@blocknote/prosemirror-suggest-changes

@handlewithcare/prosemirror-suggest-changes

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Development of this library is sponsored by the kind folks at dskrpt.de!

Installation

Install @handlewithcare/prosemirror-suggest-changes and its peer dependencies:

npm:

npm install @handlewithcare/prosemirror-suggest-changes prosemirror-view prosemirror-transform prosemirror-state prosemirror-model

yarn:

yarn add @handlewithcare/prosemirror-suggest-changes prosemirror-view prosemirror-transform prosemirror-state prosemirror-model

• Usage
• How it works
• API
  • Schema
    • insertion
    • deletion
    • modification
    • addSuggestionMarks
  • Commands
    • selectSuggestion
    • revertSuggestion
    • revertSuggestions
    • applySuggestion
    • applySuggestions
    • enableSuggestChanges
    • disableSuggestChanges
    • toggleSuggestChanges
  • Plugin
    • suggestChanges
    • suggestChangesKey
    • isSuggestChangesEnabled
  • dispatchTransaction Decorator
    • withSuggestChanges

Usage

First, add the suggestion marks to your schema:

import { addSuggestionMarks } from "@handlewithcare/prosemirror-suggest-changes";

export const schema = new Schema({
  nodes: {
    ...nodes,
    doc: {
      ...nodes.doc,
      // We need to allow these marks as block marks as well,
      // to support block-level suggestions, like inserting a
      // new list item
      marks: "insertion modification deletion",
    },
  },
  marks: addSuggestionMarks(marks),
});

Then, add the plugin to your editor state:

import { suggestChanges } from "@handlewithcare/prosemirror-suggest-changes";

const editorState = EditorState.create({
  schema,
  doc,
  plugins: [
    // ... your other plugins
    suggestChanges(),
  ],
});

Use the dispatchTransaction decorator to intercept and transform transactions, and add suggestion decorations:

import {
  withSuggestChanges,
  getSuggestionDecorations,
} from "@handlewithcare/prosemirror-suggest-changes";

const editorEl = document.getElementById("editor")!;

const view = new EditorView(editorEl, {
  state: editorState,
  decorations: getSuggestionDecorations,
  dispatchTransaction: withSuggestChanges(),
});

And finally, use the commands to control the suggest changes state, apply suggestions, and revert suggestions. Here’s a sample view plugin that renders a simple menu with some suggestion-related commands:

import {
  toggleSuggestChanges,
  applySuggestions,
  revertSuggestions,
  isSuggestChangesEnabled,
} from "@handlewithcare/prosemirror-suggest-changes";

const suggestChangesViewPlugin = new Plugin({
  view(view) {
    const toggleButton = document.createElement("button");
    toggleButton.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Enable suggestions"));
    toggleButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
      toggleSuggestChanges(view.state, view.dispatch);
      view.focus();
    });

    const applyAllButton = document.createElement("button");
    applyAllButton.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Apply all"));
    applyAllButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
      applySuggestions(view.state, view.dispatch);
      view.focus();
    });

    const revertAllButton = document.createElement("button");
    revertAllButton.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Revert all"));
    revertAllButton.addEventListener("click", () => {
      revertSuggestions(view.state, view.dispatch);
      view.focus();
    });

    const commandsContainer = document.createElement("div");
    commandsContainer.append(applyAllButton, revertAllButton);

    const container = document.createElement("div");
    container.classList.add("menu");
    container.append(toggleButton, commandsContainer);

    view.dom.parentElement?.prepend(container);

    return {
      update() {
        if (isSuggestChangesEnabled(view.state)) {
          toggleButton.replaceChildren(
            document.createTextNode("Disable suggestions"),
          );
        } else {
          toggleButton.replaceChildren(
            document.createTextNode("Enable suggestions"),
          );
        }
      },
      destroy() {
        container.remove();
      },
    };
  },
});

How it works

This library provides three mark types:

• insertion represents newly inserted content, including new text content and new block nodes
• deletion represents content that is marked as deleted, including text and block nodes
• modification represents nodes whose marks or attrs have changed, but whose content has not changed

Additionally, this library provides:

• A plugin, which keeps track of whether suggestions are enabled or not
• A decoration set factory, which renders pilcrows (¶) to make it clear to users when block nodes have been deleted or inserted
• A set of commands (applySuggestions, revertSuggestions, applySuggestion, etc), for working with suggestions
• A "dispatchTransaction decorator", withSuggestChanges

withSuggestChanges is a function that optionally takes a dispatchTransaction function and returns a decorated dispatchTransaction function. This decorated function will, when suggestions are enabled, intercept transactions before they are applied to the state, and produce transformed transactions that suggest the intended changes, instead of directly applying them. For example, a transaction that attempts to delete the text between positions 2 and 5 in the document will be replaced with a transaction that adds the deletion mark to the text between positions 2 and 5.

If you already have a custom dispatchTransaction implementation, you can pass it to withSuggestChanges. Otherwise, it will rely on the default implementation (view.setState(view.state.apply(tr))).

const view = new EditorView(editorEl, {
  state: editorState,
  plugins,
  decorations: getSuggestionDecorations,
  dispatchTransaction: withSuggestChanges(
    /** An example dispatchTransaction that integrates with an external redux store */
    function dispatchTransaction(this: EditorView, tr: Transaction) {
      store.dispatch(transactionDispatched({ tr }));
    },
  ),
});

API

Schema

insertion

Represents newly inserted content, including new text content and new block nodes

const insertion: MarkSpec;

deletion

Represents content that is marked as deleted, including text and block nodes

const deletion: MarkSpec;

modification

Represents nodes whose marks or attrs have changed, but whose content has not changed

const modification: MarkSpec;

addSuggestionMarks

Add the deletion, insertion, and modification marks to the provided MarkSpec map.

function addSuggestionMarks<Marks extends string>(
  marks: Record<Marks, MarkSpec>,
): Record<Marks | "deletion" | "insertion" | "modification", MarkSpec>;

Commands

selectSuggestion

Command that updates the selection to cover an existing change.

function selectSuggestion(suggestionId: number): Command;

revertSuggestion

Command that reverts a given tracked change in a document.

This means that all content within the insertion mark will be deleted. The deletion mark will be removed, and their contents left in the doc. Modifications tracked in modification marks will be reverted.

function revertSuggestion(suggestionId: number): Command;

revertSuggestions

Command that reverts all tracked changes in a document.

This means that all content within insertion marks will be deleted. Deletion marks will be removed, and their contents left in the doc. Modifications tracked in modification marks will be reverted.

const revertSuggestions: Command;

applySuggestion

Command that applies a given tracked change to a document.

This means that all content within the deletion mark will be deleted. The insertion mark and modification mark will be removed, and their contents left in the doc.

function applySuggestion(suggestionId: number): Command;

applySuggestions

Command that applies all tracked changes in a document.

This means that all content within deletion marks will be deleted. Insertion marks and modification marks will be removed, and their contents left in the doc.

const applySuggestions: Command;

enableSuggestChanges

Command that enables suggest changes

const enableSuggestChanges: Command;

disableSuggestChanges

Command that disables suggest changes

const disableSuggestChanges: Command;

toggleSuggestChanges

Command that toggles suggest changes on or off

const toggleSuggestChanges: Command;

Plugin

suggestChanges

A plugin that tracks whether suggest changes is enabled. It also provides decorations that are useful for clarifying suggestions, such as pilcrows to mark when paragraph breaks have been deleted or inserted.

function suggestChanges(): Plugin<{ enabled: boolean }>;

suggestChangesKey

A plugin key for the suggestChanges plugin

const suggestChangesKey: PluginKey<{ enabled: boolean }>;

isSuggestChangesEnabled

A helper function to check whether suggest changes is enabled.

function isSuggestChangesEnabled(state: EditorState): boolean;

dispatchTransaction Decorator

withSuggestChanges

A dispatchTransaction decorator. Wrap your existing dispatchTransaction function with withSuggestChanges, or pass no arguments to use the default implementation (view.setState(view.state.apply(tr))).

The result is a dispatchTransaction function that will intercept and modify incoming transactions when suggest changes is enabled. These modified transactions will suggest changes instead of directly applying them, e.g. by marking a range with the deletion mark rather than removing it from the document.

function withSuggestChanges(
  dispatchTransaction?: EditorView["dispatch"],
): EditorView["dispatch"];