sea-markdown-editor

SeaMarkdown editor is a WYSIWYG Markdown editor based on slate.js. It is used in Seafile and SeaTable project.

Markdown editor UI

Integrated markdown editor UI

An integrated demo. You can customize it according to the style you design.

Simple editor UI

Integrated simple editor UI

An integrated demo. You can customize it according to the style you design.

Installation

To install via npm:

npm install @seafile/seafile-editor --save

Import the library into your project:

import { MarkdownEditor } from '@seafile/seafile-editor';

Provide components and functions

Components

Functions

MarkdownEditor usage

Define api

import axios from 'axios';

class API {

  getFileContent() {
    const fileUrl = '';
    return axios.get(fileUrl);
  }

  saveFileContent(content) {
    const updateLink = '';
    const formData = new FormData();
    const blob = new Blob([data], { type: 'text/plain' });
    formData.append('file', blob);
    axios.post(updateLink, formData);
  }

  uploadLocalImage(file) {
    const uploadLink = '';
    const formData = new FormData();
    formData.append('file', file);
    return axios.post(uploadLink, formData);
  }

}

const editorApi = new API();

export default editorApi;

Integrate simple into your own page

import React, { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
import { Button } from 'reactstrap';
import { MarkdownEditor } from '@seafile/seafile-editor';
import editorApi from './api';

export default function MarkdownEditorDemo() {

  const editorRef = useRef(null);
  const [fileContent, setFileContent] = useState('');
  const [isFetching, setIsFetching] = useState(true);
  const [contentVersion, setContentVersion] = useState(0);

  const mathJaxSource = '';

  useEffect(() => {
    editorApi.getFileContent().then(res => {
      setFileContent(res.data);
      setIsFetching(false);
    });
  }, []);

  const onSave = useCallback(() => {
    const content = editorRef.current.getValue();
     editorApi.saveFileContent(content).then(res => {
      window.alert('Saved successfully')
    });
  }, []);

  const onContentChanged = useCallback(() => {
    setContentVersion(contentVersion + 1);
  }, [contentVersion]);

  return (
    <div className='seafile-editor'>
      <MarkdownEditor
        ref={editorRef}
        isFetching={isFetching}
        value={fileContent}
        initValue={''}
        editorApi={editorApi}
        onSave={onSave}
        onContentChanged={onContentChanged}
        mathJaxSource={mathJaxSource}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

Props

Common props you may want to specify include:

• ref: A reference to the editor, used to obtain the current content in the editor
  • ref.current.getValue: Get the current markdown string value in the editor
  • ref.current.getSlateValue: Get the value of the current slate data format in the editor
• isFetching: Whether the value of the editor is being obtained, if the loading effect is displayed while obtaining, and if the acquisition is completed, the corresponding content obtained is displayed in the editor.
• value: The text content obtained
• initValue: If value does not exist, a default value can be provided via initValue
• onSave: When the editor content changes, the onSave callback event is triggered externally. The user can save the document by implementing this callback function.
• onContentChanged: When the editor content changes, a change event is triggered to facilitate the user to record whether the document
• mathJaxSource: Supports inserting formulas. If you want to support inserting formulas, please provide a path that can load formula resources. If support is not required, you can ignore this parameter. math-jax document

SimpleEditor usage

Define api

import axios from 'axios';

class API {

  getFileContent() {
    const fileUrl = '';
    return axios.get(fileUrl);
  }

  saveFileContent(content) {
    const updateLink = '';
    const formData = new FormData();
    const blob = new Blob([data], { type: 'text/plain' });
    formData.append('file', blob);
    axios.post(updateLink, formData);
  }

  uploadLocalImage(file) {
    const uploadLink = '';
    const formData = new FormData();
    formData.append('file', file);
    return axios.post(uploadLink, formData);
  }

}

const editorApi = new API();

export default editorApi;

Integrate simple into your own page

import React, { useCallback, useEffect, useRef, useState } from 'react';
import { Button } from 'reactstrap';
import { SimpleEditor } from '@seafile/seafile-editor';
import editorApi from './api';

export default function SimpleEditorDemo() {

  const editorRef = useRef(null);
  const [fileContent, setFileContent] = useState('');
  const [isFetching, setIsFetching] = useState(true);
  const [contentVersion, setContentVersion] = useState(0);

  const mathJaxSource = '';

  useEffect(() => {
    editorApi.getFileContent().then(res => {
      setFileContent(res.data);
      setIsFetching(false);
    });
  }, []);

  const onSave = useCallback(() => {
    const content = editorRef.current.getValue();
     editorApi.saveFileContent(content).then(res => {
      window.alert('Saved successfully')
    });
  }, []);

  const onContentChanged = useCallback(() => {
    setContentVersion(contentVersion + 1);
  }, [contentVersion]);

  return (
    <div className='seafile-editor'>
      <SimpleEditor
        ref={editorRef}
        isFetching={isFetching}
        value={fileContent}
        initValue={''}
        editorApi={editorApi}
        onSave={onSave}
        onContentChanged={onContentChanged}
        mathJaxSource={mathJaxSource}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

Props

Common props you may want to specify include:

• ref: A reference to the editor, used to obtain the current content in the editor
  • ref.current.getValue: Get the current markdown string value in the editor
  • ref.current.getSlateValue: Get the value of the current slate data format in the editor
• isFetching: Whether the value of the editor is being obtained, if the loading effect is displayed while obtaining, and if the acquisition is completed, the corresponding content obtained is displayed in the editor.
• value: The text content obtained
• onSave: When the editor content changes, the onSave callback event is triggered externally. The user can save the document by implementing this callback function.
• onContentChanged: When the editor content changes, a change event is triggered to facilitate the user to record whether the document
• mathJaxSource: Supports inserting formulas. If you want to support inserting formulas, please provide a path that can load formula resources. If support is not required, you can ignore this parameter. math-jax document

Functions

mdStringToSlate(mdString)

Convert markdown string to data structure supported by editor (slate)

Params

• mdString: markdown string

Returns

  Slate nodes

slateToMdString(slateNodes)

Convert editor (slate) supported data structures to markdown string

Params

• slateNodes: slate nodes

Returns

  Markdown string

processor processor.process(mdString)

Convert markdown string to html

Params

• mdString: markdown string

Returns

 Promise

Demo

const string = '# Hello, I am first level title'
processor.process(string).then(result => {
  const html = String(result);
  ...
})

🖥 Environment Support

• Modern browsers

Modern browsers

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