Visual Editor

Documentation

Getting started

The editor uses custom element, you first have to register your page before registering the element. Then you can use it anywhere you want in your HTML document.

Registering your page components

Start by instantiating the editor.

import { VisualEditor } from '@boxraiser/visual-editor'
import '@boxraiser/visual-editor/style.css'

let editor = new VisualEditor()

Then register your page components using the registerComponent method that expect 2 parameters

• A unique identifier for the block (string)
• An option object object (see EditorComponentDefinition for more information)

import { HTMLText, Repeater, Text, Row, Select } from '@boxraiser/visual-editor'

// Register a component / block
editor.registerComponent('hero', {
  title: 'Hero',
  category: 'Banner',
  fields: [
    new Text('title', {multiline: false}),
    new HTMLText('content'),
    new Repeater('buttons', {
      title: 'Boutons',
      addLabel: 'Add a new button',
      fields: [
        new Row([
          new Text('label', { label: 'Libellé', default: 'Call to action' }),
          new Text('url', { label: 'Lien' }),
          new Select('type', {
            default: 'primary',
            label: 'type',
            options: [
              { label: 'Primaire', value: 'primary' },
              { label: 'Secondaire', value: 'secondary' },
            ],
          }),
        ])
      ],
    })
  ],
})

When all your components are registered you can define the custom element using the defineElement method.

editor.defineElement()

Add the editor on your page

You now have a custom element visual-editor that you can use to display the editor.

<visual-editor
  hidden
  name="content"
  preview="http://localhost:3000/preview"
  iconsUrl="/assets/editor/[name].svg"
  value="[]"
  insertPosition="start"
></visual-editor>

There are multiple attributes :

• hidden, toggle this attribute to show or hide the editor
• name, name for the field (will be passed to an hidden textarea)
• preview, endpoint called to render the preview
• iconsUrl, path used to resolve component icons URL ([name] will be replaced by the ID of the component)
• value (optional), will set the default value for the editor (expect a JSON array)
• insertPosition (optional), determine at which position the new block will be added (start or end)

The custom element will create a hidden field that will be used to store the data, no need for additional JavaScript you will receive the data when the form is submitted.

How the data is formatted ?

The data use a simple structure (to be usable with any framework or technology)

 [
  {
    "_name": "hero",
    "<fieldname>": "<value>",
    "<fieldname>": "<value>",
    "<fieldname>": "<value>"
  },
  {
    "_name": "hero",
    "<fieldname>": "<value>",
    "<fieldname>": "<value>",
    "<fieldname>": "<value>"
  }
]

A real world example

[
  {
    "title": "Album example",
    "titleAlign": "center",
    "content": "<p>Something short and leading about the collection below—its contents, the creator, etc. Make it short and sweet, but not too short so folks don't simply skip over it entirely.</p>",
    "buttons": [
      {
        "label": "Main call to action",
        "url": "#",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "label": "Secondary action",
        "url": "#",
        "type": "secondary"
      }
    ],
    "backgroundSize": "cover",
    "backgroundRepeat": "no-repeat",
    "backgroundXPosition": "center",
    "backgroundYPosition": "center",
    "padding": 5,
    "_name": "hero",
    "backgroundColor": null,
    "textColor": "--bs-primary",
    "background": "",
    "backgroundMobile": ""
  },
  {
    "icons": [
      {
        "title": "Pro",
        "content": "<p>Minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>"
      },
      {
        "title": "Pro",
        "content": "<p>Minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>"
      },
      {
        "title": "Pro",
        "content": "<p>Minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>"
      }
    ],
    "backgroundSize": "cover",
    "backgroundRepeat": "no-repeat",
    "backgroundXPosition": "center",
    "backgroundYPosition": "center",
    "padding": 5,
    "_name": "icons-columns"
  },
  {
    "title": "Pricing",
    "titleAlign": "center",
    "content": "<p>Quickly build an effective pricing table for your potential customers with this Bootstrap example. It’s built with default Bootstrap components and utilities with little customization.</p>",
    "prices": [
      {
        "title": "Free",
        "price": "0€",
        "features": "10 users included\n2 GB of storage\nEmail support\nHelp center access",
        "label": "Sign up for free",
        "url": "#",
        "type": "secondary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Pro",
        "price": "15€",
        "features": "20 users included\n10 GB of storage\nPriority email support\nHelp center access",
        "label": "Get started",
        "url": "#",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "title": "Enterprise",
        "price": "29€",
        "features": "30 users included\n15 GB of storage\nPhone and email support\nHelp center access",
        "label": "Contact us",
        "url": "#",
        "type": "primary"
      }
    ],
    "backgroundSize": "cover",
    "backgroundRepeat": "no-repeat",
    "backgroundXPosition": "center",
    "backgroundYPosition": "center",
    "padding": 5,
    "_name": "pricing"
  },
  {
    "title": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet",
    "titleAlign": "right",
    "content": "<p>Minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.</p>",
    "buttons": [
      {
        "label": "Call to action",
        "url": "",
        "type": "primary"
      },
      {
        "label": "Call to action",
        "url": "",
        "type": "secondary"
      }
    ],
    "backgroundSize": "cover",
    "backgroundRepeat": "no-repeat",
    "backgroundXPosition": "center",
    "backgroundYPosition": "center",
    "padding": 3,
    "_name": "hero",
    "backgroundColor": null
  }
]