React Cheers

A zero-dependency, extensible notification system built with the React 16.3 Context API.

Installation

1. npm install --save react-cheers

2. Install Provider & Composer component as early as possible.

import { Provider, Composer } from 'react-cheers';
 
const App = (
  <Fragment>
    <Provider>
      <MyApplication />
      <Composer />
    </Provider>
  </Fragment>
);
 
reactDom.render(<App>);

1. Access the notifications state & actions from within any component in your React tree using either:

• Option 1: Use the withNotifications HoC to automatically pass all context props to your component.

import { withNotifications } from 'react-cheers'
 
const MyComponent = ({
  notifications<Array>,
  expire<Function>
  dispatch<Function>
  }) => (
    <button onClick={dispatch(notification<Notification>)}>Send!</button>
  );
 
export default withNotifications(MyComponent);

• Option 2: Access the Context directly to select specific props. React Context uses "render props" to emit state.

import { Context as NotificationContext } from 'react-cheers'
 
const MyComponent = () => (
  <NotificationContext>
    {({
        notifications<Array>,
        expire<Function>
        dispatch<Function>
    }) => (
      <button onClick={dispatch(notification<Notification>)}>Send!</button>
    )}
  </NotificationContext>
);
 
export default MyComponent;

Usage

Notification

A notification object is made up of the following parameters.

• kind : enum('notification', 'success', 'error', 'warning') - Denotes the kind of notification, primarily used for styling
• message : string - The message contents
• id (optional) : number | string - Optionally specify an ID. If null, falls back to dateTime. (NOTE: This library prevents dispatching notifications with duplicate Ids)
• expires (optional) : number - The time in ms until notification is expired. If null, notification will not auto-dismiss.

Props

This library provides three primary mechanisms for interacting with notifications.

• notifications : Array<Notification> - The array of current notifications
• dispatch(Notification) : Function - The action to create/dispatch a new notification
• expire(Id) : Function - the action to expire/dismiss/destroy a notification

Configuration Options

• defaultExpires can specify a default expires time for all notifications
• defaultKind can specify a default "kind"

<Provider defaultExpires={8000} defaultKind={'error'}>

Contributing

WIP

Tests

WIP