Simple boilerplate implementation of the Lexical editor for Contentful. Lexical is a new and hightly customisable WYSIWYG. Find our more about Lexical and check out the playground here: Lexical.

This project was bootstrapped with Create Contentful App.

How to use

First, clone, install and build this repository.

# npm
npm install
npm run build

# Yarn
yarn install
yarn run build

Then, go to Apps > Custom Apps > Manage Apps Definition > Create app in your Contentful CMS. Give the app a name and enable Frontend: Hosted by Contentful. Here, you drag and drop the build folder that you just created. Define where the editor should be located (e.g. Entry field: Short text, Long text) and hit save! Done 🥳

This is how the editor should look like in your Contentful CMS:

Extend/Modify

Please refer to the Lexical Documentation on how to extend/modify this boilerplate. Lexical also has a helpful community.

Todo

This is just a first (but working!) proof-of-concept. I need to cleanup the code a bit, write some tests and all that stuff 🙈