Vue 2

This guide details how to integrate Tiptap with your Vue 2 project. Alternatively, check out our Vue text editor example.

Requirements

Node installed on your machine
Vue CLI installed on your machine
Experience with Vue

Create a project (optional)

If you already have a Vue project, that's fine too. Just skip this step.

For the purpose of this guide, start with a fresh Vue project called my-tiptap-project. The Vue CLI sets up everything we need, just select the default Vue 2 template.

# create a project
vue create my-tiptap-project

# change directory
cd my-tiptap-project

Install the dependencies

Okay, enough of the boring boilerplate work. Let's finally install Tiptap! For the following example you'll need the @tiptap/vue-2 package, @tiptap/pm (the ProseMirror library) and @tiptap/starter-kit, which includes the most common extensions to get started quickly.

npm install @tiptap/vue-2 @tiptap/pm @tiptap/starter-kit

If you followed step 1 and 2, you can now start your project with npm run dev, and open http://localhost:8080 in your favorite browser. This might be different, if you're working with an existing project.

Integrate Tiptap

To actually start using Tiptap, you'll need to add a new component to your app. Let's call it Tiptap and put the following example code in components/Tiptap.vue.

This is the fastest way to get Tiptap up and running with Vue. It will give you a very basic version of Tiptap, without any buttons. No worries, you will be able to add more functionality soon.

<template>
  <editor-content :editor="editor" />
</template>

<script>
  import { Editor, EditorContent } from '@tiptap/vue-2'
  import StarterKit from '@tiptap/starter-kit'

  export default {
    components: {
      EditorContent,
    },

    data() {
      return {
        editor: null,
      }
    },

    mounted() {
      this.editor = new Editor({
        content: "<p>I'm running Tiptap with Vue.js. 🎉</p>",
        extensions: [StarterKit],
      })
    },

    beforeDestroy() {
      this.editor.destroy()
    },
  }
</script>

Add it to your app

Now, let's replace the content of src/App.vue with the following example code to use our new Tiptap component in our app.

<template>
  <div id="app">
    <tiptap />
  </div>
</template>

<script>
  import Tiptap from './components/Tiptap.vue'

  export default {
    name: 'App',
    components: {
      Tiptap,
    },
  }
</script>

You should now see Tiptap in your browser. Time to give yourself a pat on the back! :)

Use v-model (optional)

You're probably used to bind your data with v-model in forms, that's also possible with Tiptap. Here is a working example component, that you can integrate in your project:

<template>
  <editor-content :editor="editor" />
</template>

<script>
  import { Editor, EditorContent } from '@tiptap/vue-2'
  import StarterKit from '@tiptap/starter-kit'

  export default {
    components: {
      EditorContent,
    },

    props: {
      value: {
        type: String,
        default: '',
      },
    },

    data() {
      return {
        editor: null,
      }
    },

    watch: {
      value(value) {
        // HTML
        const isSame = this.editor.getHTML() === value

        // JSON
        // const isSame = JSON.stringify(this.editor.getJSON()) === JSON.stringify(value)

        if (isSame) {
          return
        }

        this.editor.commands.setContent(value, false)
      },
    },

    mounted() {
      this.editor = new Editor({
        content: this.value,
        extensions: [StarterKit],
        onUpdate: () => {
          // HTML
          this.$emit('input', this.editor.getHTML())

          // JSON
          // this.$emit('input', this.editor.getJSON())
        },
      })
    },

    beforeDestroy() {
      this.editor.destroy()
    },
  }
</script>

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