slate-history

What is slate-history?

The slate-history package is a plugin for the Slate framework that provides undo and redo functionality. It allows developers to manage the history of changes made to the editor's content, enabling users to revert to previous states or redo changes that were undone.

What are slate-history's main functionalities?

Undo

This feature allows you to undo the last operation performed on the editor. The code sample demonstrates how to set up an editor with history and perform an undo operation.

const { Editor } = require('slate');
const { withHistory } = require('slate-history');

const editor = withHistory(new Editor());

// Perform some operations
editor.insertText('Hello, world!');

// Undo the last operation
editor.undo();

Redo

This feature allows you to redo the last undone operation. The code sample shows how to set up an editor with history, perform an undo operation, and then redo it.

const { Editor } = require('slate');
const { withHistory } = require('slate-history');

const editor = withHistory(new Editor());

// Perform some operations
editor.insertText('Hello, world!');
editor.undo();

// Redo the last undone operation
editor.redo();

Clear History

This feature allows you to clear the history of the editor. The code sample demonstrates how to set up an editor with history, perform an operation, and then clear the history.

const { Editor } = require('slate');
const { withHistory } = require('slate-history');

const editor = withHistory(new Editor());

// Perform some operations
editor.insertText('Hello, world!');

// Clear the history
editor.history = { undos: [], redos: [] };

Other packages similar to slate-history

draft-js

Draft.js is a framework for building rich text editors in React. It provides built-in undo and redo functionality similar to slate-history, but it is more tightly integrated with React and offers a different API and set of features.

prosemirror-history

ProseMirror-history is a plugin for the ProseMirror editor that provides undo and redo functionality. It offers similar capabilities to slate-history but is designed to work with the ProseMirror framework, which has a different architecture and set of features compared to Slate.

quill

Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility. It includes built-in undo and redo functionality and offers a different set of features and API compared to slate-history, focusing more on ease of use and extensibility.

README

This package contains the core logic of Slate. Feel free to poke around to learn more!