React.js component for rendering tweets as they are presented on Twitter.com. Currently themed after the Desktop experience with the idea of a fixed width timeline. See the example app for an example of a tweet stream.
Motivation
react-tweet
should make it easier to boostrap Twitter based React.js apps. This way we can focus
on interesting ways to use and manipulate the API without the pains of rendering. Styles, assets, and HTML have
been lifted from twitter.com and twitter dev docs.
react-tweet
uses only inline styles and while written in ES6, compiles to plain JS meant to be absorbed by any React project.
react-tweet
can be used a 'dumb' component for simply rendering data or could be a starting point for a more ambitious Tweet component.
Dependencies
To get full video functionality, include videojs in your app. You can use the http://vjs.zencdn.net/5-unsafe/video.js
as a CDN path.
If you dont include videojs it should fall back to native HTML5 video.
Usage
Pass in tweet objects returned from twitter API Requests as a 'data' prop. Designed for use with search & home_timeline methods, although any object can be used as long as it has the following properties:
import React from 'react'
import Tweet from 'react-tweet'
const tweetData = {
id_str: 'XXX',
user: {
name: 'XXX',
screen_name: 'XXX',
profile_image_url: 'XXX'
},
text: 'XXX',
created_at: 'XXX',
favorite_count: 'XXX',
retweet_count: 'XXX',
entities: {
media: [],
urls: [],
user_mentions: [],
hashtags: [],
symbols: []
}
}
class MyTweetComponent extends React.Component {
render () {
// use linkProps if you want to pass attributes to all links
const linkProps = {target: '_blank', rel: 'noreferrer'}
return (
<Tweet data={tweetData} linkProps={linkProps} />
)
}
}
Demo
- live: live demo
- local: run
npm start
& visitlocalhost:8080
Supported
- Desktop Twitter.com styles
- Retweets
- Quote tweets
- Auto-linking via twitter-text
- Twitter Emoji support via twemoji
- Modal mode for images
- Isomorphic Rendering
TODO:
- Mobile style support
Better video support, seems Twitter uses custom playerMimick video controls of Twitter.com- Add slideshow controls in Modal mode
- Refactor how images get cropped, kind of a mess rn
- Support for Tweet threads
- Tests