Rich Text Blocks Field

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Hi all :wave:

I’m coming from developing custom headless sites on WordPress using ACF and have just been checking out Strapi due to the toxicity in WP land currently and stumbled upon the Rich Text Blocks field.

There seems to be extremely limited documentation and information on this but seems interesting.

Is this meant to work similar to blocks in WordPress with Gutenberg?

Are you able to develop and add custom blocks to this field?

Anyone have any more information on it at all?

Many thanks in advance :blush:

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I don’t think you can do a lot but it’s a richtext editor. on API you will received it in a certain type

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they might be stored in json fields (depending on the db engine) so check out if you need full text search.
To me this isn’t an ideal approach as it’s kinda proprietary and rather limited, personally I prefer standard formats like markdown or html.

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indeed it’s in json

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for React they made this: GitHub - strapi/blocks-react-renderer: A React renderer for the Strapi's Blocks rich text editor

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Did you check this guys?