In the system that I'm building, I need the ability to mention Umbraco members in text in the website. In order to do that, I need to build an extension to Umbraco's Rich Text Editor: TinyMCE.
As a content editor, I want to tag members in a message or article so that they get notified about new content about them.
I looked at similar implementations, like in Slack or on X. Slack uses a special html tag for mentions during writing, but then sends the data to the backend with a token with a specific format. I decided to take a similar approach, but for now forget about the translation step. In content, a mention will look like this:
<mention user-id="1324" class="mceNonEditable">@D_Inventor</mention>
Before I started building, I was looking for ways to hook into TinyMCE in Umbraco. This is one of my least favourite things to extend in the Umbraco backoffice. I have done this before though, and I found it easiest to extend the editor if I create a decorator on Umbraco's tinyMceService in AngularJS. In TinyMCE's documentation, I found a feature called 'autoCompleters', which did exactly what I needed, so there was my hook into the editor. My initial code (without any testing yet), looked like this:
rtedecorator.$inject = ["$delegate"]; export function rtedecorator($delegate: any) { const original = $delegate.initializeEditor; $delegate.initializeEditor = function (args: any) { original.apply($delegate, arguments); args.editor.contentStyles.push("mention { background-color: #f7f3c1; }"); args.editor.ui.registry.addAutocompleter("mentions", { trigger: "@", fetch: ( pattern: string, maxResults: number, _fetchOptions: Record<string, unknown> ): Promise<IMceAutocompleteItem[]> // TODO: fetch from backend => Promise.resolve([{ type: "autocompleteitem", value: "1234", text: "D_Inventor" }]), onAction: (api: any, rng: Range, value: string): void => { // TODO: business logic api.hide(); }, }); }; return $delegate; }
I'm using vite and typescript in this project, but I don't have any types for TinyMCE installed. For now I'll keep the any and just try to avoid TinyMCE as much as possible.
I decided to use jest for testing. I found an easy getting started and I quickly managed to get something working.
✅ Success |
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I learned a new tool for unit testing in frontend code. I succesfully applied the tool to write a frontend with unit tests |
I wrote my first test:
mention-manager.test.ts
describe("MentionsManager.fetch", () => { let sut: MentionsManager; let items: IMention[]; beforeEach(() => { items = []; sut = new MentionsManager(); }); test("should be able to fetch one result", async () => { items.push({ userId: "1234", userName: "D_Inventor" }); const result = await sut.fetch(1); expect(result).toHaveLength(1); }); });
I was somewhat surprised by the strictness of the typescript compiler. Working in steps here really meant not adding anything that you aren't actually using yet. For example, I wanted to add a reference to the "UI", because I knew I was going to use that later, but I couldn't actually compile the MentionsManager until I used everything that I put in the constructor.
After a few rounds of red, green and refactor, I ended up with these tests:
mention-manager.test.ts
describe("MentionsManager.fetch", () => { let sut: MentionsManager; let items: IMention[]; beforeEach(() => { items = []; sut = new MentionsManager(() => Promise.resolve(items)); }); test("should be able to fetch one result", async () => { items.push({ userId: "1234", userName: "D_Inventor" }); const result = await sut.fetch(1); expect(result).toHaveLength(1); }); test("should be able to fetch empty result", async () => { const result = await sut.fetch(1); expect(result).toHaveLength(0); }); test("should be able to fetch many results", async () => { items.push({ userId: "1324", userName: "D_Inventor" }, { userId: "3456", userName: "D_Inventor2" }); const result = await sut.fetch(2); expect(result).toHaveLength(2); }); test("should return empty list upon error", () => { const sut = new MentionsManager(() => { throw new Error("Something went wrong while fetching"); }, {} as IMentionsUI); return expect(sut.fetch(1)).resolves.toHaveLength(0); }); });
With this logic in place, I could fetch mentions from any source and show them in the RTE through the 'fetch' hook.
I used the same approach to create a 'pick' method to take the selected member and insert the mention into the editor. This is the code that I ended up with:
mention-manager.ts
export class MentionsManager { private mentions: IMention[] = []; constructor( private source: MentionsAPI, private ui: IMentionsUI ) {} async fetch(take: number, query?: string): Promise<IMention[]> { try { const result = await this.source(take, query); if (result.length === 0) return []; this.mentions = result; return result; } catch { return []; } } pick(id: string, location: Range): void { const mention = this.mentions.find((m) => m.userId === id); if (!mention) return; this.ui.insertMention(mention, location); } }
❓ Uncertainty |
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The Range interface is a built-in type that is really difficult to mock and this interface leaks an implementation detail into my business logic. I feel like there might've been a better way to do this. |
Overall, I think I ended up with simple code that is easy to change. There are still parts of this code that I don't really like. I wanted the business logic to drive the UI, but the code ended up more like a simple store that also does a single call to the UI. I wonder if I could more strongly wrap the UI to get more use out of the manager.
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