Tiptap Rich Text Editor

Status: Production Ready ✅ Last Updated: 2025-11-29 Production Tested: GitLab, Statamic CMS, shadcn minimal-tiptap (3.14M downloads/week)

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Auto-Trigger Keywords

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Primary Keywords

• tiptap
• rich text editor
• WYSIWYG editor
• text editor
• content editor
• markdown editor

Secondary Keywords

• tiptap react
• tiptap shadcn
• tiptap tailwind
• tiptap next.js
• collaborative editing
• prose editor
• blog editor
• comment editor
• documentation editor
• notion-like editor

Error-Based Keywords

• "SSR has been detected"
• "immediatelyRender"
• "tiptap hydration error"
• "tiptap typography not working"
• "tiptap image upload"
• "tiptap performance"
• "headings not styled"

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What This Skill Does

Provides comprehensive knowledge for building rich text editors with Tiptap in React applications, including SSR-safe setup, image uploads to R2, Tailwind v4 integration, and shadcn/ui components.

Core Capabilities

✅ SSR-safe editor setup (prevents Next.js hydration errors) ✅ Image upload patterns for Cloudflare R2/S3 ✅ Tailwind v4 prose styling with semantic colors ✅ shadcn/ui minimal-tiptap component integration ✅ Collaborative editing with Y.js ✅ Common extension bundles (minimal, basic, standard, advanced) ✅ 5+ documented errors with proven fixes

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Known Issues This Skill Prevents

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When to Use This Skill

✅ Use When:

• Creating blog/article editors
• Adding rich text comments to your app
• Building documentation platforms
• Implementing Notion-like collaborative editors
• Setting up tiptap with shadcn/ui
• Uploading images to Cloudflare R2
• Troubleshooting SSR hydration errors
• Configuring Tailwind prose styling

❌ Don't Use When:

• Building simple plain text inputs (use <textarea>)
• Need Microsoft Word-level features (consider TinyMCE/CKEditor)
• Working with non-React frameworks (Tiptap has Vue/Svelte versions)

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Quick Usage Example

# Install core dependencies
npm install @tiptap/react @tiptap/starter-kit @tiptap/pm

# Install optional extensions
npm install @tiptap/extension-image @tiptap/extension-typography

# Install Tailwind Typography (recommended)
npm install @tailwindcss/typography

import { useEditor, EditorContent } from '@tiptap/react'
import StarterKit from '@tiptap/starter-kit'

export function Editor() {
  const editor = useEditor({
    extensions: [StarterKit],
    content: '<p>Hello World!</p>',
    immediatelyRender: false, // ⚠️ Required for SSR
    editorProps: {
      attributes: {
        class: 'prose prose-sm focus:outline-none min-h-[200px] p-4',
      },
    },
  })

  return <EditorContent editor={editor} />
}

Result: SSR-safe rich text editor with basic formatting (bold, italic, headings, lists)

Full instructions: See SKILL.md

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Token Efficiency Metrics

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Package Versions (Verified 2025-11-29)

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Dependencies

Prerequisites: None

Integrates With:

• tailwind-v4-shadcn (recommended for styling)
• react-hook-form-zod (optional for form integration)
• cloudflare-worker-base (optional for R2 image uploads)
• cloudflare-r2 (optional for image storage)

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File Structure

tiptap/
├── SKILL.md                # Complete documentation
├── README.md               # This file
├── templates/              # Ready-to-use code templates
│   ├── base-editor.tsx     # SSR-safe editor component
│   ├── minimal-tiptap-setup.sh  # shadcn component installer
│   ├── image-upload-r2.tsx # R2 upload handler
│   ├── tiptap-prose.css    # Tailwind styling
│   ├── common-extensions.ts # Extension bundles
│   └── package.json        # Dependencies
└── references/             # Additional documentation
    ├── tiptap-docs.md      # Quick docs links
    ├── common-errors.md    # Troubleshooting guide
    └── extension-catalog.md # Extensions reference

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Official Documentation

• Tiptap: https://tiptap.dev
• Installation: https://tiptap.dev/docs/editor/installation/react
• Extensions: https://tiptap.dev/docs/editor/extensions
• shadcn minimal-tiptap: https://github.com/Aslam97/shadcn-minimal-tiptap
• Context7 Library: tiptap/tiptap

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Related Skills

• tailwind-v4-shadcn - Tailwind v4 + shadcn/ui setup
• react-hook-form-zod - Form handling with Tiptap
• cloudflare-r2 - Image storage for uploads
• cloudflare-worker-base - Vite + React project setup

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Contributing

Found an issue or have a suggestion?

• Open an issue: https://github.com/jezweb/claude-skills/issues
• See SKILL.md for detailed documentation

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License

MIT License - See main repo LICENSE file

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Production Tested: GitLab (issue descriptions), Statamic CMS (default editor), shadcn minimal-tiptap (3.14M weekly downloads)

Token Savings: ~71% (14k → 4k tokens)

Error Prevention: 100% (5/5 critical errors prevented)

Ready to use! See SKILL.md for complete setup.