OpenProject BlockNote extensions

OpenProject extensions for the BlockNote editor.

About this repo

This repo is split into two parts:

• The library itself, which is located in the /lib folder and can be built and packaged with npm run build.
• A demo app, which is located in the src/App.tsx file and can be run locally with npm run dev.

Usage

Installation

Include the following entry to your package.json.

"op-blocknote-extensions": "https://github.com/opf/op-blocknote-extensions/releases/download/<VERSION>/op-blocknote-extensions-<VERSION>.tgz"

(please note: at the time being, you need to replace the version in two places of the url.)

Implementation

First thing is to initialize the library configuration...

  initOpenProjectApi({ baseUrl: "https://my.openproject.url" });

... then setup a blocknote schema extending it with blocks offered by this library...

  const schema = BlockNoteSchema.create().extend({
    blockSpecs: {
      "openProjectWorkPackage": openProjectWorkPackageBlockSpec(),
    },
  });
  type EditorType = typeof schema.BlockNoteEditor;

  const editor = useCreateBlockNote({ schema });

... same for slash menus ...

  const getCustomSlashMenuItems = (editor: EditorType) => {
    return [
      ...getDefaultReactSlashMenuItems(editor),
      openProjectWorkPackageSlashMenu(editor),
    ];
  };

... and include them all in a BlockNote instance

  return (
    <BlockNoteView editor={editor}>
      <SuggestionMenuController
        triggerCharacter="/"
        getItems={async (query: string) =>
          filterSuggestionItems(getCustomSlashMenuItems(editor), query)
        }
      />
    </BlockNoteView>
  );

There's a working example in the src/App.tsx in this repository. You can test it locally by running:

npm run dev

Which will start a vite server with a BlockNote editor instance including the available extensions.

To run locally with valid API requests to an OpenProject instance

Step 1: Make sure that the OpenProject instance URL is correct in App.tsx

initOpenProjectApi({ baseUrl: "https://" });

Step 2: Enable CORS and set the local address of this application at https://openproject.local/admin/settings/api

Set "http://localhost:5173" as the address

Step 3: Generate an API key in OpenProject at https://openproject.local/my/access_tokens

Step 4: Set it in the .env file (may need to copy .env.example to .env) with the key VITE_API_KEY

Step 5: Start the development server - npm run dev

Components in this library

Component	Description
WorkPackage block	Search and display elegantly work package links
...	...

Build

To build the library and generate types and source maps. This will update the dist folder.

npm run build

To develop with OpenProject locally

npm run build
npm pack
cp op-blocknote-extensions-*.tgz ../openproject/frontend
cd ../openproject/frontend
npm i -S op-blocknote-extensions-*.tgz

This should make sure that the package is available for OpenProject even if running on a container.

Releases

Updating the version field in package.json will automatically create a new Git tag with the corresponding version. Pushing this tag to the repository triggers the generation of a new release.

To publish a new release, simply update the version in package.json and merge the changes into the main branch.