Headless CMS > Extending Functionality
Render Rich Text Content
Learn how to render rich text content from Headless CMS.
- how to render rich text content from Headless CMS in React
Overview
One of the commonly used field types in our Headless CMS is a rich text field. This field uses https://editorjs.io/ with several additional Webiny plugins. The output data structure of editorjs is an array of objects.
You can render this data as you want by traversing the array and implementing renderers for each block type, but more often than not, you just want to use a predefined React component and move on.
To learn how to use Headless CMS GraphQL API, make sure to check out the Using GraphQL API key topic.
Rendering Rich Text Content
To render rich text content created with editorjs in your React app, Webiny provides a package @webiny/react-rich-text-renderer
with a React component to do just that.
Installation
In your React app, install the following dependency:
Or if you prefer yarn:
Default Rendering
Fetch your data from Headless CMS, then pass it to the component like this:
Adding Custom Renderers
You can override the default renderers or add new renderers for your custom block types like this:
Styling the Output
Styles for default renderers are included in the package and you can import them into your app like this:
If you don’t want to use the default styles, skip this import and implement your own styling.
FAQ
I'm Not Using React. How Do I Render This Using Other Frameworks?
The rendering implementation is really simple and straightforward. You can find the full code in our repo. Using that as a reference, you can quickly put together a renderer in the framework of your choice.