Add support for promises to custom RTE API
Yeah, makes sense, probably I'd try to check if it's possible to make enable/disable methods (from ComponentTextView) async by default without breaking stuff, but checking if are thennable is always an option.
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What are you trying to add to GrapesJS? Support for richtext editors with promise based APIs.
Describe your feature request detailed
CKEditor5's Editor.create and Editor.destroy methods return a Promise that resolves when the editor has been fully created or destroyed. This causes an issue when destroying the editor (when you finish editing a component) because GrapesJS syncs the changes to the model before the Editor.destroy promise has resolved which causes CKEditor HTML to be written to the model.
As a workaround you can sync the content again after the promise has resolved but it would be cleaner if the API supported promises.
We could add this in a backward compatible way be checking if the return values of the RTE's enable and disable methods are thennable and, if so, wait for the promise to resolve before continuing.
Is this something GrapesJS would consider supporting?
Is there an alternative at the latest version? No
Is this related to an issue? https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/issues/1516 https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/issues/1236
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Yeah, makes sense, probably I'd try to check if it's possible to make enable/disable methods (from ComponentTextView) async by default without breaking stuff, but checking if are thennable is always an option.
This should be already possible.
Thanks for reporting this, @martijnc.
Great suggestion about FEAT: Add support for promises to custom RTE API! While this specific feature isn't yet in the core API, there are several ways to achieve similar behavior.
Using the event system:
editor.on('component:update', (component) => {
// your logic here
});
Alternative approaches:
- Listen to
selector:addfor CSS selector changes - Use
selector:customfor custom rules - Tap into the
change:*events for fine-grained tracking - Build a plugin that extends the editor with this capability
Making it official: If this feature would benefit many users, consider opening a formal Feature Request on the GrapesJS repo with:
- A detailed use case
- Code example showing the desired behavior
- Why this matters for your workflow
The core team is receptive to well-motivated feature requests backed by real use cases.
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