More Dynamic Testimony Content

[alexjball]

Overview

This ticket could be split into several frontend and backend components, and would aim to build out the testimony entry action.

• [ ] Be able to have some testimony text styles like bullet points, bolded text, etc
• [ ] Be able to add images to testimony
• [ ] Be able to upload video / audio

Scope

• [ ] Need to assess what can currently be done, and then create a ticket detailing what we'd like implemented, and then close this (#754) ticket

Possible approaches

• [ ] Could implement rich text editor using React
• • [ ] Will need to link or replace current text entry component

[mvictor55]

Relevant to https://app.zenhub.com/workspaces/maple-design-638ea374749bf840589395c0/issues/gh/codeforboston/maple/715

[alexjball]

Currently:

• Users edit testimony in a plain text editor.
• We store testimony in the exact plain text that the user entered
• We display testimony using a markdown renderer, which converts the plain text to HTML, converting some markdown styling (bold, italics) to HTML (formatter)

We can swap out the plain text editor with an open source markdown editor. Some of them offer WYSIWYG modes. We should still store the testimony as plain, unrendered markdown text. For any new formatting features we want to support, we need to update the formatter. Or we could just allow all markdown features in the formatter, but then we would need to sanitize the testimony content on the server before posting.

[saltair3]

@alexjball Thank you for the context! This is helpful! :)