Best practices for saving the content in a database

[charklewis]

Are there any best practices on saving the data to a database? What data would we need to save, and how would we populate the composer with that data?

[zurfyx]

JSON.stringify(editorState) and editor.setEditorState(editor.parseEditorState(editorStateJSON))

You may want to check how file import/export works! https://github.com/facebook/lexical/blob/main/packages/lexical-file/src/fileImportExport.js

That said, and one of the reasons why we have a ⚠️ on the main README is that we're actively working on a versioning system, especially oriented towards custom app nodes.

Alternatively, you can build your own format based on the tree structure.

editor.getEditorState().read(() => {
  $getRoot() // iterate from here and build your own JSON or whatever format you prefer
});

The last works best when you already have documents in certain format on the database, like it is the case for many surfaces at Meta.

[charklewis]

Awesome, thanks! I'll have a look tomorrow. I have been really enjoying using the package so far.

[charklewis]

Do you think if I use JSON.stringify(editorState) there will be an upcoming breaking changes that would cause me any troubles?

[zurfyx]

Unlikely on our end. You may want to read over the first chunk even if it's just a draft - #1768

[mrkchang]

Is there a best practice on large corpus of text? e.g. a book of 300 pgs