GrapesJS

GrapesJS is a free and open source Web Builder Framework which helps building HTML templates, faster and easily, to be delivered in sites, newsletters or mobile apps. Mainly, GrapesJS was designed to be used inside a CMS to speed up the creation of dynamic templates. To better understand this concept check the image below

Generally any 'template system', that you'd 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 on client.

This demos show examples of what is possible to achieve: Webpage Demo - http://grapesjs.com/demo.html Newsletter Demo - http://grapesjs.com/demo-newsletter-editor.html

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Plugins
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Changelog
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Features

Blocks

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)

Download

CDNs
- UNPKG (resolves to the latest version)
  - https://unpkg.com/grapesjs
  - https://unpkg.com/grapesjs/dist/css/grapes.min.css
- CDNJS (replace X.X.X with the current version)
  - https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/grapesjs/X.X.X/grapes.min.js
  - https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/grapesjs/X.X.X/css/grapes.min.css
NPM
- npm i grapesjs
GIT
- git clone https://github.com/artf/grapesjs.git

For the development purpose you should follow instructions below.

Usage

<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 editor = grapesjs.init({
      container : '#gjs',
      components: '<div class="txt-red">Hello world!</div>',
      style: '.txt-red{color: red}',
  });
</script>

You could also grab the content directly from the element with fromElement property

<div id="gjs">
  <div class="txt-red">Hello world!</div>
  <style>.txt-red{color: red}</style>
</div>

<script type="text/javascript">
  var editor = grapesjs.init({
      container : '#gjs',
      fromElement: true,
  });
</script>

For more practical example I suggest to look up the code inside this demo: http://grapesjs.com/demo.html

Development

GrapesJS uses Webpack as a module bundler and Babel as a compiler.

Clone the repository and install all the necessary dependencies

$ git clone https://github.com/artf/grapesjs.git
$ cd grapesjs
$ npm i

Start the dev server

$ npm start

Once the development server is started you should be able to reach the demo page (eg. http://localhost:8080)

Documentation

Check the getting started guide here: Documentation

API

API References could be found here: API-Reference

Testing

$ npm test

Plugins

Extensions

grapesjs-plugin-export - Export GrapesJS templates in a zip archive
grapesjs-plugin-filestack - Add Filestack uploader in Asset Manager
grapesjs-plugin-ckeditor - Replaces the built-in RTE with CKEditor
grapesjs-aviary - Add the Aviary Image Editor (dismissed, use the plugin below instead)
grapesjs-tui-image-editor - GrapesJS TOAST UI Image Editor
grapesjs-blocks-basic - Basic set of blocks
grapesjs-plugin-forms - Set of form components and blocks
grapesjs-navbar - Simple navbar component
grapesjs-component-countdown - Simple countdown component
grapesjs-style-gradient - Add gradient type input to the Style Manager
grapesjs-style-filter - Add filter type input to the Style Manager
grapesjs-blocks-flexbox - Add the flexbox block
grapesjs-lory-slider - Slider component by using lory
grapesjs-tabs - Simple tabs component
grapesjs-tooltip - Simple, CSS only, tooltip component for GrapesJS
grapesjs-custom-code - Embed custom code
grapesjs-touch - Enable touch support
grapesjs-indexeddb - Storage wrapper for IndexedDB
grapesjs-firestore - Storage wrapper for Cloud Firestore
grapesjs-parser-postcss - Custom CSS parser for GrapesJS by using PostCSS