Welcome to the second edition of Pitchburgh Diaries, a fortnightly update on our progress as we work on our plan for a decoupled Layout Builder using React.
by lee.rowlands / 13 October 2023This fortnight we've been focused on completing the API/persistence layer finalized and solidifying the APIs for the front-end components.
But before we get into the details, here's a demo of work so far ✨
Highlights of deliverables for this fortnight:
- Finalised the API
- Added an API for React Widget components plus a Widget manager
- Added a settings tray
- Added support for settings form to React Block components
- Added a document outline with drag and drop support
- Added a footer component that shows breadcrumbs
- Plain text widget
- Rich text widget powered by CKEditor
- Edit and select document modes
- Drag and drop to add new section or block
Our next steps are:
- Finalise documentation and release the front end code so others can start contributing widgets/formatters/blocks and layouts
- Make sidebar panes (left and right) pluggable as an extension point
- Implement save in the front-end (with autosave on idle)
- Implement block/region restrictions in front-end (aka Layout Builder restrictions support) - this already exists in the API.
- Support settings tray for section plugins
- Wire up to Drupal using drupalSettings and plugin definitions
- Undo/Redo support
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