Angular Simplemde

This is a angular wrapper for SimpleMDE.

Install

npm install simplemde angular-simplemde

Then import AngularSimplemdeModule in your central module.

Finally, your project should import node_modules/simplemde/dist/simepmde.min.css. If you are using Angular CLI, this can be done in angular.json like this:

// ...
    "styles": [
      // other styles...
      "node_modules/simplemde/dist/simplemde.min.css"
    ],
// ...

Or load the SimpleMde stylesheets via the style.scss/css:

@import "~simplemde/dist/simplemde.min.css"; 

How to use

For the simplest use-case, just use the component like this

<angular-simplemde [(input)]="yourInputVariable"></angular-simplemde>

If you want to customize the configuration, initialize a ISimpleMdeConfig in your component:

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { DefaultActions, ISimpleMdeConfig } from 'projects/angular-simplemde/src/lib/editor/editor-config.model';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
  title = 'editor-demo';

  editorInput = 'test **text**';

  config: ISimpleMdeConfig = {
    actions: DefaultActions,
  };
}

and link it in the template:

<angular-simplemde [(input)]="editorInput" [config]="config"></angular-simplemde>

In case you want to react explicitly on change events on the input, use the (inputChange) directive:

<angular-simplemde [input]="editorInput" (inputChange)="doSomething($event)" [config]="config"></angular-simplemde>

Toolbar options

This library defines several default toolbar actions, such as DefaultActions, which consist of more categorized toolbar actions for text formatting, tables and more.

Additionally, in case you want to embed some special actions inside the default, you can use the EmbedCustomActionsInDefault() function helper.

  config: ISimpleMdeConfig = {
    actions: EmbedCustomActionsInDefault([
    {
        name: 'upper-case',
        title: 'Convert to Upper Case',
        icon: 'fa-text-height',
        action: text => text.toUpperCase()
    }   
    ]),
  };

Hint: use lambdas instead of full function definitions, if you want to keep the this scope to your component.

If your action works with asynchronous functions, you can return an Observable<string> instead of a string.