I am working on creating a React component with a rich text editor included. I chose react-draft-wysiwyg for editing or creating texts and then sending to the server. I will give in the code only the functionality that causes difficulties. I use axios to send requests. For some reason, I can’t get the correct data from the form when sending a POST request. I checked using commands:
console.log(data);
console.log(this.state.editorState);
But there is now text typed in the form. I would like to figure it out, thanks to everyone!
Here is the code:
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { EditorState } from 'draft-js';
import { Editor } from 'react-draft-wysiwyg';
import '../../node_modules/react-draft-wysiwyg/dist/react-draft-wysiwyg.css';
import axios from 'axios';
class AddPost extends Component {
constructor(props) {
super(props);
this.state = {
editorState: EditorState.createEmpty()
};
this.handleSubmit = this.handleSubmit.bind(this);
}
handleChange = (e) => {
this.setState({[e.target.name]: e.target.value})
}
onEditorStateChange = (editorState) => {
this.setState({
editorState
});
}
handleSubmit(e) {
e.preventDefault();
const data = {
content: this.state.editorState
};
axios.post('http://localhost:5555/posts', {data})
.then(res => {
console.log(data);
})
this.setState({editorState: EditorState.createEmpty()})
}
render() {
return (
<div>
<h5>Create document</h5>
<Editor
editorState={this.state.editorState}
wrapperClassName="demo-wrapper"
editorClassName="demo-editor"
onEditorStateChange={this.onEditorStateChange}
/>
<button onClick={this.handleSubmit} className="btn-large waves-effect waves-light xbutton">Save</button>
</div>
);
}
}
export default AddPost;
To get data from draft-js editor you need to use
this.state.editorState.getCurrentContent().getPlainText();