Payload CMS lexical editor extend

🚀 Overview

Ideal for content creators and developers who want to enrich their text content with more visual appeal.

This plugin adds new features to the Payload CMS lexical editor. You can use any of the features on its own or all of them togehter:

• Text Color – Customize the color of selected text.
• Text Highlight – Highlight text with a background color.
• Block Background Color – Apply background colors to entire blocks of content.
• Embed videos - Add embedded youtube or vimeo videos to the content of the editor

New features will be added - Create issues for new features or create them yourself and create a PR to share it with the community

📸 Screenshots

Text Color Feature

Text Highlight Feature

Block Background Feature

Embed Video Feature

📦 Installation

npm install payloadcms-lexical-ext

or

yarn add payloadcms-lexical-ext

🛠️ Usage

1. Import the features you want to use:

import { BgColorFeature, HighlightColorFeature, TextColorFeature, YoutubeFeature, VimeoFeature } from 'payloadcms-lexical-ext';

2. If you're using any of the color features, import required css

import 'payloadcms-lexical-ext/client/client.css'

3. Add features to your lexical editor configuration:

lexicalEditor({
	features: [
		...defaultEditorFeatures,
		...YourFeatures...
		TextColorFeature(),
		HighlightColorFeature(),
		BgColorFeature(),
		YoutubeFeature(),
		VimeoFeature()
	]
});

4. Add JSX or HTML converters

   4.1 JSX Converters

   components/RichText/index.tsx

   import { JSXConverters } from 'payloadcms-lexical-ext'
   
   const jsxConverters: JSXConvertersFunction<NodeTypes> = ({ defaultConverters }) => ({
   	...defaultConverters,
   	...JSXConverters
   })

   4.2 HTML Converters

   import { consolidateHTMLConverters, convertLexicalToHTML, sanitizeServerEditorConfig } from '@payloadcms/richtext-lexical'
   import { HTMLConverters } from 'payloadcms-lexical-ext'
   
   ...
   
   const sanitizedEditorConfig = await sanitizeServerEditorConfig(editorConfig, req.payload.config)
   
   await convertLexicalToHTML({
   	converters: [
   		...HTMLConverters,
   		...consolidateHTMLConverters({ editorConfig: sanitizedEditorConfig })
   	],
   	data: jsonEditorContent,
   	req,
   })

⚙️ Configuration Options

The plugin comes with several customizable options:

TextColorFeature({
	colors: [{
		type: 'button',
		label: 'Custom color',
		color: '#1155aa'
	}]
});

🧑‍💻 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! To get started:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch for your feature.
3. Submit a pull request.

📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

📬 Contact

For questions or suggestions, feel free to open an issue or reach out to the Payload CMS community.