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Integrate Creative Editor

In this example, we will show you how to integrate CreativeEditor SDK with Vanilla JS.

Explore a full code sample of the integration on CodeSandbox or view the code on GitHub.

Prerequisites#

Setup#

Note that, for convenience we serve all SDK assets (e.g. images, stickers, fonts etc.) from our CDN by default. For use in a production environment we recommend serving assets from your own servers.

1. Add CE.SDK to your Project#

The SDK is served entirely via CDN, so we just need to import the CE.SDK module and link the stylesheet containing the default theme settings.

If you use a bundler like Webpack, Rollup, or Parcel to build your app and want to integrate the CreativeEngine module using your regular workflows, add the @cesdk/cesdk-js npm package as a dependency to your project.

2. Create an empty Container#

We need to add an empty <div> with an id or class as container for the SDK. In this example, we set the inline style to create a <div> element that fills the whole browser window.

3. Instantiate SDK#

The last step involves the configuration and instantiation of the SDK. We need to provide the aforementioned container and optionally a license file to instantiate the SDK.

See Initialization for a more detailed description of this step.

4. Serving Webpage locally#

In order to use the Editor we need to serve the index.html. This can be achieved via npx which comes with npm.

Just execute npx serve, which will bring up a local server at http://localhost:5000.

5. Access the Engine APIs#

For programmatic access to engine specific API the editor exposes the engine. See Engine for more information about the engine capabilities and APIs.

5. Disposing the Editor#

When you are done working with the editor, consider disposing it to cleanup any pending references.

Congratulations!#

You've got CE.SDK up and running. Get to know the SDK and dive into the next steps, when you're ready: