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,
  AlignDropdown,
  BackgroundColorPicker,
  BoldButton,
  CodeFormatButton,
  FloatingLinkEditor,
  FontFamilyDropdown,
  FontSizeDropdown,
  InsertDropdown,
  InsertLinkButton,
  ItalicButton,
  TextColorPicker,
  TextFormatDropdown,
  UnderlineButton,
  Divider,
} from 'verbum';

const NoteViewer: FC = () => {
  return (
    <EditorComposer>
      <Editor hashtagsEnabled={true}>
        <ToolbarPlugin defaultFontSize="20px">
          <FontFamilyDropdown />
          <FontSizeDropdown />
          <Divider />
          <BoldButton />
          <ItalicButton />
          <UnderlineButton />
          <CodeFormatButton />
          <InsertLinkButton />
          <TextColorPicker />
          <BackgroundColorPicker />
          <TextFormatDropdown />
          <Divider />
          <InsertDropdown enablePoll={true} />
          <Divider />
          <AlignDropdown />
        </ToolbarPlugin>
      </Editor>
    </EditorComposer>
  );
};

export default NoteViewer;

API

<EditorComposer />

Property	Type		description
children	ReactNode	required	Nested child component which is the Editor itself
initialEditorState	InitialEditorStateType	optional	The initial state of the editor

<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
emojiPickerEnabled	boolean	optional	Use : for search and paste emoji, default is false
actionsEnabled	boolean	optional	Enables the actions toolbar, 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
isEditable	boolean	optional	Enables read-only mode for the editor, default is false
initialEditorState	string	optional	JSON string to initialize the initial content of the editor.
onChange	(editorState: string, editorInstance?: LexicalEditor) => void	optional	Accessing the current editor state and the active editor instance
locale	'en', 'fr', 'ptBr', 'ru', null;	optional	Enables localization in the language of your choice, default is en. Available languages are en, fr, ptBr and ru

Automatic browser language detection Support

Verbum supports automatic browser language detection by default if locale not provided. If the browser language is set to fr, the editor will be automatically localized in French. If the browser language is set to en, the editor will be automatically localized in English. If the browser language is set to any other language, the editor will be automatically localized in English.

Plugins

<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

Toolbar components

<FontFamilyDropdown />

Add your own font families.

Property	Type		description
fontOptions	FontOptions = [string, string][]	optional	List of fonts

<FontSizeDropdown />

Add your own font sizes.

Property	Type		description
fontSizeOptions	FontOptions = [string, string][]	optional	List of font sizes

<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
enablePoll	boolean	optional	Enables poll inserting feature
enableImage	{ enable: boolean; maxWidth: number };	optional	Enables image inserting feature, set max width
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

<MentionsPlugin />

Property	Type		description
searchData	SearchData<A>	required	Searching data using input string
getTypeaheadValues	GetTypeaheadValues<A>	required	Search data transormation

GetTypeaheadValues<A>

Property	Type		description
url	string	required	URL adress
value	string	required	Mention menu option value
picture	JSX.Element	required	Mention menu option picture
popoverCard	PopoverCard<A>	optional	Displaying a popup card when hovering over a username

PopoverCard<A>

Property	Type		description
card	(data: A) => JSX.Element	required	Popover card, depends on <A> type
offset	OffsetCard	required	Card offset (left, top)

Plugins support

Plugin name	Working	Description	Source
ActionsPlugin	✅	Action menu in the right bottom corner	Editor.tsx
AutoLinkPlugin	✅	Auto highlight links	Editor.tsx
CharacterStylesPopupPlugin	✅	Modal style editor for selected text	Independent
ClickableLinkPlugin	✅	Enable to open links in new tab	Independent
CodeHighlightPlugin	✅	Code Block with different languages	Independent
CommentPlugin	❌		CharacterStylesPopupPlugin
EmojisPlugin	✅	A few emojis	Editor.tsx
EmojiPickerPlugin	✅	Emoji picker (emoji-list.ts)	Editor.tsx
EquationsPlugin	✂️	Katex, It's too heavy (cut out)	InsertDropdown.tsx
ExcalidrawPlugin	✂️	Excalidraw (cut out)	InsertDropdown.tsx
HorizontalRulePlugin	✅	Horizontal divider	InsertDropdown.tsx
ImagesPlugin	❌	Insert file only (no URLs)	InsertDropdown.tsx
KeywordsPlugin	❌		Independent
ListMaxIndentLevelPlugin	✅	Max Indent Level (bullet, numeric)	Independent
MarkdownShortcutPlugin	✅	Convert into Markdown format	ActionsPlugin
MentionsPlugin	✅	Mentions, starts with @	Independent
PollPlugin	❌	Poll, need test with many votes	InsertDropdown.tsx
SpeechToTextPlugin	✅	Voice recognition to text	ActionsPlugin
StickyPlugin	❌	Yellow sticker, there is a bug with text style	InsertDropdown.tsx
TabFocusPlugin
TableActionMenuPlugin	✅	Create table	InsertDropdown.tsx
TestRecorderPlugin
TreeViewPlugin
TwitterPlugin	✅	Insert twits	InsertDropdown.tsx
TypingPerfPlugin
YouTubePlugin	✅	Insert YouTube videos	InsertDropdown.tsx

Development

For development use:

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

Also you can test it locally using Storybook:

$ 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.