How can I create grapesjs service for generating HTML from stored components?
I close it as a duplicate of https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/issues/3399
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Hello. Is there possibility to create grapesjs instance, without generating whole editor? I had created custom components with async data and I need to create backend service in Node, which generates HTML output from stored components, populated with data from APIs.
Now I am getting error:
ReferenceError: window is not defined
Thank you.
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I close it as a duplicate of https://github.com/artf/grapesjs/issues/3399
Thanks for reporting this, @milan-holes. The error error:ReferenceError: window is not defined occurs when Components attempts to access properties before the component lifecycle is fully initialized. This is a common race condition in GrapesJS. Immediate workaround: If you control the code, wrap c...
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