@trevixal/web-component

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Features

• <trevixal-editor>, a custom element with no framework at all
• A CDN build: one stylesheet, one script, no build step
• Server-rendered children survive upgrade, so SSR content is not lost
• 1.1 kB minified and gzipped, with TypeScript types in the package

The Trevixal editor as <trevixal-editor>, including a build that runs from a single <script> tag with no bundler.

npm install @trevixal/web-component
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No build tools

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://unpkg.com/@trevixal/ui/styles.css" />
<script src="https://unpkg.com/@trevixal/web-component"></script>

<div class="trevixal">
  <trevixal-editor placeholder="Start typing…">
    <h2>Hello</h2>
    <p>This initial content is parsed <em>and sanitized</em>.</p>
  </trevixal-editor>
</div>

<script>
  const element = document.querySelector('trevixal-editor')
  element.addEventListener('trevixal-change', (event) => {
    console.log(event.detail.json) // canonical document JSON
    console.log(event.detail.html) // serialized HTML
  })
</script>
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The CDN entry defines the element on load and puts the pieces a no-build page needs on window.Trevixal.

With a bundler

import { defineTrevixalEditor } from '@trevixal/web-component'

defineTrevixalEditor() // or defineTrevixalEditor('my-editor')
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The element

editor is the full engine, so anything in @trevixal/core is reachable from a page with no build step at all.

Your own nodes, and your own elements inside them

Both are properties rather than attributes, because neither is a string. Set them before the element is connected where you can.

import { Schema, defaultNodes, defaultMarks } from '@trevixal/core'
import { tableNodes } from '@trevixal/extension-table'

const editor = document.querySelector('trevixal-editor')

editor.schema = new Schema({
  nodes: { ...defaultNodes(), ...tableNodes() },
  marks: defaultMarks(),
})

editor.nodeViews = {
  counter: (node) => {
    const dom = document.createElement('counter-block')
    dom.contentEditable = 'false' // the component owns what is inside it
    dom.count = node.attrs.count
    return { dom, update: (next) => ((dom.count = next.attrs.count), true) }
  },
}
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A web component's idea of a component is another custom element, so a node view here creates one. Give it no state of its own: read the count from node, write it back with a transaction, and undo rewinds your element with the document.

Assigning schema to a live editor rebuilds it, carrying the document across as HTML. Anything the new schema cannot parse is dropped, which is the honest outcome when the rules a document was written under have changed.

Server rendering

HTMLElement does not exist in Node, and a class body is evaluated at import time, so the class extends a stand-in when there is no DOM. The module imports cleanly on a server; the element registers only where a real DOM exists.

License

Apache-2.0