@particle-academy/fancy-cms-ui

⚠️ Early-release BETA. This package is young and moving fast — expect rough edges, gaps, and breaking changes between 0.x releases. If you hit anything odd (bugs, missing pieces, confusing docs), please report it at github.com/Particle-Academy/fancy-cms-ui/issues — every discovery helps.

The editor + isomorphic renderer for fancy-cms — an extendable inline-WYSIWYG website + app-shell builder for Laravel, built on the Fancy UI suite.

Status: Phase 0 done; Phase 1 in progress. Ships the foundation the rest of the system types against — the Stages document model, the PageOp op-spine + pure reduce, and the JS style→CSS emitter (one half of the dual-emitter pair; the other lives in the PHP particle-academy/fancy-cms) — the React renderer (./react: CmsPage / CmsRegion) shared by the editor and published islands, and the WYSIWYG editor (./editor: layers · canvas with select + drag-move · inspector · snapshot undo/redo). Motion engine, addon SDK, file manager, and the opt-in /collab + /agent layers land in later phases.

Architecture & plan: .ai/plans/fancy-cms.md in the fancy.agi envelope.

Use

npm install @particle-academy/fancy-cms-ui

Everything ships from the main entry — the renderer (CmsPage / CmsRegion), the WYSIWYG Editor, and the framework-agnostic spine (document model, ops, reduce, emitDocCss):

import { useState } from "react";
import { CmsPage, Editor, emptyDoc, reduce, type PageDoc } from "@particle-academy/fancy-cms-ui";

// A tiny Stages document — every mutation is a PageOp through the pure reduce.
let initial = emptyDoc("home");
initial = reduce(initial, {
  t: "insert_node",
  node: { id: "s1", type: "section", parent: null, order: "a", layout: "stack",
          props: {}, style: { base: { padding: { value: 32, unit: "px" } } } },
});
initial = reduce(initial, {
  t: "insert_node",
  node: { id: "h1", type: "heading", parent: "s1", order: "a",
          props: { content: "Hello" }, style: { base: { fontSize: { value: 32, unit: "px" } } } },
});
initial = reduce(initial, {
  t: "insert_node",
  node: { id: "p1", type: "text", parent: "s1", order: "b",
          props: { content: "Built with fancy-cms." }, style: { base: {} } },
});

// Author: the full editor (layers · canvas · inspector, snapshot undo/redo).
function Author() {
  const [doc, setDoc] = useState(initial);
  return <Editor defaultValue={doc} onChange={setDoc} />;
}

// Publish: render the document (or one subtree via <CmsRegion doc={doc} root="s1" />).
function Page({ doc }: { doc: PageDoc }) {
  return <CmsPage doc={doc} />;
}

Lean subpath entries also exist: @particle-academy/fancy-cms-ui/react (renderer only) and @particle-academy/fancy-cms-ui/editor (the editor, plus the inline EditablePage — the one component that additionally requires the optional @particle-academy/react-fancy peer).

Styling

There is no stylesheet to import. Authored page styles are compiled by the deterministic CSS emitter and injected as an inline <style data-cms-styles> tag by CmsPage / CmsRegion (set includeStyles={false} when the host emits CSS itself, e.g. via the PHP renderer). Editor chrome is self-contained inline styles. EditablePage's context menu comes from @particle-academy/react-fancy, whose Tailwind classes your app's Tailwind build compiles as usual.

What's here (Phase 0)

src/
├── document/
│   ├── types.ts      Stages model: PageDoc, Node, Constraints, StyleProps, …
│   ├── ops.ts        PageOp union + envelope
│   ├── reduce.ts     pure/total reduce(doc, op) + invert(doc, op) for undo
│   └── fractional.ts collab-safe ordering keys (keyBetween)
├── render/
│   └── css.ts        deterministic style/layout/constraints → CSS (static subset)
├── react/            the React renderer (the ./react entry)
│   ├── registry.tsx  element registry (text/image/section/stack/grid/…)
│   ├── RenderNode.tsx recursive node → DOM with data-cms handles + islands
│   └── CmsPage / CmsRegion  full page + embeddable subtree
└── editor/           the WYSIWYG editor (the ./editor entry)
    ├── state.ts      pure editor reducer (ops + snapshot undo/redo + selection)
    ├── useEditor.ts  the editor hook
    └── Editor / Canvas / LayersPanel / Inspector

The reduce function is pure and total (an invalid op is a logged no-op), which is what makes undo, revisions, collaboration, and agent edits all flow through one spine. The CSS emitter is deterministic so the PHP emitter can produce byte-identical output — verified by the parity harness.

Principles

• Guest, not host — adopted per-surface (route / region / slot).
• Human+ is opt-in — core works single-user with no websockets or agents.
• Zero third-party runtime deps.

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