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Advanced Setup

Make sure you read the core concepts page before setup advance and check if the simple usage is good enough for you.

Setting Up Our Custom Editor Directory

Step 1 - creating the directory

Create a new folder in your project called editor-web (or any other name) - advance setup will let you full control on what running inside the editor webview, so we need to create a separate folder that will include code that will run inside the webview and will have different build process and tsconfig

Step 2 - adding tsconfig

Create editor-web/tsconfig.json:

editor-web/tsconfig.json
{
"$schema": "https://json.schemastore.org/tsconfig",
"_version": "2.0.0",
"compilerOptions": {
"lib": ["dom", "dom.iterable", "esnext"],
"module": "esnext",
"paths": {
"@10play/tentap-editor": [
"../node_modules/@10play/tentap-editor/lib-web/typescript/webEditorUtils/index.d.ts"
]
},
"moduleResolution": "bundler",
"target": "es2015",
"allowJs": true,
"allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
"esModuleInterop": true,
"forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true,
"isolatedModules": true,
"jsx": "react-jsx",
"noEmit": true,
"noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": true,
"resolveJsonModule": true,
"skipLibCheck": true,
"strict": true
}
}

It's important to configure paths so on web the web types will be used instead of native types.

Step 3 - updating root tsconfig

Add exclude on the root tsconfig.json: "exclude": ["./editor-web"]

Step 4 - Add index.html AdvancedEditor.tsx and index.tsx

Add the following files

index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
<title>RichTextEditor</title>
</head>
<style>
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#root > div:nth-of-type(1) {
overflow: auto;
height: 100%;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
}
#root div .ProseMirror {
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}
.ProseMirror:focus {
outline: none;
}
</style>
<body>
<div id="root"></div>
<script type="module" src="/index.tsx"></script>
</body>
</html>
AdvancedEditor.tsx
import React from 'react';
import { EditorContent } from '@tiptap/react';
import { useTenTap, CoreBridge } from '@10play/tentap-editor';
import Document from '@tiptap/extension-document';
import Paragraph from '@tiptap/extension-paragraph';
import Text from '@tiptap/extension-text';

/**
* Here we control the web side of our custom editor
*/
export const AdvancedEditor = () => {
const editor = useTenTap({
bridges: [CoreBridge],
tiptapOptions: {
extensions: [Document, Paragraph, Text],
},
});
return <EditorContent editor={editor} />;
};
index.tsx
import React from 'react';
import { createRoot } from 'react-dom/client';
import { AdvancedEditor } from './AdvancedEditor';

/**
* This is the entrypoint for the "web" part of our editor that will be built with vite
*/

declare global {
interface Window {
contentInjected: boolean | undefined;
}
}

/**
* On android - react-native-webview there is a bug where sometimes the content
* is injected after the window is loaded https://github.com/react-native-webview/react-native-webview/pull/2960
* To overcome this we will check if the content is injected before rendering the editor
*/
const contentInjected = () => window.contentInjected;
let interval: NodeJS.Timeout;
interval = setInterval(() => {
if (!contentInjected()) return;
// Once content is injected into the webview, we can render the editor
const container = document.getElementById('root');
const root = createRoot(container!);
root.render(<AdvancedEditor />);
clearInterval(interval);
return;
}, 1);

Step 5 - adding a bundler

We chose to use vite as our bundler so first run

yarn add -D vite @vitejs/plugin-react vite-plugin-singlefile

And now let's create vite.config.ts and configure it

vite.config.ts
import { defineConfig } from 'vite';
import react from '@vitejs/plugin-react';
import { viteSingleFile } from 'vite-plugin-singlefile';

// This config is used to build the web editor into a single file

export default defineConfig({
root: 'src/editor-web', // This should be the directory of your index.html
build: {
outDir: 'build',
},
resolve: {
alias: [
{
find: '@10play/tentap-editor', // On our web bundle we only want to include web related code
replacement: '@10play/tentap-editor/web',
},
// We alias tiptap view and state to use the internal version of tiptap to avoid this error https://github.com/ueberdostiptap/issues/3869#issuecomment-2167931620
{
find: '@tiptap/pm/view',
replacement: '@10play/tentap-editor/web',
},
{
find: '@tiptap/pm/state',
replacement: '@10play/tentap-editor/web',
},
],
},
plugins: [react(), viteSingleFile()],
server: {
port: 3000,
},
});
It's important to have the alias configuration so vite will not load react-native code

Step 6 - adding build scripts

Add scripts on package.json so it will be easy to run/build editor-web:

package.json
"scripts": {
...
"editor:dev": "vite --config ./editor-web/vite.config.ts",
"editor:build": "vite --config ./editor-web/vite.config.ts build && yarn editor:post-build",
"editor:post-build":"node ./node_modules/@10play/tentap-editor/scripts/buildEditor.js ./editor-web/build/index.html",
"reverse-android": "adb reverse tcp:3000 tcp:3000",
}

editor:dev - Run the editor web in dev mode
editor:build - Build the editor web, probably need to add to your deploy/build process
editor:post-build - This will take your built html file, and paste into a a ts and exports a string editorHtml
which we can then later use as the source of our RichText.
reverse-android - On android need to reverse ports so it will be able to work with DEV / DEV_SERVER_URL props

Step 7 - using our custom editor

Outside of editor-web update your EditorBridge to used the html we just built.

import { editorHtml } from './editor-web/build/editorHtml';
const editor = useEditorBridge({
customSource: editorHtml,
...
});

Step 8 - Install react-dom

yarn add react-dom

yarn add -D @types/react-dom

You basically done with the advance setup now you have full control of the editor-web you can write your own bridgeExtensions add additional tiptapExtensions

Alternative Setup

info

In case you are using Expo you have to use this Alternative Setup for dev mode on your advance setup editor

There is an alternative vite setup that does not require a vite dev server as suggested in #80. This setup does not require we add the DEV prop

Update vite.config.ts

In vite.config.ts replace plugins with

vite.config.ts
const exec =  require('child_process').exec;

...
plugins: [
react(),
viteSingleFile(),
{
name: 'postbuild-commands',
closeBundle: async () => {
exec('yarn editor:post-build', (error, stdout, stderr) => {
if (error) {
console.error(`exec error: ${error}`);
return;
}
});
},
},
],

And add emptyOutDir: false to the build options

vite.config.ts
build: {
outDir: 'build',
emptyOutDir: false,
},

Update package.json

Update the editor:dev script to watch the advanced editor instead of running a dev-server, the hot reload will be handled by metro and not vite.

"editor:dev": "vite --config ./editor-web/vite.config.ts -w build"