Grow Editor Extension

Status: In Development

Extension for using an editor interface to edit content files.

Usage

Initial setup

1. Create an extensions.txt file within your pod.
2. Add to the file: git+git://github.com/grow/grow-ext-editor
3. Run grow install.
4. Add the following section to podspec.yaml:

ext:
- extensions.editor.EditorExtension

When the extension is enabled (on by default) the editor UI JS and CSS will be added to the build output.

The editor can be viewed at /_grow/editor/.

Environment specific configuration.

The extension can be disabled by using environment tagging:

For example:

ext:
- extensions.editor.EditorExtension:
    enabled@env.prod: False

deployments:
  prod:
    destination: local
    out_dir: build/
    env:
      name: prod

Collection Configuration

In collections, the _editor.yaml file determines which fields to show in the editor. If no configuration file exists for a collection the editor attempts to guess the field types by the values of the content.

# /content/pages/_editor.yaml
fields:
- type: text
  key: $title
  label: Title
- type: textarea
  key: meta.description
  label: Description
- type: partials
  key: partials
  label: Partials

Partial Configuration

Partials in the /view/partials directory can add front matter to their partials to configure how the partial should be displayed in the editor.

---
# /views/partials/hero.html
editor:
  label: Hero
  fields:
  - type: text
    key: title
    label: Title
  - type: text
    key: subtitle
    label: Sub Title
---
<div class="hero">
   ...
</div>

Partials can also define a _editor.yaml file in their main directory to provide the editor with information on how the partial should be displayed for editing.

# /partials/hero/_editor.yaml
editor:
  label: Hero
  fields:
  - type: text
    key: title
    label: Title
  - type: text
    key: subtitle
    label: Sub Title
  - type: text
    key: cta.text
    label: CTA Title

Field Configuration

The key of the field is used to retrieve the value to be edited from the document. To access nested data use the . to separate out key names.

For example, with a document that has a meta value:

# /content/pages/example.yaml
$title: Example page
meta:
  description: Example description

The field can be configured to edit the title and description like so:

# /content/pages/_editor.yaml
editor:
  fields:
  - type: text
    key: $title
    label: Title
  - type: text
    key: meta.description
    label: Description

The following field types are currently available for use in the editor configurations:

• checkbox - Checkbox boolean field.
• date - Date field.
• datetime - Datetime field.
• document - Grow document reference. Appears as !g.doc ... in yaml.
• google_image - Image field for uploading an image to Google Cloud Storage. (Requires configuration.)
• group - Groups together other fields to make them expand/collapse in a group.
• image - Image field for uploading an image to the local filesystem.
• html - Rich editor for HTML content.
• list - List field for controlling lists of values.
• markdown - Rich editor for Markdown content.
• partials - shows the fields for all partials when editor configuration is defined.
• select - Ability to provide a list of options to choose between. Also works as a multi-select.
• string - Grow string reference field. Allows for referencing strings from the /content/strings/ files. Appears as !g.string ... in yaml.
• text - Standard text field. Converts from input to textarea when text becomes longer.
• textarea - Standard textarea field.
• variant - Show different sets of sub fields based on a selected variant.
• yaml - Grow yaml file reference. Appears as !g.yaml ... in yaml.

Development

Note: The editor requires the (selective-edit)[https://github.com/grow/selective-edit] library. For development the selective-edit library should be cloned and linked (using yarn link) first to make development seamless.

To develop the editor extension you need to run a command to watch and compile the code:

cd editor
yarn install
# After you have cloned and linked the selective-edit project:
yarn link selective-edit
yarn run watch

To test the changes in another tab run:

grow install example
grow run example

And visit /_grow/editor/