Contenido is a library for building highly customizable rich text editors in React. Check out the documentation and demos here.

Using contenido you can create rich text editors in MUI(Material-UI), TailwindCSS, Bootstrap, and any other UI library or CSS frameworks.

Contenido is a library with a set of tools to help you create your own editor on top of draft-js without thinking about how to handle things.

The main purpose is to give you the ability of creating your own custom look rich text editor a lot faster and easier.

You can add contenido to your project by running the following commands:

React + Typescript:

npm i draft-js @types/draft-js contenido@latest

React + Javascript:

npm i draft-js contenido@latest

react >= 18.0.0
react-dom >= 18.0.0
draft-js >= 0.11.0

Contenido provides a ton of ready to use utilities to boost your development speed. Also there are methods to help you customize things in it. Here are some the library features:

• Inline

  • bold
  • italic
  • undeline
  • line through
  • overline
  • superscript
  • subscript

• Block

  • heading one to six (h1-h6)
  • ordered list
  • unordered list
  • blockquote

• Insertion

  • image
  • video
  • audio
  • file
  • link

• Text alignment

• Inline style clearing

• Block type clearing

• Entities clearing

• Atomic data update

• Built-in shortcuts

• Word array

• Link preview

• Light and dark mode friendly

• Counter

  • word counter
  • character counter
  • image counter
  • video counter
  • file counter
  • audio counter
  • link counter

Using contenido there is no need to install a lot of plugins, you have all functionalities in one place. The package is tree-shakable, you can enjoy a no-plugin system and have the proper bundle size in one go.

Contenido is completely written in typescript, so you are safe to use that in your projects.

You have the core functionalities of an edior, so can build your custom look RTE a lot faster and easier. Here is an example of using contenido in MUI(Material-UI), TailwindCSS.

• MUI (Material-UI)

import { useState, type FC } from 'react';
import { EditorState } from 'draft-js';
import { Editor, isBold, toggleBold } from 'contenido';

// MUI Components
import Box from '@mui/material/Box';
import Button from '@mui/material/Button';

// Custom Types
export interface MuiExampleEditorProps {}

const MuiExampleEditor: FC<MuiExampleEditorProps> = (props) => {
  // States
  const [state, setState] = useState(EditorState.createEmpty());

  return (
    <Box sx={{ display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column', gap: 2 }}>
      <Button
        variant={isBold(state) ? 'contained' : 'outlined'}
        color='info'
        onClick={() => {
          toggleBold(state, setState);
        }}
      >
        Bold
      </Button>
      <Editor
        editorState={editorState}
        onChange={setEditorState}
        placeholder='MUI Rich Text Editor'
      />
    </Box>
  );
};

export default MuiExampleEditor;

• Tailwind CSS

import { useState, type FC } from 'react';
import { EditorState } from 'draft-js';
import { Editor, isBold, toggleBold } from 'contenido';

// Custom Types
export interface TailwindCSSExampleEditorProps {}

const TailwindCSSExampleEditor: FC<TailwindCSSExampleEditorProps> = (props) => {
  // States
  const [state, setState] = useState(EditorState.createEmpty());

  return (
    <div className='flex flex-col gap-2'>
      <button
        className={`${
          isBold(state) ? 'bg-sky-400' : 'bg-sky-100'
        } py-8 px-16 border border-gray-300`}
        onClick={() => {
          toggleBold(state, setState);
        }}
      >
        Bold
      </button>
      <Editor
        editorState={editorState}
        onChange={setEditorState}
        placeholder='TailwindCSS Rich Text Editor'
      />
    </div>
  );
};

export default TailwindCSSExampleEditor;

Check out the documentation here.