Convert nodes into HTML format

[charklewis]

This might be a naive question, is there a way to convert an editors state into HTML elements programmatically? I am thinking something like what slateJS has - https://docs.slatejs.org/concepts/10-serializing#html. I can see this being a potential issue with custom decorator nodes.

I have tried editorState.read(() => $getRoot().exportDOM(editor)) but either see nothing returned, or createDOM: base method not extended depending on where I call it.

My user case for this is rendering the content in the database (which has been saved as JSON.stringify(editorState.toJSON())) and rendering it as a read only component (somewhere else in the app that has nothing to do with lexical or editing the content).

I have achieved this at the moment by rendering a "Preview" version of my LexicalComposer, and wondering if I can do this by just rendering HTML.

[zurfyx]

Not really an answer but it's a work in progress -> #1834

The fundamentals exists (as private functions) inside @lexical/clipboard but they have to structured in a proper way so that we can offer an ergonomic API that beyond copy-paste