Lexical AnchorPoint :anchor:

A revision of the AutoLink plugin with improvements on URL matching.

The goal of this plugin is to provide an alternative to the AutoLink plugin distributed with Lexical's React package.

Parts of this plugin are inspired by the AutoLink plugin, however AnchorPoint selectively implements the behavior provided there, and puts a core focus on matching URLs reliably, through robust regex tests and increased flexibility.

Unfortunately, the existing AutoLink plugin has core issues that would require a lot of rework, so rather than merging substantial changes into that package, this repository provides a centralized place to start fresh and build a simple, yet effective link matching plugin.

This plugin is in the early stages and does not yet fully implement all functionality provided by the original AutoLink plugin, but it addresses the glaring issues that have been identified consistently by users of Lexical.

Installation instructions

Tests

The plugin depends on a versatile regex pattern to handle matching. There is a large amount of variations of text for which URL matches are tested against. To see these, check out the src/tests/expectations.ts file. You are welcome to build upon these by adding additional expectations to that file, and modifying the corresponding regex.test.ts file.

If you believe you found a common variation that is not accounted for, please raise an issue. It is of course not possible to account for every single URL variation using regex, but this plugin aims to handle 95% of cases.