CKEditor Supports Bower and Composer
Did you know CKEditor 4 is now available on NPM and integrates well with modern JavaScript frameworks like React and Angular?
You can also discover our new awesome rich text editor, CKEditor 5. It also has integrations for React, Angular and Vue.js, plus more!
Since version 4.3.3 CKEditor supports two popular package managers, Bower and Composer. They can be used to install CKEditor releases and keep them up to date in the same way that you maintain other dependencies of your project.
Installed Preset
Both package managers will install the standard-all CKEditor preset that includes all official CKSource plugins with only those from the Standard installation package compiled into the ckeditor.js file and enabled. See here for a comparison of packages.
Additional plugins included in the standard-all preset can be enabled in your configuration by using the config.extraPlugins option.
Tag Changes
Please note that package managers compatibility also meant that the tags used in our ckeditor-releases repository have changed to follow the Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 format.
Since version 4.3.3 this repository uses the following tag naming rules:
x.y.z– contains thestandard-alleditor build, e.g.4.3.3,4.4.0, etc.(basic|standard|full)/x.y.z– contains the editor build with a given preset, e.g.basic/4.3.3.
Custom Configuration & Updates
If you want to use any of the package managers to keep CKEditor up to date, your custom editor configuration should not be done in any of the core CKEditor files like config.js (otherwise you risk overwriting them during the update process).
It is thus recommended to use of the following strategies:
Both options are explained in more detail in the Setting CKEditor Configuration article.
Usage Instructions
Read the new Installing CKEditor with Package Managers article in CKEditor Developer's Guide to learn how to fetch CKEditor using Bower or Composer.
