Lexxy

A modern rich text editor for Rails.

[!IMPORTANT] This is an early beta. It hasn't been battle-tested yet. Please try it out and report any issues you find.

Features

• Built on top of Lexical, the powerful text editor framework from Meta.
• Good HTML semantics. Paragraphs are real <p> tags, as they should be.
• Markdown support: shortcuts, auto-formatting on paste.
• Real-time code syntax highlighting.
• Create links by pasting URLs on selected text.
• Configurable prompts. Support for mentions and other interactive prompts with multiple loading and filtering strategies.
• Preview attachments like PDFs and Videos in the editor.
• Works seamlessly with Action Text, generating the same canonical HTML format it expects for attachments.

Documentation

Visit the documentation site.

Roadmap

This is an early beta. Here's what's coming next:

• [x] Configurable editors in Action Text: Choose your editor like you choose your database.
• [x] More editing features:
  • [x] Tables
  • [x] Text highlighting
• [x] Configuration hooks.
• [x] Standalone JS package: to use in non-Rails environments.
• [ ] Image galleries: The only remaining feature for full Action Text compatibility
• [ ] Install task that generates the necessary JS and adds stylesheets.

Contributing

• Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub Issues. Help is especially welcome with those tagged as "Help Wanted".
• For questions and general Lexxy discussion, please use the Discussions section

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.