I’m working on a custom Magento extension that allows visitors to submit feedback and reviews. Right now users can only enter plain text, but I want to give them formatting options like bold, italic, lists, and maybe some basic styling tools.
I’ve been looking around but I’m not sure which approach works best for frontend implementation. Should I use the built-in Magento editor components or go with a third-party solution? I need something lightweight that won’t slow down the page loading.
Has anyone implemented something similar? Looking for a straightforward example or tutorial that shows the basic setup process. Any guidance would be really helpful.
Interesting challenge! What’s your expected review volume? I’d check out Quill.js - it’s lightweight with clean integration. How’s your current plain text setup working on mobile? That’ll help decide which editor makes sense.
I added TinyMCE to a similar frontend module six months ago - works great for this. Just make sure you initialize it through Magento’s RequireJS instead of loading it separately. I kept it lightweight by only including the basics: bold, italic, and lists. Performance wasn’t an issue, and it plays nice with Magento’s form validation. Don’t forget to sanitize the HTML output on the backend though - XSS vulnerabilities are real. Use Magento’s HTML purifier or add proper filtering. Setup’s pretty straightforward: add TinyMCE to your requirejs-config.js and initialize it in your template’s JS section.
the built-in magento editor components are solid for frontend work. used them last year on a customer portal that needed rich text input - much easier than wrestling with third-party libraries and their dependencies. just extend the admin editor config and remove what you don’t need. loading times were good and no module conflicts.