React-draft-wysiwyg: Pretty much every issue raised for mentions is ignored - are they actually useable?

[MitchEff]

I've just gotten set up with this package, and realised mentions isn't really complete. There's quite a few major issues with it:

• Up/down arrow keys seem to change which mention is selected, but there's no way to add class/style changes, so it's very hard to tell
• In some situations arrow keys do nothing (possibly when mouse is over suggestions)
• No means of getting the mentions from the editorState, except putting a fake URL in and regex-ing out the domain, slashes and hashes
• Occasionally doesn't replace text correctly, resulting in "@John Smith @Jo" instead of expected "@John Smith"

Would we consider it useable, or should it perhaps have a warning somewhere that it doesn't really do what draft-mentions does?

[Sauloxd]

I'm trying to use it in my current project and 1 major thing was not solved (or at least I can't seem to make it work with the current mention API) is async mentions.
How can I dynamically get mentions (like an autocomplete for a gigantic user base) if the API does not give me onSearchChange hook? Is it even worth it to hack the onChange to capture everything and I make a custom parser to arbitrarily decide what is a custom mention?
Is there a way to extend the current "strategy" to get suggestions?

[harel]

I opened this: https://github.com/jpuri/react-draft-wysiwyg/issues/616
in feb 2018.... I tried to implement it myself following my suggestion but didn't have the time to invest. I might have another stab at it at some point

[MitchEff]

I'm considering this package dead, and I honestly would urge you to use
something like Quill instead. I was blown away how much easier and more
extensible it was. Replaced this entirely in about half an hour.

On Thu, 6 Jun 2019, 11:34 pm Harel Malka, [e-mail] wrote:

I opened this: #616
https://github.com/jpuri/react-draft-wysiwyg/issues/616
in feb 2018.... I tried to implement it myself following my suggestion but
didn't have the time to invest. I might have another stab at it at some
point

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[SamuelVera]

What you see is what you dont get

[vinceprofeta]

@jpuri seems like this is a simple change

https://github.com/jpuri/react-draft-wysiwyg/blob/9915eaaa899a6720a1e8560f72f415a050bce467/src/decorators/Mention/Suggestion/index.js#L64