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A "Notion-style" block-based extensible text editor built on top of Prosemirror and Tiptap.

BlockNote

Welcome to BlockNote editor: a "Notion-style" block-based extensible text editor built on top of Prosemirror and Tiptap.

Live demo

Play with the editor @ https://blocknote-main.vercel.app/.

(Source in examples/editor)

Example code (React)

import { EditorContent, useEditor } from "@blocknote/core";
import "@blocknote/core/style.css";

function App() {
  const editor = useEditor({
    onUpdate: ({ editor }) => {
      // Log the document to console on every update
      console.log(editor.getJSON());
    },
  });

  return <EditorContent editor={editor} />;
}

Features

BlockNote comes with a number of features and components to make it easy to embed a high-quality block-based editor in your app:

Animations:

Helpful placeholders:

Drag and drop blocks:

Nesting / indentation with tab and shift+tab:

Slash (/) menu:

Format menu:

Real-time collaboration:

Contributing

Directory structure:

blocknote
├── packages/core       - The editor that can be used in other applications
├── examples/editor     - The main example application that just embeds the editor
└── tests               - Playwright end to end tests

An introduction into the BlockNote Prosemirror schema can be found in packages/core/ARCHITECTURE.md.

Running

To run the project, open the command line in the project's root directory and enter the following commands:

# Install all required npm modules for lerna, and bootstrap lerna packages
npm install
npm run bootstrap

# Start the example project
npm start

Adding packages

• Add the dependency to the relevant package.json file (packages/xxx/package.json)
• run npm run install-new-packages
• Double check package-lock.json to make sure only the relevant packages have been affected

Credits ❤️

BlockNote builds directly on two awesome projects; Prosemirror by Marijn Haverbeke and Tiptap. Consider sponsoring those libraries when using BlockNote: Prosemirror, Tiptap.

BlockNote is built as part of TypeCell. TypeCell is proudly sponsored by the renowned NLNet foundation who are on a mission to support an open internet, and protect the privacy and security of internet users. Check them out!