@ckeditor/ckeditor5-react

What is @ckeditor/ckeditor5-react?

@ckeditor/ckeditor5-react is a React component that integrates CKEditor 5, a modern JavaScript rich text editor, into React applications. It provides a rich set of features for creating and editing content, including text formatting, image and media embedding, and collaborative editing.

What are @ckeditor/ckeditor5-react's main functionalities?

Basic Usage

This code demonstrates the basic usage of the @ckeditor/ckeditor5-react package. It imports the CKEditor component and the ClassicEditor build, then renders the editor with some initial data and event handlers for ready, change, blur, and focus events.

import React from 'react';
import { CKEditor } from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-react';
import ClassicEditor from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-build-classic';

function App() {
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <h2>Using CKEditor 5 with React</h2>
      <CKEditor
        editor={ ClassicEditor }
        data="<p>Hello from CKEditor 5!</p>"
        onReady={ editor => {
          console.log( 'Editor is ready to use!', editor );
        } }
        onChange={ ( event, editor ) => {
          const data = editor.getData();
          console.log( { event, editor, data } );
        } }
        onBlur={ ( event, editor ) => {
          console.log( 'Blur.', editor );
        } }
        onFocus={ ( event, editor ) => {
          console.log( 'Focus.', editor );
        } }
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Custom Configuration

This code demonstrates how to use a custom configuration with the CKEditor component. The editorConfiguration object specifies a custom toolbar and heading options, which are then passed to the CKEditor component via the config prop.

import React from 'react';
import { CKEditor } from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-react';
import ClassicEditor from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-build-classic';

function App() {
  const editorConfiguration = {
    toolbar: [ 'heading', '|', 'bold', 'italic', 'link', 'bulletedList', 'numberedList', 'blockQuote' ],
    heading: {
      options: [
        { model: 'paragraph', title: 'Paragraph', class: 'ck-heading_paragraph' },
        { model: 'heading1', view: 'h1', title: 'Heading 1', class: 'ck-heading_heading1' },
        { model: 'heading2', view: 'h2', title: 'Heading 2', class: 'ck-heading_heading2' }
      ]
    }
  };

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <h2>Using CKEditor 5 with Custom Configuration</h2>
      <CKEditor
        editor={ ClassicEditor }
        config={ editorConfiguration }
        data="<p>Custom configuration example.</p>"
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Using Plugins

This code demonstrates how to use plugins with the CKEditor component. The Alignment plugin is imported and added to the ClassicEditor build. The editorConfiguration object includes the alignment options, which are then passed to the CKEditor component via the config prop.

import React from 'react';
import { CKEditor } from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-react';
import ClassicEditor from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-build-classic';
import Alignment from '@ckeditor/ckeditor5-alignment/src/alignment';

ClassicEditor.builtinPlugins.push( Alignment );

function App() {
  const editorConfiguration = {
    toolbar: [ 'heading', '|', 'bold', 'italic', 'link', 'alignment', 'bulletedList', 'numberedList', 'blockQuote' ],
    alignment: {
      options: [ 'left', 'center', 'right', 'justify' ]
    }
  };

  return (
    <div className="App">
      <h2>Using CKEditor 5 with Plugins</h2>
      <CKEditor
        editor={ ClassicEditor }
        config={ editorConfiguration }
        data="<p>Plugin example with text alignment.</p>"
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

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README

CKEditor 5 rich text editor component for React

Official CKEditor 5 rich text editor component for React.

Developer Documentation 📖

See the "Rich text editor component for React" guide in the CKEditor 5 documentation to learn more:

• Quick start
• Using CKEditr 5 Builder
• Installling from npm
• Component properties

Contributing

After cloning this repository, install necessary dependencies:

npm install

You can also use Yarn.

Running the development server

To manually test the editor integration with different versions of React, you can start the development server using one of the commands below:

npm run dev:16 # Open the demo projects using React 16.
npm run dev:18 # Open the demo projects using React 18.
npm run dev:19 # Open the demo projects using React 19.

Executing tests

To test the editor integration against a set of automated tests, run the following command:

npm run test

If you want to run the tests in watch mode, use the following command:

npm run test:watch

Building the package

To build the package that is ready to publish, use the following command:

npm run build

Releasing package

CircleCI automates the release process and can release both channels: stable (X.Y.Z) and pre-releases (X.Y.Z-alpha.X, etc.).

Before you start, you need to prepare the changelog entries.

1. Make sure the #master branch is up-to-date: git fetch && git checkout master && git pull.
2. Prepare a release branch: git checkout -b release-[YYYYMMDD] where YYYYMMDD is the current day.
3. Generate the changelog entries: yarn run changelog --branch release-[YYYYMMDD] [--from [GIT_TAG]].

   • By default, the changelog generator uses the latest published tag as a starting point for collecting commits to process.

     The --from modifier option allows overriding the default behavior. It is required when preparing the changelog entries for the next stable release while the previous one was marked as a prerelease, e.g., @alpha.

     Example: Let's assume that the v40.5.0-alpha.0 tag is our latest and that we want to release it on a stable channel. The --from modifier should be equal to --from v40.4.0.

   • This task checks what changed in each package and bumps the version accordingly. It won't create a new changelog entry if nothing changes at all. If changes were irrelevant (e.g., only dependencies), it would make an "internal changes" entry.

   • Scan the logs printed by the tool to search for errors (incorrect changelog entries). Incorrect entries (e.g., ones without the type) should be addressed. You may need to create entries for them manually. This is done directly in CHANGELOG.md (in the root directory). Make sure to verify the proposed version after you modify the changelog.

4. Commit all changes and prepare a new pull request targeting the #master branch.
5. Ping the @ckeditor/ckeditor-5-devops team to review the pull request and trigger the release process.

License

Licensed under the terms of GNU General Public License Version 2 or later. For full details about the license, please check the LICENSE.md file.

Changelog

9.3.1 (2024-10-16)

Bug fixes

• Behavior of useCKEditorCloud hook is now consistent with Vite and Next runtimes while changing properties. (commit)
• Prevent potential crashes of useMultiRootEditor during the initialization phase when setting the new state of the multi-root editor with an attached watchdog. Closes #542. (commit)
• Update roots with modified content only. (commit)