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NIB

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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.

Nib not only has good rich text editing capabilities but also addresses complex editing requirements like tracking changes made to a document, adding comments in document, collaborative editing and more...

Editor image

Setup

Setup of the editor is quite straight forward. It is required to be installed from npm.

Installing packages:

Either npm or yarn commands can be used.

npm i nib-core --save

Writing editor component:

import React from "react";
import Editor from "nib-core";

const MyEditor = () => <Editor />;

Please note that the lib does not work server side.

Props

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

Features

Support for almost all browsers and devices
Multiple rich text styling options like bold, italic, underline, strike, subscript, superscript, text color, filll color, etc
Support for different block types paragraph, h1 - h6, blockquote etc
Support for hyperlinks
Support for nested ordered and unordered lists
Support for images with options like wrapping, aligning, re-sizing or linking images
Support for inline mode with floating toolbar
Support for customized display - full page, word like display, etc
Allow undo and redo changes.
Help menu that display supported formatting options and their keyboard shortcuts
Changing look and feel of editor using different themes
Convert prosemirror JSON to and from markdown
Convert prosemirror JSON to and from HTML
Source code editing
Table with advance options like add/remove column/row, resize columns, etc
Support for displaying video from sources like Youtube or Vimeo
Flexibility to add custom plugin
Track changes make of document along with any metadata saved about the change like username, timestamp, etc
Adding / editing comments to document
Collaborative editing with multiple users on same document