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This is a fork of Medium Editor Insert Plugin for use in Gumroad’s app.

Why fork?

Gumroad uses Medium Editor for our rich text editor, and this plugin enables the ability to embed images and oembedly links within it.

  • See our implementation of medium editor in Product descriptions, Update messages, and Workflow email messages.
  • See demo of this plugin

In implementing this plugin into our app, we needed ways to:

  • use our existing Flight components to handle image upload to S3 (WithFileUpload)
  • make it play well with FlightJS itself
  • make it end-to-end testable w/ capybara spec tests

Additionally:

  • we wanted to add this plugin to our repo as an NPM package instead of hard-importing JS files
  • we would like to extend this plugin to introduce new extension types (e.g. CTA buttons)
  • at the time of this writing (May 2019), the original plugin has not been updated for 3 years.

While not very ideal, our only option was to fork this plugin.

How do I make updates to this plugin?

  1. yarn install
  2. Make changes to /src/ files
  3. Run grunt to compile files for distribution
  4. Open a PR and request a code review
  5. Once merged and ready to be updated, bump up the version number in package.json, git tag [VERSION_NUMBER], git push origin --tags
  6. Write a changelog in CHANGES.md
  7. Update the version number in gumroad/web's package.json

What are the main changes we had to make?

  • We do not use this plugin's native fileupload() methods for anything
  • When an image is selected, this plugin emits a uiNeedsToUploadRichTextImage event we listen to in our flight component (WithRichTextImageUpload). This includes a copy of the file object we can use to trigger the actual S3 upload.
  • This plugin adds a unique image identifier around the image once uploaded using the hashCode() method within it. This method is available via gumroad/web's string utils. This is so that we can target the image and replace the binary data with the actual S3 URL once uploaded within our Flight component in gumroad/web.
var tempImageClassName = (data.files[0].name + data.files[0].size).hashCode();
...
$place.addClass(‘contains-image-‘ + tempImageClassName);
  • The plugin looks for a skip-dialog class around the file upload input before triggering the file upload modal. This is so that we can override triggering the native file upload modal in capybara tests; without doing this, the open file modal would block everything. See example in updates_spec in gumroad/web for how we test this.
      find(".js-update-message").base.send_keys(:enter)
      page.execute_script("$('.medium-insert-buttons-show').click();")
      page.execute_script("$(\"#medium-insert-file-selector\").addClass('skip-dialog')")
      page.execute_script("$('.medium-insert-action').click();")
      page.attach_file("medium-insert-file-selector", Rails.root.join("spec/sample_data/test.jpg"))

      Timeout.timeout(Capybara.default_max_wait_time) do
        loop until page.evaluate_script("$(\".medium-insert-images-progress\").length == 0;")
      end

  • Remove jquery.sortage (unnecessary dependency)
  • Hide toolbar options on images (unnecessary, was very buggy)

Notable components to look at in gumroad/web:

  • WithRichText
  • WithRichTextImageUpload

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