AppFlowy Editor
A highly customizable rich-text editor for Flutter
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## Key Features
* Build rich, intuitive editors
* Design and modify an ever expanding list of customizable features including
* components (such as form input controls, numbered lists, and rich text widgets)
* shortcut events
* menu options (**coming soon!**)
* themes (**coming soon!**)
* [Test-coverage](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/blob/main/frontend/app_flowy/packages/appflowy_editor/documentation/testing.md) and on-going maintenance by AppFlowy's core team and community of more than 1,000 builders
## Getting Started
Add the AppFlowy editor [Flutter package](https://docs.flutter.dev/development/packages-and-plugins/using-packages) to your environment.
```shell
flutter pub add appflowy_editor
flutter pub get
```
## Creating Your First Editor
Start by creating a new empty AppFlowyEditor object.
```dart
final editorState = EditorState.empty(); // an empty state
final editor = AppFlowyEditor(
editorState: editorState,
keyEventHandlers: const [],
customBuilders: const {},
);
```
You can also create an editor from a JSON object in order to configure your initial state.
```dart
final json = ...;
final editorState = EditorState(StateTree.fromJson(data));
final editor = AppFlowyEditor(
editorState: editorState,
keyEventHandlers: const [],
customBuilders: const {},
);
```
To get a sense for how the AppFlowy Editor works, run our example:
```shell
git clone https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy.git
cd frontend/app_flowy/packages/appflowy_editor/example
flutter run
```
## Customizing Your Editor
### Customizing Components
Please refer to our documentation on customizing AppFlowy for a detailed discussion about [customizing components](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/blob/main/frontend/app_flowy/packages/appflowy_editor/documentation/customizing.md#customize-a-component).
Below are some examples of component customizations:
* [Checkbox Text](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/blob/main/frontend/app_flowy/packages/appflowy_editor/lib/src/render/rich_text/checkbox_text.dart) demonstrates how to extend new styles based on existing rich text components
* [Image](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/blob/main/frontend/app_flowy/packages/appflowy_editor/example/lib/plugin/network_image_node_widget.dart) demonstrates how to extend a new node and render it
* See further examples of [rich-text plugins](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/blob/main/frontend/app_flowy/packages/appflowy_editor/lib/src/render/rich_text)
### Customizing Shortcut Events
Please refer to our documentation on customizing AppFlowy for a detailed discussion about [customizing shortcut events](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/blob/main/frontend/app_flowy/packages/appflowy_editor/documentation/customizing.md#customize-a-shortcut-event).
Below are some examples of shortcut event customizations:
* [BIUS](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/blob/main/frontend/app_flowy/packages/appflowy_editor/lib/src/service/internal_key_event_handlers/update_text_style_by_command_x_handler.dart) demonstrates how to make text bold/italic/underline/strikethrough through shortcut keys
* [Paste HTML](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/blob/main/frontend/app_flowy/packages/appflowy_editor/lib/src/service/internal_key_event_handlers/copy_paste_handler.dart) gives you an idea on how to handle pasted styles through shortcut keys
* Need more examples? Check out [Internal key event handlers](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy/blob/main/frontend/app_flowy/packages/appflowy_editor/lib/src/service/internal_key_event_handlers)
## Glossary
Please refer to the API documentation.
## Contributing
Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.
Please look at [CONTRIBUTING.md](https://appflowy.gitbook.io/docs/essential-documentation/contribute-to-appflowy/contributing-to-appflowy) for details.
## License
Distributed under the AGPLv3 License. See [LICENSE](https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy-Docs/blob/main/LICENSE) for more information.
