After JSON.stringify Components have not all fields
If the property is of the same value as the default definition, it's skipped. This is controlled by avoidDefaults config option and it's highly recommended to keep it true to have small JSONs as possible.
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GrapesJS version[X] I confirm to use the latest version of GrapesJSWhat browser are you using? ChromeReproducible demo link https://jsfiddle.net/sdimitrenco/rn8u4pc0/7/Describe the bug I'm not sure it's a bug or not, but for me, behavior look strange I have a component List that includes, component ol and component li. That code for block That model for the component list That model for the ol component And the model for the li component As you can see all models include types and tag Names, and inside grapes it work correct, but if I try convert it to json, like JSON.stringify(this.grapesIns...
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If the property is of the same value as the default definition, it's skipped. This is controlled by avoidDefaults config option and it's highly recommended to keep it true to have small JSONs as possible.
This behavior is not a bug but an intentional optimization within GrapesJS, which leverages Backbone.js models. When you serialize GrapesJS components to JSON, attributes that match their default values for that specific component type are often omitted to reduce the size of the serialized data. Ro...
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