@crashbytes/contentful-richtext-editor

A modern, Tiptap v3-based rich text editor that's fully compatible with Contentful's rich text format. Provides the same editing experience as Contentful's native editor while maintaining perfect compatibility with Contentful's document structure.

🔒 Security & Trust

• ✅ Zero Known Vulnerabilities - Automated security audits via Dependabot
• ✅ Supply Chain Security - Package published with npm provenance via Trusted Publishing
• ✅ CodeQL Analysis - Continuous security scanning for vulnerabilities
• ✅ React 18 & 19 Compatible - Automated compatibility testing
• ✅ Dependency Review - Automated PR checks for vulnerable dependencies

See our Security Policy for vulnerability reporting.

✨ Features

• ✅ Full Contentful Compatibility - Seamless conversion between Contentful and Tiptap formats
• ✅ Tiptap v3 - Built on the latest Tiptap v3 for better performance
• ✅ Modern UI - Clean, intuitive interface matching Contentful's design
• ✅ TypeScript Support - Complete type safety with Contentful's rich text types
• ✅ Extensible - Built on Tiptap v3 for easy customization
• ✅ Lightweight - Tree-shakeable, only import what you need
• ✅ Responsive - Works on desktop and mobile devices
• ✅ Optional Border Control - Customize editor appearance with showBorder prop

🚀 Installation

npm install @crashbytes/contentful-richtext-editor

Peer Dependencies:

• React 18.3.1+ or React 19.x
• React DOM 18.3.1+ or React 19.x

📖 Quick Start

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { ContentfulRichTextEditor } from '@crashbytes/contentful-richtext-editor';
import '@crashbytes/contentful-richtext-editor/dist/index.css';
import { Document } from '@contentful/rich-text-types';

function App() {
  const [content, setContent] = useState<Document>();

  const handleChange = (document: Document) => {
    setContent(document);
    console.log('Contentful document:', document);
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <h1>My Rich Text Editor</h1>
      <ContentfulRichTextEditor
        placeholder="Start writing your content..."
        onChange={handleChange}
        initialValue={content}
        showBorder={true} // Optional: control border visibility
      />
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

🎨 Border Control

Control the editor's border appearance with the showBorder prop:

// Default - with border (backward compatible)
<ContentfulRichTextEditor />

// Borderless editor for custom layouts
<ContentfulRichTextEditor 
  showBorder={false}
  className="my-custom-editor"
/>

// Themed borderless editor
<ContentfulRichTextEditor 
  showBorder={false}
  theme="minimal"
/>

Custom Styling with Borderless Mode

/* Custom styling for borderless editor */
.my-custom-editor {
  box-shadow: 0 2px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
  border-radius: 8px;
}

.my-custom-editor .contentful-toolbar {
  background: linear-gradient(45deg, #667eea, #764ba2);
}

🎯 Supported Features

• Text Formatting: Bold, italic, underline
• Headings: H1 through H6
• Lists: Ordered and unordered lists
• Links: Hyperlinks with URL validation
• Tables: Full table support with headers
• Quotes: Blockquotes
• Embedded Content: Callbacks for Contentful entries and assets
• Undo/Redo: Full history support

🔧 Advanced Usage

With Contentful Integration

import { ContentfulRichTextEditor } from '@crashbytes/contentful-richtext-editor';
import '@crashbytes/contentful-richtext-editor/dist/index.css';

function ContentfulEditor() {
  const handleEmbedEntry = async () => {
    // Your logic to select a Contentful entry
    const entry = await openEntrySelector();
    return entry;
  };

  const handleEmbedAsset = async () => {
    // Your logic to select a Contentful asset
    const asset = await openAssetSelector();
    return asset;
  };

  return (
    <ContentfulRichTextEditor
      placeholder="Write your travel tip..."
      onChange={(doc) => saveToContentful(doc)}
      onEmbedEntry={handleEmbedEntry}
      onEmbedAsset={handleEmbedAsset}
      theme="contentful"
      showBorder={true}
    />
  );
}

Customized Editor

<ContentfulRichTextEditor
  placeholder="Simple editor..."
  disabledFeatures={['table', 'embed', 'quote']}
  theme="minimal"
  readonly={false}
  showBorder={false}
  onChange={handleChange}
/>

📋 Props Reference

| Prop | Type | Default | Description | |------|------|---------|-------------| | showBorder | boolean | true | Control editor border visibility | | initialValue | Document | undefined | Initial Contentful rich text document | | onChange | (document: Document) => void | undefined | Callback when content changes | | onEmbedEntry | () => Promise<any> \| void | undefined | Callback for embedding Contentful entries | | onEmbedAsset | () => Promise<any> \| void | undefined | Callback for embedding Contentful assets | | onEmbedInlineEntry | () => Promise<any> \| void | undefined | Callback for embedding inline entries | | placeholder | string | 'Start writing...' | Placeholder text | | readonly | boolean | false | Whether editor is read-only | | className | string | '' | Additional CSS classes | | theme | 'default' \| 'minimal' \| 'contentful' | 'contentful' | Visual theme | | disabledFeatures | Array<string> | [] | Features to disable | | availableHeadings | Array<1 \| 2 \| 3 \| 4 \| 5 \| 6> | [1,2,3,4,5,6] | Available heading levels | | availableMarks | Array<'bold' \| 'italic' \| 'underline'> | ['bold','italic','underline'] | Available text formatting |

🚫 Disabling Features

You can disable specific features by passing them in the disabledFeatures array:

• 'bold' - Bold text formatting
• 'italic' - Italic text formatting
• 'underline' - Underline text formatting
• 'link' - Hyperlinks
• 'lists' - Ordered and unordered lists
• 'headings' - All heading levels
• 'quote' - Blockquotes
• 'table' - Tables
• 'embed' - Embedded content

🛠️ Utility Functions

import {
  contentfulToTiptap,
  tiptapToContentful,
  validateContentfulDocument,
  createEmptyDocument,
  extractPlainText,
  countWords,
  findEmbeddedContent
} from '@crashbytes/contentful-richtext-editor';

// Convert between formats
const tiptapJson = contentfulToTiptap(contentfulDocument);
const contentfulDoc = tiptapToContentful(tiptapJson);

// Validation and utilities
const isValid = validateContentfulDocument(someDocument);
const emptyDoc = createEmptyDocument();
const plainText = extractPlainText(document);
const wordCount = countWords(document);
const embedded = findEmbeddedContent(document);

🎨 Styling

The editor comes with default styles that match Contentful's design. Import the CSS:

import '@crashbytes/contentful-richtext-editor/dist/index.css';

Custom Styling

You can override the default styles by targeting the CSS classes:

.contentful-editor {
  border: 2px solid #your-color;
}

.contentful-toolbar {
  background: #your-background;
}

.contentful-editor-content {
  font-family: 'Your Font', sans-serif;
}

/* Borderless editor styling */
.contentful-editor--borderless {
  border: none;
  box-shadow: 0 2px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);
}

Themes

Contentful (default) Matches Contentful's native editor appearance.

Minimal
Clean, minimal design with reduced visual elements.

Default Standard rich text editor appearance with serif fonts.

🌐 Next.js Usage

// pages/editor.tsx or app/editor/page.tsx
import dynamic from 'next/dynamic';

const ContentfulEditor = dynamic(
  () => import('@crashbytes/contentful-richtext-editor').then(mod => mod.ContentfulRichTextEditor),
  { ssr: false }
);

export default function EditorPage() {
  return (
    <div>
      <ContentfulEditor
        placeholder="Write something amazing..."
        onChange={(doc) => console.log(doc)}
        showBorder={false}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

📝 TypeScript Support

This package is written in TypeScript and includes full type definitions. All Contentful rich text types are re-exported for convenience:

import type {
  Document,
  Block,
  Inline,
  Text,
  ContentfulRichTextEditorProps
} from '@crashbytes/contentful-richtext-editor';

🌐 Browser Support

• Chrome 80+
• Firefox 78+
• Safari 13+
• Edge 80+

🔄 Migration

From v2.x to v3.0.0

Good News: The public API is unchanged! Upgrade with no code changes:

npm install @crashbytes/contentful-richtext-editor@latest

Your existing code continues to work:

// This still works exactly the same
<ContentfulRichTextEditor
  placeholder="Start writing..."
  onChange={handleChange}
  initialValue={content}
/>

What Changed: Internal upgrade to Tiptap v3 provides:

• Better performance
• Improved mobile support
• Enhanced transaction handling
• More efficient rendering

See CHANGELOG.md for complete details.

From v2.0.3 to v2.0.4+

No breaking changes! Simply update and optionally use the new showBorder prop.

🔒 Security

We take security seriously. This package:

• ✅ Automated Security Audits - Weekly npm audit via GitHub Actions
• ✅ Dependabot - Automated dependency updates for security patches
• ✅ CodeQL Analysis - Advanced security vulnerability scanning
• ✅ Dependency Review - Automated checks on every PR
• ✅ Trusted Publishing - Package published with cryptographic provenance
• ✅ Supply Chain Verification - npm provenance proves package source

Found a vulnerability? Please report it via our Security Policy.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

All PRs automatically run:

• Security audits
• Dependency vulnerability checks
• React 18 & 19 compatibility tests
• Full test suite (175 tests)

📄 License

MIT © CrashBytes

🔗 Related Packages

• @contentful/rich-text-react-renderer - For rendering Contentful rich text
• @contentful/rich-text-types - Contentful rich text type definitions
• @tiptap/react - The underlying editor framework (v3)

📈 Version History

• v3.0.0 - Upgraded to Tiptap v3.15.3, added security enhancements
• v2.0.6 - Dependency updates, bug fixes
• v2.0.4 - Added optional border control with showBorder prop
• v2.0.3 - Package made publicly accessible
• v2.0.0 - Major feature update with automatic configuration
• v1.x - Initial releases

Made with ❤️ for the Contentful community