Node views with React
Using Vanilla JavaScript can feel complex if you are used to work in React. Good news: You can use regular React components in your node views, too. There is just a little bit you need to know, but let’s go through this one by one.
Render a React component
Here is what you need to do to render React components inside your editor:
- Create a node extension
- Create a React component
- Pass that component to the provided
ReactNodeViewRenderer
- Register it with
addNodeView()
- Configure Tiptap to use your new node extension
This is how your node extension could look like:
import { Node } from '@tiptap/core'
import { ReactNodeViewRenderer } from '@tiptap/react'
import Component from './Component.jsx'
export default Node.create({
// configuration …
addNodeView() {
return ReactNodeViewRenderer(Component)
},
})
There is a little bit of magic required to make this work. But don’t worry, we provide a wrapper component you can use to get started easily. Don’t forget to add it to your custom React component, like shown below:
<NodeViewWrapper className="react-component"> React Component </NodeViewWrapper>
Got it? Let’s see it in action. Feel free to copy the below example to get started.
That component doesn’t interact with the editor, though. Time to wire it up.
Access node attributes
The ReactNodeViewRenderer
which you use in your node extension, passes a few very helpful props to your custom React component. One of them is the node
prop. Let’s say you have added an attribute named count
to your node extension (like we did in the above example) you could access it like this:
props.node.attrs.count
Update node attributes
You can even update node attributes from your node, with the help of the updateAttributes
prop passed to your component. Pass an object with updated attributes to the updateAttributes
prop:
export default (props) => {
const increase = () => {
props.updateAttributes({
count: props.node.attrs.count + 1,
})
}
// …
}
And yes, all of that is reactive, too. A pretty seamless communication, isn’t it?
Adding a content editable
There is another component called NodeViewContent
which helps you adding editable content to your node view. Here is an example:
import React from 'react'
import { NodeViewWrapper, NodeViewContent } from '@tiptap/react'
export default () => {
return (
<NodeViewWrapper className="react-component">
<span className="label" contentEditable={false}>
React Component
</span>
<NodeViewContent className="content" />
</NodeViewWrapper>
)
}
You don’t need to add those className
attributes, feel free to remove them or pass other class names. Try it out in the following example:
Keep in mind that this content is rendered by Tiptap. That means you need to tell what kind of content is allowed, for example with content: 'inline*'
in your node extension (that’s what we use in the above example).
The NodeViewWrapper
and NodeViewContent
components render a <div>
HTML tag (<span>
for inline nodes), but you can change that. For example <NodeViewContent as="p">
should render a paragraph. One limitation though: That tag must not change during runtime.
Changing the default content tag for a node view
By default a node view rendered by ReactNodeViewRenderer
will always have a wrapping div
inside. If you want to change the type of this node, you can the contentDOMElementTag
to the ReactNodeViewRenderer
options:
// this will turn the div into a header tag
return ReactNodeViewRenderer(Component, { contentDOMElementTag: 'header' })
Changing the wrapping DOM element
To change the wrapping DOM elements tag, you can use the contentDOMElementTag
option on the ReactNodeViewRenderer
function to change the default tag name.
import { Node } from '@tiptap/core'
import { ReactNodeViewRenderer } from '@tiptap/react'
import Component from './Component.jsx'
export default Node.create({
// configuration …
addNodeView() {
return ReactNodeViewRenderer(Component, { contentDOMElementTag: 'main' })
},
})
All available props
Here is the full list of what props you can expect:
Prop | Description |
---|---|
editor | The editor instance |
node | The current node |
decorations | An array of decorations |
selected | true when there is a NodeSelection at the current node view |
extension | Access to the node extension, for example to get options |
getPos() | Get the document position of the current node |
updateAttributes() | Update attributes of the current node |
deleteNode() | Delete the current node |
Dragging
To make your node views draggable, set draggable: true
in the extension and add data-drag-handle
to the DOM element that should function as the drag handle.