5 react-native-enriched-html Use Cases You Might Not Know About
Article Summary
Igor Furgala from Software Mansion reveals how react-native-enriched-html goes way beyond rich text editing. Think it's just another HTML editor? Think again.
Most developers know react-native-enriched-html as a rich text editor, but it solves critical TextInput limitations that plague React Native apps. This deep dive explores five unexpected use cases that leverage the library's native-side processing for features standard TextInput simply can't handle.
Key Takeaways
- Emoji pickers run entirely native side, avoiding JS thread FPS drops on low-end devices
- Slash commands (like Slack/Discord) use the same mention API as emoji detection
- Custom context menu items provide text selection, range, and callbacks out of the box
- Image pasting captures URLs, dimensions, and MIME types with onPasteImages event
- Custom link detection via regex replaces fragmented multi-library solutions
react-native-enriched-html consolidates features that previously required multiple libraries while processing everything on the native side for better performance.
About This Article
React Native's TextInput component doesn't support features that modern apps need, like custom context menus, image pasting, and customizable link detection.
Igor Furgala and Software Mansion created EnrichedTextInput, which handles these tasks on the native side using props such as contextMenuItems, onPasteImages, and linkRegex. This approach enables AI text rewriting, image dimension capture, and custom domain deep links without the overhead of JavaScript processing.
Developers can now use one library instead of five separate ones, reducing dependencies while keeping native performance intact on lower-end devices through native-side event handling and text processing.