How to architect something like Vvvebjs

[givanz]

How to architect something like Vvvebjs

[givanz]

Hi

Thank you.

VvvebJs has a very simple architecture, for editing click and double click events on the iframe are registered.

On click the element that has been clicked is checked against registered components and if it matches any of them then the component properties are loaded in the right column.

On double click the content editable attribute https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/HTML/Editable_content is added to the element and the text toolbar is shown.

No processing is done on html before to add attributes or any other changes, the html is preserved as it is, all elements are editable.

Elements can be dropped on any component in the iframe, there is no checking, this responsibility is passed on the browser that will take care of not allowing it on certain elements if it's the case.

The builder does not generate html, when save button is clicked the iframe html is shown in a modal without any processing, if saveAjax is used then the html is sent through ajax to be saved on the server, to enable server saving check #28 (comment)

The editor is very simple and has only 1475 lines of code without components, you can easily understand how it works https://github.com/givanz/VvvebJs/blob/master/libs/builder/builder.js

[sushant12]

thanks mate. I appreciate it