Nextcloud Text

📑 Collaborative document editing!

Features

• 📝 Simple focused writing: No distractions, only the formatting you need.
• 🙋 Work together: Share and collaborate with friends and colleagues, no matter if they use Nextcloud or not!
• 💾 Open format: Files are saved as Markdown, so you can edit them from any other text app too.
• ✊ Strong foundation: We use 🐈 tiptap which is based on 🦉 ProseMirror – huge thanks to them!

Nextcloud Text is the default text editor since Nextcloud 17. To start editing just open an existing markdown or plaintext file or create a new one.

Configuration

The rich workspaces in the file list can be disabled either by the users in the files app settings or globally by the admin with the following occ command:

occ config:app:set text workspace_available --value=0

The app can be configured to open files read-only by default. This setting is globally valid and can be set by the admin with the following command:

occ config:app:set text open_read_only_enabled --value=1

🏗 Development setup

This app requires the main branch of the Viewer app to be installed and enabled. Follow its development setup and then continue here.

1. ☁ Clone this app into the apps folder of your Nextcloud: git clone https://github.com/nextcloud/text.git
2. 👩‍💻 In the folder of the app, run the command make to install dependencies and build the Javascript.
3. ✅ Enable the app through the app management of your Nextcloud
4. 🎉 Partytime! Help fix some issues and review pull requests 👍

Use hot module replacement via vite serve

To use the advantages of vite serve with hot module replacement (HMR) and not have to recompile the JS assets after each code change, do the following:

1. Configure your webserver to redirect requests to /apps/text/ to the vite serve server. When using nextcloud-docker-dev, add the following snippet to data/nginx/vhost.d/nextcloud.local and restart the proxy container. You might have to replace /apps/text/ with e.g. /apps-extra/text/ depending on where the text app resides in your dev setup.

   location /apps/text/ {
       proxy_pass http://host.docker.internal:5173/apps/text/;
       # fallback to nextcloud server if vite serve doesn't answer
       error_page 502 = @fallback;
   }
   location @fallback {
       proxy_pass http://nextcloud.local;
   }
   

2. Run npm run serve to start the vite serve server. If text resides somewhere else than /apps/text, run e.g. BASE=/apps-extra/text npm run serve.

Afterwards all changes to the code will apply to the application in your browser automatically thanks to hot module replacement (HMR).

🧙 Advanced development stuff

To build the Javascript whenever you make changes, instead of the full make you can also run npm run build. Or run npm run watch to rebuild on every file save.

🐞 Testing the app

Currently, this app uses three different kinds of tests:

For testing the backend (PHP) Psalm and PHPUnit are used, you can run the testcases (placed in tests/) using the composer scripts psalm and test:unit.

For testing the frontend jest is used for unittests, whereas cypress is used for end2end testing. The unittests are also placed in src/tests/, the cypress tests are placed in cypress/. You can run the tests using the package scripts npm run test (jest), and respective npm run test:cypress (cypress).

Please note the cypress tests require a nextcloud server running, the if no running server is detected a docker container will be started, this requires the current user to be in the docker group. Or you might set the CYPRESS_baseUrl environment variable for a custom nextcloud server.

Adding support for other mime types

• The mime type needs to be known by Nextcloud server (see nextcloud/server#24488 for how this can be added)
• Once that is there, please open a pull request to add them to

  text/src/helpers/mime.js

  Lines 35 to 61 in 12df66f

  	const openMimetypesMarkdown = [
  	'text/markdown',
  	]
  	const openMimetypesPlainText = [
  	'text/plain',
  	'application/cmd',
  	'application/x-empty',
  	'application/x-msdos-program',
  	'application/javascript',
  	'application/json',
  	'application/x-perl',
  	'application/x-php',
  	'application/x-tex',
  	'application/xml',
  	'application/yaml',
  	'text/css',
  	'text/html',
  	'text/org',
  	'text/x-c',
  	'text/x-c++src',
  	'text/x-h',
  	'text/x-java-source',
  	'text/x-ldif',
  	'text/x-python',
  	'text/x-shellscript',
  	]

• You can test them like other mime types in cypress/e2e/files.spec.js

🛠️ Integrate text in your app

Load the editor

In order to load the editor in your app, you'll need to dispatch an event.

use OCA\Text\Event\LoadEditor;

// ...

if (class_exists(LoadEditor::class)) {
	$this->eventDispatcher->dispatchTyped(new LoadEditor());
}

Integrate a file editor

Make sure to check if OCA.Text is available as the Text app needs to be enabled. If you want your app to work without Text being installed, you will need to provide an editor fallback on your own.

window.OCA.Text.createEditor({
	el: document.getElementById('my-editor-div'),
	fileId: 12345,
	filePath: '/Readme.md',
}).then((editor) => {
	// Once ready you can access the editor instance and call methods like:

	editor.setContent('new content') // Beware: this will overwrite the content read from the source file
	editor.setReadOnly(true)
	editor.insertAtCursor('<h1>Heading</h1>')

	// Make sure to destory the editor instance once you remove the dom element
	editor.destroy()
})

Markdown based content editor

window.OCA.Text.createEditor({
	el: document.getElementById('my-editor-div'),
	content: 'initial content',
}).then((editor) => {
	// Once ready you can access the editor instance and call methods like:

	editor.setContent('new content')
	editor.setReadOnly(true)
	editor.insertAtCursor('<h1>Heading</h1>')

	// Make sure to destory the editor instance once you remove the dom element
	editor.destroy()
})