[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #35760: Provide API for TinyMCE editor to be dynamically instantiated via JS

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#35760: Provide API for TinyMCE editor to be dynamically instantiated via JS
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 Reporter:  westonruter  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Editor       |     Version:
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:               |     Focuses:  javascript
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Comment (by azaozz):

 Yeah, it's a good idea to be able to (lazy) load and initialize the editor
 from JS. The current `wp_editor()` is quite a few years old, and will need
 to be rewritten to support that.

 There are three main components for TinyMCE: the core or the concatenated
 core + plugins, the translation, and the init / settings. The last two
 will have to be generated from PHP so a "pure" JS solution is not
 possible.

 There is also the `wplink` modal (HTML) that will probably need
 refactoring to make is easily loadable from JS.

 > Create a Customizer control for a rich text editor.

 I'm not sure it will be possible to use the current TinyMCE in the
 customizer sidebar. There is simply not enough space in there. Also the
 user experience will be quite bad, trying to "preview" something in the
 sidebar? Thinking it will be much better after the customizer UI is
 fixed/updated and (hopefully) moves away from the current layout.

 There is also another option: to make a completely different function
 /mini-API for loading the editor only for use in JS. The translated
 strings will still need to be outputted from PHP, but the editor init
 object can be filterable only from JS. This will not contain any settings
 from existing plugins, but will be a better option for making editor
 instances with different configuration, minimal UI, etc.

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