Adding Turbolinks Compatibility to SimpleMDE Markdown Editor
Episode 152 · November 14, 2016
Learn how to use Javascript constructors and destructors with Turbolinks to add compatilibty to any Javascript library you want
Turbolinks Frontend Javascript
Discussion
I prefer to remove turbolinks because libraries dont work nice with it, but would be great to know how to make them all compatible with turbolinks.
Great episode, thanks Chris!
I've been struggling with Front-end frameworks, like Bootstrap and others. The JavaScript components only work on initial page load (or after a page refresh).
I've tried using jQuery turbolinks, but never seems to help. Would love to hear your approach on how to get around this.
Thanks again!
The simple solution for most of Bootstrap is just to use the turbolinks:load event for re-initializing your JS. For example, to enable tooltips and popovers for all pages, you can do:
$(document).on 'turbolinks:load', ->
$('[data-toggle="tooltip"]').tooltip()
$('[data-toggle="popover"]').popover()
Some of the other things like bootstrap modals don't need this because the JS is written in a way that makes it automatically compatible from what I've seen. Bootstrap 3 doesn't have too many compatibility issues with Turbolinks 5 these days.
Got it, makes sense! Thanks, Chris!
Also, I'm loving the new look and features!
More stuff coming soon! :D
Thanks Chris for this video.
Would you mind to cover how to upload images to SimpleMDE like in WordPress editor?
Example:
Browse photo(s) -> the photo(s) get displayed directly on the text editor.
Thank you!
Example screenshot:
http://cdn4.wpbeginner.com/...
For those of you using CKEditor the trick is a little bit more complicated.
I would recommend reading Gambala comment for Turbolink 5 (near the bottom): https://github.com/galetahu...
better write your updating here
https://gorails.com/forum/s...
simplemde = null
cleanupSimpleMDE = ->
if simplemde?
simplemde.toTextArea()
simplemde = null
$(window).on 'popstate', cleanupSimpleMDE
$(document).on 'turbolinks:before-visit', cleanupSimpleMDE
$(document).on "turbolinks:load", ->
simplemde = new SimpleMDE()
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