eeavolto-slate
Watch a 5 minutes "elevator pitch" for volto-slate
An alternative text editor for Volto, capable of completely replacing the default richtext editor while offering enhanced functionality and behavior. We believe that, in order to succeed, Volto's richtext form editor (the Volto Composite Page editor) needs strong integration between the rich text capabilities and the rest of the Volto blocks. Some examples of the kind of strong integration we have in mind:
- Pasting complex documents inside a volto-slate text block will create multiple Volto blocks: images will be converted to Volto Image blocks, tables will be converted to Volto Table blocks, etc.
- The text block accepts drag&drop images and it will upload them as Volto Image blocks.
- volto-slate has a Table button with the familiar size input, but it create a Table block
While this addon is still in an early alpha stage, we've solved most of the big issues, the API starts to stabilize and we've already started several addons based on it: https://github.com/eea/volto-slate-metadata-mentions/ and https://github.com/eea/volto-slate-zotero
Why
Some of the main reasons that drove us to create volto-slate instead of enhancing Volto's draftjs implementation:
- Volto's draftjs implementation depends on draft-js-plugins, a third-party project that introduces its own set of bugs and maintanance issues
Slate has a modern, developer-friendly api that makes developing plugins something easy to do. Getting the editor in a plugin is as easy as
const editor = useSlate(), overriding core functionality is something that's built in as pluggable, directly in Slate.Volto's draft based implementation depends on Redraft for its final output, which comes with its own bugs and issues. While it is nice to have view-mode components, this is something that volto-slate implements just as well.
- Because Slate's internal storage uses a tree modeled on the DOM pattern, its final rendered output is very clean. Note: The Slate editor value is a JSON object, similar to the Draftjs based implementation.
Upgrades
Upgrade to 4.x.x
- Namespace the plugins #156:
- Make sure you upgrade your slate plugins to use the new slate namespaced plugin ids.
See for example
volto-slate-footnote#23
- Make sure you upgrade your slate plugins to use the new slate namespaced plugin ids.
See for example
asDefaultprofile makes the volto-slate as the default Editor forblocksandrichtext.- If you're not ready for this, yet, switch to
volto-slate:asDefaultBlock
- If you're not ready for this, yet, switch to
Upgrade to 3.x.x
- Removed all deprecated, already in Volto Core,
futurevoltocomponents:SidebarPopupObjectWidgetObjectBrowserWidgethelpers/Blocks
- Table
inline buttonandcopy&pastesupport is not installed by default anymore. You'll need to explicitly import thetableButtonprofile like:volto:asDefault,tableButtonvolto-slate:minimalDefault,simpleLink,tableButton
Available profiles.
volto-slate provides several optional configuration:
asDefault- makes the volto-slate as the default Editor forblocksandrichtextasDefaultBlock- makes volto-slate the default Editor forblocksasDefaultRichText- makes volto-slate the default Editor forrichtextwidgetminimalDefault, same as the above, but uses a set of toolbar buttons similar to VoltosimpleLinkreuses Volto's link plugin and makes for a better replacement of Volto's rich text editor.tableButtonadds table button to Slate toolbar in order to easily insert Table block after.
Features
1. Hovering (floating) toolbar that shows up on selection
2. Optional expanded (fixed) toolbar
3. Working with links (internal, external, email)
4. Removing links
5. Editing links
6. Block-quotes
7. Split paragraph block in two with Enter key and join them back with Backspace key
8. Breaking and joining list items
9. Breaking (with expanded selection) and joining list items
10. Inserting a new list item at the end
11. Two Enter key presses in the last empty list item creates a new list
12. Using Up and Down keys to go through the blocks in both directions
13. Changing indent level of list items using Tab and Shift-Tab keys
14. Splitting a list block with Enter into two list blocks
15. Support for markdown bulleted lists with *, - and +
16. Support for markdown numbered lists with 1. - 9.
17. Backspace with cursor on first position inside a list with just one item converts the list to a paragraph
18. Creating a new text block with Enter at the end of a text block and removing it with Backspace
19. Switching the list type (numbered list to/from bulleted list)
Getting started
Try volto-slate with Docker
Get the latest Docker images
docker pull plone docker pull plone/voltoStart Plone backend
docker run -d --name plone -p 8080:8080 -e SITE=Plone -e PROFILES="profile-plone.restapi:blocks" ploneStart Volto frontend
docker run -it --rm -p 3000:3000 --link plone -e ADDONS="volto-slate:asDefault" plone/voltoGo to http://localhost:3000
Login with admin:admin
Create a new Page and add a new Text block.
Add volto-slate to your Volto project
Make sure you have a Plone backend up-and-running at http://localhost:8080/Plone
Start Volto frontend
If you already have a Volto project, just update
package.json:"addons": [ "volto-slate:asDefault" ], "dependencies": { "volto-slate": "*" }If not, create one:
npm install -g yo @plone/generator-volto yo @plone/volto my-volto-project --addon volto-slate:asDefault cd my-volto-projectInstall new add-ons and restart Volto:
yarn install yarn startGo to http://localhost:3000
Happy editing!
Plugins
To write a new plugin, please refer plugins
Cypress
We aim to achieve a good coverage for cypress. Please refer to commands listed here to ease the process of writing new tests.
Release
Automatic release using Jenkins
- The automatic release is started by creating a Pull Request from
developtomaster. The pull request status checks correlated to the branch and PR Jenkins jobs need to be processed successfully. 1 review from a github user with rights is mandatory. - It runs on every commit on
masterbranch, which is protected from direct commits, only allowing pull request merge commits. - The automatic release is done by Jenkins. The status of the release job can be seen both in the Readme.md badges and the green check/red cross/yellow circle near the last commit information. If you click on the icon, you will have the list of checks that were run. The
continuous-integration/jenkins/branchlink goes to the Jenkins job execution webpage. - Automated release scripts are located in the
eeacms/gitflowdocker image, specifically js-release.sh script. It uses therelease-ittool. - As long as a PR request is open from develop to master, the PR Jenkins job will automatically re-create the CHANGELOG.md and package.json files to be production-ready.
- The version format must be MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH. By default, next release is set to next minor version (with patch 0).
- You can manually change the version in
package.json. The new version must not be already present in the tags/releases of the repository, otherwise it will be automatically increased by the script. Any changes to the version will trigger aCHANGELOG.mdre-generation. - Automated commits and commits with [JENKINS] or [YARN] in the commit log are excluded from
CHANGELOG.mdfile.
Manual release from the develop branch ( beta release )
Installation and configuration of release-it
You need to first install the release-it client.
npm install -g release-itRelease-it uses the configuration written in the .release-it.json file located in the root of the repository.
Release-it is a tool that automates 4 important steps in the release process:
- Version increase in
package.json( increased from the current version inpackage.json) CHANGELOG.mdautomatic generation from commit messages ( grouped by releases )- GitHub release on the commit with the changelog and package.json modification on the develop branch
- NPM release ( by default it's disabled, but can be enabled in the configuration file )
To configure the authentification, you need to export GITHUB_TOKEN for GitHub
export GITHUB_TOKEN=XXX-XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX To configure npm, you can use the npm login command or use a configuration file with a TOKEN :
echo "//registry.npmjs.org/:_authToken=YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY" > .npmrcUsing release-it tool
There are 3 yarn scripts that can be run to do the release
yarn release-beta
Automatically calculates and presents 3 beta versions - patch, minor and major for you to choose ( or Other for manual input).
? Select increment (next version):
❯ prepatch (0.1.1-beta.0)
preminor (0.2.0-beta.0)
premajor (1.0.0-beta.0)
Other, please specify...yarn release-major-beta
Same as yarn release-beta, but with premajor version pre-selected.
yarn release
Generic command, does not automatically add the beta to version, but you can still manually write it if you choose Other.
Important notes
Do not use release-it tool on master branch, the commit on CHANGELOG.md file and the version increase in the package.json file can't be done without a PULL REQUEST.
Do not keep Pull Requests from develop to master branches open when you are doing beta releases from the develop branch. As long as a PR to master is open, an automatic script will run on every commit and will update both the version and the changelog to a production-ready state - ( MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH mandatory format for version).
How to contribute
See DEVELOP.md.
Credit
A lot of inspiration from the great Slate Plugins repository, especially the autoformat handlers.
Copyright and license
The Initial Owner of the Original Code is European Environment Agency (EEA). All Rights Reserved.
See LICENSE.md for details.