extensions: [
          new Blockquote(),
          new CodeBlock(),
          new HardBreak(),
          new Heading({ levels: [1, 2, 3] }),
          new BulletList(),
          new OrderedList(),
          new ListItem(),
          new TodoItem(),
          new TodoList(),
          new Bold(),
          new Code(),
          new Italic(),
          new Link(),
          new Strike(),
          new Underline(),
          new History(),
        ],
        content: `
          <h1>Yay Headlines!</h1>
          <p>All these <strong>cool tags</strong> are working now.</p>
        `,
      }),
    }
  },
  beforeDestroy() {
    this.editor.destroy()
  },
}
</script>

Create Custom Extensions

The most powerful feature of tiptap is that you can create your own extensions. There are 3 types of extensions.

Extension Class

Node|Mark Class

Create a Node

Let’s take a look at a real example. This is basically how the default blockquote node from tiptap-extensions looks like.

import { Node } from 'tiptap'
import { wrappingInputRule, setBlockType, toggleWrap } from 'tiptap-commands'

export default class BlockquoteNode extends Node {

  // choose a unique name
  get name() {
    return 'blockquote'
  }

  // the prosemirror schema object
  // take a look at https://prosemirror.net/docs/guide/#schema for a detailed explanation
  get schema() {
    return {
      content: 'block+',
      group: 'block',
      defining: true,
      draggable: false,
      // define how the editor will detect your node from pasted HTML
      // every blockquote tag will be converted to this blockquote node
      parseDOM: [
        { tag: 'blockquote' },
      ],
      // this is how this node will be rendered
      // in this case a blockquote tag with a class called `awesome-blockquote` will be rendered
      // the '0' stands for its text content inside
      toDOM: () => ['blockquote', { class: 'awesome-blockquote' }, 0],
    }
  }

  // this command will be called from menus to add a blockquote
  // `type` is the prosemirror schema object for this blockquote
  // `schema` is a collection of all registered nodes and marks
  commands({ type, schema }) {
    return () => toggleWrap(type)
  }

  // here you can register some shortcuts
  // in this case you can create a blockquote with `ctrl` + `>`
  keys({ type }) {
    return {
      'Ctrl->': toggleWrap(type),
    }
  }

  // a blockquote will be created when you are on a new line and type `>` followed by a space
  inputRules({ type }) {
    return [
      wrappingInputRule(/^\s*>\s$/, type),
    ]
  }

}

Create a Node as a Vue Component

The real power of the nodes comes in combination with Vue components. Let us build an iframe node, where you can change its URL (this can also be found in our examples).

import { Node } from 'tiptap'

export default class IframeNode extends Node {

  get name() {
    return 'iframe'
  }

  get schema() {
    return {
      // here you have to specify all values that can be stored in this node
      attrs: {
        src: {
          default: null,
        },
      },
      group: 'block',
      selectable: false,
      // parseDOM and toDOM is still required to make copy and paste work
      parseDOM: [{
        tag: 'iframe',
        getAttrs: dom => ({
          src: dom.getAttribute('src'),
        }),
      }],
      toDOM: node => ['iframe', {
        src: node.attrs.src,
        frameborder: 0,
        allowfullscreen: 'true',
      }],
    }
  }

  // return a vue component
  // this can be an object or an imported component
  get view() {
    return {
      // there are some props available
      // `node` is a Prosemirror Node Object
      // `updateAttrs` is a function to update attributes defined in `schema`
      // `view` is the ProseMirror view instance
      // `options` is an array of your extension options
      // `selected`
      props: ['node', 'updateAttrs', 'view'],
      computed: {
        src: {
          get() {
            return this.node.attrs.src
          },
          set(src) {
            // we cannot update `src` itself because `this.node.attrs` is immutable
            this.updateAttrs({
              src,
            })
          },
        },
      },
      template: `
        <div class="iframe">
          <iframe class="iframe__embed" :src="src"></iframe>
          <input class="iframe__input" type="text" v-model="src" v-if="view.editable" />
        </div>
      `,
    }
  }

}

NodeView Prop Types

Editor Methods

Development Setup

Currently, only Yarn is supported for development because of a feature called workspaces we are using here.

# install dependencies
yarn install

# serve examples at localhost:3000
yarn start

# build dist files for packages
yarn build:packages

# build dist files for examples
yarn build:examples

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.

Credits

• Philipp Kühn
• Christoph Flathmann
• Erick Wilder
• Marius Tolzmann
• All Contributors

Packages Using Tiptap

• Laravel Nova Tiptap Editor Field by @manogi
• WYSIWYG editor for Vuetify by @iliyaZelenko
• Quasar Tiptap Demo @kfields
• Python Library that converts tiptap JSON @scrolltech
• WYSIWYG editor for Element UI by @Leecason

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License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.