TinyMCE documentation

This project maintains the documentation for TinyMCE at https://www.tiny.cloud/docs. If you have any modifications you wish to contribute, fork this project, make the changes and submit a pull request. You will need to sign the contributor’s license agreement, which will be emailed to you upon creating the pull request.

This project is built using Antora.

Contributing to the TinyMCE Documentation

If you would like to contribute to the TinyMCE project please read the TinyMCE Documentation Contributor’s Guide at either:

• TinyMCE Documentation - Contributor's Guide.
• GitHub - How to contribute to TinyMCE’s documentation.

Working on TinyMCE documentation

Compiling or building the documentation

The following procedure assists with building (or compiling) the documentation locally. Tiny recommends testing and reviewing changes locally prior to submitting a pull request.

Installing Prerequisites

Linux users

You need the following programs installed on your computer:

First time set up

Once you have installed any missing prerequisites, in a terminal or on a command prompt:

1. Clone the git repository:

   git clone git@github.com:tinymce/tinymce-docs.git
   

2. Change directory into the cloned git repository:

   cd tinymce-docs
   

3. Run yarn install

   yarn install
   

Run the development version of the documentation

To create a development version of the documentation, run:

yarn build
yarn serve

To view the documentation; in a web browser, navigate to http://127.0.0.1:4000.

Note: The development version of the documentation will update automatically when you save changes locally.

The yarn build step will download the latest TinyMCE package and generate new API reference content from source code. To change the version of TinyMCE API, open the -scripts/api-reference.sh file and edit the API_VERSION to the TinyMCE version you would like to generate API docs for. Alternatively, to build using a local version of TinyMCE, yarn build-local ../path/to/local/TinyMCE.

Note: The development server does not need to be stopped prior to running the yarn build command, antora should pick up the new changes generated by the build step.

TinyMCE API documentation

The TinyMCE API documentation is maintained within the TinyMCE project repository and compiled for the documentation site using MoxieDoc.

To update the published API documentation:

1. Change the version in .api-version.
2. Run yarn build.
3. Commit the changes.

Running yarn build downloads the TinyMCE package specified in .api-version and generates new API reference content from source.

Note: The API documentation should never be edited manually.

Prerequisites

• Node.js.

Live Demos

New live demos can be added to the modules/ROOT/examples/live-demos directory. It then can be referenced in your doc with the following code:

  liveDemo::{sub-directory-name}[]

Overriding the tinymce URL in live demos

All live demos usually get their tinymce.min.js URL from the tinymce_live_demo_url setting in the antora.yml file. However, there are some instances where you wish to override this, e.g.

• You want to push/deploy a branch for a new feature that's only on the 'dev' channel.
• You want to run the site locally, but test out the live demos in a different channel.

To help with this, there are two mechanisms for overriding the tinymce.min.js URL.

1. Change the URL for all live demos by setting the tinymce_live_demo_url attribute in antora-playbook-dev.yml. For example:

     asciidoc
       attributes:
         tinymce_live_demo_url: URL_to_script_file
   

2. Change the URL for an individual live demo by setting script_url_override attribute in the live demo markup. For example:

     liveDemo::{sub-directory-name}[script_url_override='URL_to_script_file']
   

   • This is useful if you want to deploy the develop branch for a feature only in the 'dev' channel.
   • This only overrides the URL for one live demo.
   • Don't use this in more than one live demo on a page.
   • Don't use this long-term - when the feature is fully rolled-out, use the standard channel.