Integrating Quill text editor in an Angular application

Question

I am learning how to create blogging websites. I tried a simple example first. But the text editor is not showing up on my screen. I installed Quill with npm install --save [email protected] ngx-quill command. My app.component.html is very simple.

<nav class="navbar navbar-expand-lg navbar-light bg-light">
  <a class="navbar-brand ml-auto mr-auto" href="#">Quill JS Editor with Angular</a>
</nav>

<div class="container">
  <div class="row pt-5">
    <div class="col-md-8">
      <form [formGroup]="editorForm" (ngSubmit)="onSubmit()">
        <div class="form-group">
          <label for="editor">
            <h3>Editor</h3>
          </label>
          <quill-editor></quill-editor>
        </div>
      </form>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-4 bg-light p-4">
      <h3>Output</h3>
      <p class="my-5"></p>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Actually it should look like.

I have also imported FormGroup and FormControl from @angular/forms in my app.component.ts which contains the following code.

import { Component, OnInit } from '@angular/core';
import { FormGroup, FormControl } from '@angular/forms';

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent implements OnInit {
  editorForm: FormGroup;
  ngOnInit() {
    this.editorForm = new FormGroup({
      'editor': new FormControl(null)
    })
  }
}

But I am getting this error.

The entire project is on github. Please tell me what else I am missing in this project.

Answer 1

Follow these steps it should work:

1- Installation:

 npm install ngx-quill
 npm install @angular/core
 npm install @angular/common
 npm install @angular/forms
 npm install @angular/platform-browser
 npm install quill
 npm install rxjs — peer dependencies of rxjs-quill

• include theme stylings: bubble.css, snow.css of quilljs in your index.html, or add them in your css/scss files with @import statements, or add them external stylings in your build process.

Update the angular.json file with the following code:

  “styles”: [
          “./node_modules/@angular/material/prebuilt-themes/indigo-pink.css”,
          “src/styles.css”,
          “./node_modules/quill/dist/quill.core.css”,
          “./node_modules/quill/dist/quill.snow.css”
        ],
        “scripts”: [“./node_modules/quill/dist/quill.js”]

import it in your app.module.ts

   import { QuillModule } from 'ngx-quill'

and in the imports add it like bellow

 @NgModule({
  declarations:[],
  imports:[
    CommonModule,
    QuillModule.forRoot(),
  ]
 })

in your component.ts file you can modify the editor style like bellow code:

   editorStyle = {
     height: '200px'
   };

and in your component.html file you could call it like bellow code:

 <div id="quill">
                <p>Content *</p>
                <quill-editor [styles]="editorStyle" placeholder="Enter Text" [modules]="config"
                    formControlName="yourCtrlname" required>
                </quill-editor>
            </div>

You can also check: https://lifecoders.wordpress.com/angular/quill-rich-text-editor-setup-in-angular-7-8/

and here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/ng-quill

Answer 2

It means you haven't configured that library properly, particularly you should be importing QuillModule.forRoot() so that all delivered with this library providers are properly initialized.

@NgModule({
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    QuillModule.forRoot(),
...

Btw, this is how documentation tells us to do it.