vue-quilly

Tiny Vue component, that helps to create Quill v2 based WYSIWYG editors in Vue-powered apps. Flexible setup, no styles, ready for further customization.

Default input data format is HTML, but also has Delta support - using Quill API and exposed Quill instance. In short, HTML and Delta inputs works in a same way, you can use one of them or both formats to change editor data model.

It's not a all-in-one solution and requires further Quill configuration. In other hand, you can build your own editor, that matches your needs, with easy. No matter if you want to create full-featured editor with all Quill's modules or small custom solution with extra functionality, you can use this package as a base start point:

• Run demo, that shows editors, builded upon QuillyEditor component.
• See editors example.
• Create editors with Nuxt 3.

Features

• Builded on top of Quill v2 and Vue 3
• Uses quill/core to prevent importing all Quill modules
• Works with both HTML and Quill Delta format
• Typescript support

Setup

Browser:

<!-- Include Quill 2 -->
<link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/quill.snow.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/quill.js"></script>

<!-- Import Vue and vue-quilly -->
<script type="importmap">
  {
    "imports": {
      "vue": "https://unpkg.com/vue@3/dist/vue.esm-browser.js",
      "vue-quilly": "https://unpkg.com/[email protected]/dist/vue-quilly.js"
    }
  }
</script>

<!-- Initialize the editor -->
<div id="app">
  <quilly-editor ref="editor" v-model="model" :options="options" />
</div>

<script type="module">
  import { createApp, ref, onMounted } from 'vue'
  import { QuillyEditor } from 'vue-quilly'

  createApp({
    setup() {
      const options = {
        theme: 'snow',
        modules: {
          toolbar: true,
        },
        placeholder: 'Compose an epic...',
        readOnly: false
      }
      
      const editor = ref()
      const model = ref('<p>Hello Quilly!</p>')
      let quill = null
      
      onMounted(() => {
        quill = editor.value.initialize(Quill)
      })
      
      return {
        editor,
        options,
        model
      }
    }
  })
    .component('QuillyEditor', QuillyEditor)
    .mount('#app')
</script>

Browser setup demo - https://codepen.io/redrobot753/pen/VwJwPLP

Bundlers:

npm install quill vue-quilly
# Or
yarn add quill vue-quilly
# Or
pnpm add quill vue-quilly

Import Quill full build if you need all modules or core build with minimum required modules:

import Quill from 'quill' // Full build
import Quill from 'quill/core' // Core build
import { QuillyEditor } from 'vue-quilly'

Add core styles. Also import one of Quill's themes, if you need one:

import 'quill/dist/quill.core.css' // Required
import 'quill/dist/quill.snow.css' // For snow theme (optional)
import 'quill/dist/quill.bubble.css' // For bubble theme (optional)

Define Quill options:

const options = {
  theme: 'snow', // If you need Quill theme
  modules: {
    toolbar: true,
  },
  placeholder: 'Compose an epic...',
  readOnly: false
}

Initialize the editor:

const editor = ref<InstanceType<typeof QuillyEditor>>()
const model = ref<string>('<p>Hello Quilly!</p>')
// Quill instance
let quill: Quill | null = null
onMounted(() => {
  quill = editor.value?.initialize(Quill)!
})

<QuillyEditor
  ref="editor"
  v-model="model"
  :options="options"
  @update:modelValue="(value) => console.log('HTML model updated:', value)"
  @text-change="({ delta, oldContent, source }) => console.log('text-change', delta, oldContent, source)"
  @selection-change="({ range, oldRange, source }) => console.log('selection-change', range, oldRange, source)"
  @editor-change="(eventName) => console.log('editor-change', `eventName: ${eventName}`)"
  @focus="(quill) => console.log('focus', quill)"
  @blur="(quill) => console.log('blur', quill)"
  @ready="(quill) => console.log('ready', quill)"
/>

⚠️ Use v-model for HTML content type. The received content is equal to Quill's editor element innerHTML property value.

In some cases it will be better to use quill.semanticHTML() to get a clean HTML output. For doing this just set a property :is-semantic-html-model="true". See SemanticHTMLEditor example.

Also you can set content in Delta format using Quill instance:

quill?.setContents(
  new Delta()
    .insert('Hello')
    .insert('\n', { header: 1 })
    .insert('Some ')
    .insert('initial', { bold: true })
    .insert(' ')
    .insert('content', { underline: true })
    .insert('\n')
)

This is just basic example and shows you how to build your editor. See creating editors with QullyEditor example or run demo.

Events

The component emits text-change, selection-change, editor-change events, similar to Quill events.

All events types:

Event name	Params
update:modelValue	value: string
text-change	{ delta: Delta, oldContent: Delta, source: EmitterSource }
selection-change	{ range: Range, oldRange: Range, source: EmitterSource }
editor-change	eventName: string
focus	quill: Quill
blur	quill: Quill
ready	quill: Quill

Nuxt

You must build your editor, based on VueQuilly component first. Then put it inside ClientOnly component if you plan to use SSR:

<ClientOnly>
  <CompleteEditor />
</ClientOnly>

See Nuxt 3 example.

License

MIT

Inspiration projects and useful links

https://github.com/quilljs/quill

https://github.com/surmon-china/vue-quill-editor

https://github.com/vueup/vue-quill

https://www.matijanovosel.com/blog/making-and-publishing-components-with-vue-3-and-vite