Bundling TinyMCE in React

This guide shows how to bundle TinyMCE in a React application with the TinyMCE React component.

Prerequisites

This procedure requires Node.js (and NPM).

Procedure

  1. Use Vite and React SWC to create a new React project named tinymce-react-demo.

    # NPM 7+, extra double-dash is needed
npm create vite@5 tinymce-react-demo -- --template react-swc

  2. Go to the project directory and install @tinymce/tinymce-react

    cd tinymce-react-demo && npm install @tinymce/tinymce-react

  3. Install the tinymce package.

    npm install tinymce

  4. Add BundledEditor.jsx and import Editor and tinymce components as below.

    import { Editor } from '@tinymce/tinymce-react';
// Ensure to import tinymce first as other components expect
// a global variable `tinymce` to exist
import 'tinymce/tinymce';
// DOM model
import 'tinymce/models/dom/model'
// Theme
import 'tinymce/themes/silver';
// Toolbar icons
import 'tinymce/icons/default';
// Editor styles
import 'tinymce/skins/ui/oxide/skin';
// Content styles, including inline UI like fake cursors
import 'tinymce/skins/content/default/content';
import 'tinymce/skins/ui/oxide/content';

// Import plugins
import 'tinymce/plugins/anchor';
import 'tinymce/plugins/advlist';
import 'tinymce/plugins/autolink';
import 'tinymce/plugins/charmap';
import 'tinymce/plugins/code';
import 'tinymce/plugins/media';
import 'tinymce/plugins/visualblocks';
import 'tinymce/plugins/fullscreen';
import 'tinymce/plugins/insertdatetime';
import 'tinymce/plugins/preview';
import 'tinymce/plugins/help';
// Include resources that a plugin lazy-loads at the run-time
import 'tinymce/plugins/help/js/i18n/keynav/en';
import 'tinymce/plugins/image';
import 'tinymce/plugins/link';
import 'tinymce/plugins/lists';
import 'tinymce/plugins/searchreplace';
import 'tinymce/plugins/table';
import 'tinymce/plugins/wordcount';

export default function BundledEditor(props) {
  return (
    <Editor
      licenseKey='gpl'
      {...props}
    />
  );
}

  5. Add BundledEditor component with configuration into App.jsx.

    import { useRef } from 'react';
import BundledEditor from './BundledEditor'
import './App.css';

export default function App() {
  const editorRef = useRef(null);
  const log = () => {
    if (editorRef.current) {
      console.log(editorRef.current.getContent());
    }
  };

  return (
    <>
      <BundledEditor
        onInit={(_evt, editor) => editorRef.current = editor}
        initialValue='<p>This is the initial content of the editor.</p>'
        init={{
          height: 500,
          menubar: false,
          plugins: [
            'advlist', 'autolink', 'lists', 'link', 'image', 'charmap',
            'anchor', 'searchreplace', 'visualblocks', 'code', 'fullscreen',
            'insertdatetime', 'media', 'table', 'preview', 'help', 'wordcount'
          ],
          toolbar: 'undo redo | blocks | ' +
            'bold italic forecolor | alignleft aligncenter ' +
            'alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist outdent indent | ' +
            'removeformat | help',
          content_style: 'body { font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px }'
        }}
      />
      <button onClick={log}>Log editor content</button>
    </>
  );
}

  6. Run the development server to test the application:

    npm run dev

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