slate

What is slate?

Slate is a completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. It provides a set of tools and components to create complex text editing experiences with ease.

What are slate's main functionalities?

Creating a Basic Editor

This code initializes a basic Slate editor instance. The `Editor` class is the core of Slate, and it provides the foundational methods and properties needed to build a rich text editor.

const { Editor } = require('slate');
const editor = new Editor();
console.log(editor);

Handling User Input

This code demonstrates how to handle user input by inserting text into the editor. The `Transforms` module provides various methods to manipulate the editor's content.

const { Editor, Transforms } = require('slate');
const editor = new Editor();
Transforms.insertText(editor, 'Hello, Slate!');
console.log(editor.children);

Custom Elements and Marks

This code shows how to define custom elements and marks. In this example, a custom text node with a bold mark is created and added to the editor's content.

const { Editor, Text } = require('slate');
const editor = new Editor();
const customText = { text: 'Custom Text', bold: true };
editor.children = [{ type: 'paragraph', children: [customText] }];
console.log(editor.children);

Plugins

This code demonstrates how to extend the editor's functionality using plugins. The `withCustomPlugin` function wraps the editor and overrides the `insertText` method to add custom behavior.

const { Editor } = require('slate');
const withCustomPlugin = editor => {
  const { insertText } = editor;
  editor.insertText = text => {
    console.log('Inserting text:', text);
    insertText(text);
  };
  return editor;
};
const editor = withCustomPlugin(new Editor());
editor.insertText('Hello, Plugins!');

Other packages similar to slate

draft-js

Draft.js is a framework for building rich text editors in React. It provides a set of immutable models and React components to create complex text editing experiences. Compared to Slate, Draft.js is more opinionated and less flexible but offers a more straightforward API for common use cases.

prosemirror

ProseMirror is a toolkit for building rich text editors with a focus on extensibility and performance. It provides a highly customizable and modular architecture, similar to Slate, but with a steeper learning curve. ProseMirror is known for its fine-grained control over document structure and editing behavior.

quill

Quill is a modern WYSIWYG editor built for compatibility and extensibility. It offers a simple API and a rich set of features out of the box, making it easy to get started. Compared to Slate, Quill is less customizable but provides a more polished and user-friendly experience for basic text editing needs.

README

This package contains the core logic of Slate. It's separated further into a series of directories:

• Changes — containing the changes that are used to alter a Slate document.
• Constants — containing constants that are used in Slate's codebase.
• Models — containing the models that define Slate's data structure.
• Operations — containing the low-level operations that create Slate changes.
• Schemas - containing the core schema that ships with Slate by default.
• Utils — containing a few private convenience modules.

Feel free to poke around in each of them to learn more!