GrapesJS

GrapesJS is a free and open source Web Template Editor for building HTML templates to be used inside sites, webapps, newsletters or anything else related with HTML. Mainly GrapesJS was designed to be used inside a CMS to speed up creation of dynamic templates. To better understand this concept check the image below

Generally any 'template system', that you can find in various applications like CMS, is composed by the structure (HTML), style (CSS) and variables, which are then replaced with other templates and contents on server-side and rendered soon on client.

This demo shows an example of what is possible to achieve: http://grapesjs.com/demo.html

Features

• Style Manager, for component styling
  

• Layer Manager, that comes handy with nested elements
  

• Code Viewer
  

• Asset Manager, for uploading and managing images
  

• Local and remote storage

• Default built-in commands (basically for creating and managing different components)

Installation

You can get GrapesJS with bower install grapesjs or via git clone https://github.com/artf/grapesjs.git to directly use it. For development purpose you should follow instructions below.

Development

GrapesJS uses RequireJS to organize its files inside src folder and Grunt for build them to dist

Clone the repository and enter inside the folder

$ npm install -g grunt-cli
$ git clone https://github.com/artf/grapesjs.git
$ cd grapesjs

Install all necessary dependencies

$ npm install

Build GrapesJS

$ npm run build

Launch server, which also gonna watch some files, and try out the demo on localhost:8000

$ npm run dev

Tests are already available inside browser on localhost:8000/test

If Grunt is already installed globally you could change the port by using grunt dev --port 9000

Usage

JQuery is the only hard dependency so you have to include it before use GrapesJS.

<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.0.min.js"></script>

After that include scripts from GrapesJS with all your configurations and render it.

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/grapes.min.css">
<script src="path/to/grapes.min.js"></script>
<div id="gjs"></div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  var gjs  = new GrapesJS({
      container : '#gjs',
  });
  gjs.render();
</script>

Unfortunately with the configuration above you wouldn't see a lot. This because GrapesJS it self is simply empty, adding panels, buttons and other stuff will be your job (actually it's not empty but you need buttons to show them up). The section below will explain some basic configurations but for a more practical example I suggest to look up the code inside this demo: http://grapesjs.com/demo.html

Documentation is under construction here: wiki

Configuration

For now I only show up some general settings, for more details check source or demo. Examples will be available soon

var config = {

  // Prefix to use inside local storage name
  storagePrefix:      'wte-',

  // Where to render editor (eg. #myId)
  container:          '',

  // Enable/Disable the possibility to copy (ctrl + c) and paste (ctrl + v) elements
  copyPaste:          true,

  // Enable/Disable undo manager
  undoManager:        true,

  //Indicates which storage to use. Available: local | remote | none
  storageType:        'local',

  //Configurations for Asset Manager (check src/asset_manager/config/config.js)
  assetManager:       {},

  //Configurations for Style Manager (check src/style_manager/config/config.js)
  styleManager:       {},

  //Configurations for Layers (check src/navigator/config/config.js)
  layers:             {},

  //Configurations for Storage Manager (check src/storage_manager/config/config.js)
  storageManager:     {},

  //Configurations for Rich Text Editor (check src/rich_text_editor/config/config.js)
  rte:                {},

  //Configurations for Components (check src/dom_components/config/config.js)
  components:         {},

  //Configurations for Panels (check src/panels/config/config.js)
  panels:             {},

  //Configurations for Commands (check src/commands/config/config.js)
  commands:           {},

};

API

At the moment render() is the only available method but others will be public very soon...

Testing

ATTENTION: tests are pretty far away from being complete

Tests are run by PhantomJS using Mocha (with Chai and Sinon help)

$ npm run test

Todos before beta release

• Class Manager (in development) - Ability to assign different classes to components and style them (because CSS with only ids is pretty much a pain)
• Breakpoint Manager - Resize canvas according to breakpoints established by user (in simple terms, for responsive templates). Will be put into development immediately after Class Manager
• Style Manager improvements - Mainly stack type is not yet complete

Acknowledgements

GrapesJS is built on top of this amazing open source projects:

• Backbone - gives Backbone to web applications
• Backbone.Undo - a simple Backbone undo-manager
• Keymaster - keyboard shortcuts
• CodeMirror - versatile text editor
• Spectrum - no hassle colorpicker
• FontAwesome - the iconic font and CSS framework

Support

A star/fork is already a huge motivational support and I'd like to thank all of you for that, but if you want to contribute the project economically and you have this possibility you could use the link below ❤️

Contributing

Any kind of help is welcome. At the moment there is no generic guidelines so use usual pull requests and push to dev branch

License

BSD 3-clause