Bundling the TinyMCE package with the React framework

Tiny does not recommend bundling the tinymce package. Bundling TinyMCE can be complex and error prone.

The Official TinyMCE React component integrates TinyMCE into React projects. This procedure creates a basic React application containing a TinyMCE editor.

For examples of the TinyMCE integration, visit the tinymce-react storybook.

Prerequisites

This procedure requires Node.js (and npm).

Procedure

Use the Create React App package to create a new React project named tinymce-react-demo.
```
npx create-react-app tinymce-react-demo
```
Change to the newly created directory.
```
cd tinymce-react-demo
```
Install the tinymce, tinymce-react and raw-loader packages and save them to your package.json with --save.
```
npm install --save tinymce @tinymce/tinymce-react raw-loader
```

Using a text editor, create ./src/BundledEditor.js and set the contents to:

import { Editor } from '@tinymce/tinymce-react';

// TinyMCE so the global var exists
// eslint-disable-next-line no-unused-vars
import tinymce from 'tinymce/tinymce';
// DOM model
import 'tinymce/models/dom/model'
// Theme
import 'tinymce/themes/silver';
// Toolbar icons
import 'tinymce/icons/default';
// Editor styles
import 'tinymce/skins/ui/oxide/skin.min.css';

// importing the plugin js.
// if you use a plugin that is not listed here the editor will fail to load
import 'tinymce/plugins/advlist';
import 'tinymce/plugins/anchor';
import 'tinymce/plugins/autolink';
import 'tinymce/plugins/autoresize';
import 'tinymce/plugins/autosave';
import 'tinymce/plugins/charmap';
import 'tinymce/plugins/code';
import 'tinymce/plugins/codesample';
import 'tinymce/plugins/directionality';
import 'tinymce/plugins/emoticons';
import 'tinymce/plugins/fullscreen';
import 'tinymce/plugins/help';
import 'tinymce/plugins/image';
import 'tinymce/plugins/importcss';
import 'tinymce/plugins/insertdatetime';
import 'tinymce/plugins/link';
import 'tinymce/plugins/lists';
import 'tinymce/plugins/media';
import 'tinymce/plugins/nonbreaking';
import 'tinymce/plugins/pagebreak';
import 'tinymce/plugins/preview';
import 'tinymce/plugins/quickbars';
import 'tinymce/plugins/save';
import 'tinymce/plugins/searchreplace';
import 'tinymce/plugins/table';
import 'tinymce/plugins/template';
import 'tinymce/plugins/visualblocks';
import 'tinymce/plugins/visualchars';
import 'tinymce/plugins/wordcount';

// importing plugin resources
import 'tinymce/plugins/emoticons/js/emojis';

// Content styles, including inline UI like fake cursors
/* eslint import/no-webpack-loader-syntax: off */
import contentCss from '!!raw-loader!tinymce/skins/content/default/content.min.css';
import contentUiCss from '!!raw-loader!tinymce/skins/ui/oxide/content.min.css';

export default function BundledEditor(props) {
  const {init, ...rest} = props;
  // note that skin and content_css is disabled to avoid the normal
  // loading process and is instead loaded as a string via content_style
  return (
    <Editor
      init={{
        ...init,
        skin: false,
        content_css: false,
        content_style: [contentCss, contentUiCss, init.content_style || ''].join('\n'),
      }}
      {...rest}
    />
  );
}

Using a text editor, open ./src/App.js and replace the contents with:

import React, { useRef } from 'react';
import BundledEditor from './BundledEditor'

export default function App() {
  const editorRef = useRef(null);
  const log = () => {
    if (editorRef.current) {
      console.log(editorRef.current.getContent());
    }
  };
  return (
    <>
      <BundledEditor
        onInit={(evt, editor) => editorRef.current = editor}
        initialValue='<p>This is the initial content of the editor.</p>'
        init={{
          height: 500,
          menubar: false,
          plugins: [
            'advlist', 'anchor', 'autolink', 'help', 'image', 'link', 'lists',
            'searchreplace', 'table', 'wordcount'
          ],
          toolbar: 'undo redo | blocks | ' +
            'bold italic forecolor | alignleft aligncenter ' +
            'alignright alignjustify | bullist numlist outdent indent | ' +
            'removeformat | help',
          content_style: 'body { font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px }'
        }}
      />
      <button onClick={log}>Log editor content</button>
    </>
  );
}

Test the application using the Node.js development server.
- To start the development server, navigate to the tinymce-react-demo directory and run:
  npm run start
- To stop the development server, select on the command line or command prompt and press Ctrl+C.

Deploying the application to a HTTP server

The application will require further configuration before it can be deployed to a production environment. For information on configuring the application for deployment, see: Create React App - Deployment.

To deploy the application to a local HTTP Server:

Navigate to the tinymce-react-demo directory and run:
```
npm run build
```
Copy the contents of the tinymce-react-demo/build directory to the root directory of the web server.

The application has now been deployed on the web server.

Additional configuration is required to deploy the application outside the web server root directory, such as http://localhost:<port>/my_react_application.

Next Steps

For information on bundling, see: Introduction to bundling TinyMCE
For examples of the TinyMCE integration, see: the tinymce-react storybook.
For information on customizing:
- TinyMCE integration, see: TinyMCE React integration technical reference.
- TinyMCE, see: Basic setup.
- The React application, see: Create React App or the React documentation.