How to set documents initial value from plugin

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Hello, I’m quite new and I’m making ProseMirror plugins.

When the plug-in is initialized, I want to change the initial value of the document and inital value will be fetched from server.

After some research I found that many people used the view.updateState function to do same thing. But I want to do it within the Plugin.state.init function. Is there a good way?

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I don’t think you can change editorState from plugin.state.init since you only have access to editorState in that function, and can’t directly mutate that.

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Thanks for your response. If so, is there any other way that the plugin can set the initial value of the document?

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You would have to use the view field of a plugin. Although I feel like for your use case, why not reset the editor entirely?

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I thought I could do within plugin and I think it’s a right way to do it like you said. Thank you!

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Check out this thread Load document from JSON - #6 by raphaelmerx

I mean I know it’s 7 months later… but hope it helps somebody else along the road