React Discussion Board

This component creates a simple React Discussion Board. Posts include profile image, message, name, and date/time. New posts may be added and edited in Rich Text formatting.

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• React Discussion Board
  • Table of Contents
  • Installation
  • Usage
  • Props
    • posts
      • post properties
    • onSubmit

Installation

This module is distributed via [npm][npm] which is bundled with [node][node] and should be installed as one of your project's dependencies:

npm install react-discussion-board

This package also depends on react. Please make sure you have it installed as well.

Usage

import React, { useState } from 'react'

import DiscussionBoard from 'react-discussion-board'

import 'react-discussion-board/dist/index.css'

const App = () => {
  const allPosts = [
    {
      profileImage:
        'https://www.rd.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/01-shutterstock_476340928-Irina-Bg.jpg,
      name: 'Jane Doe',
      content: '<p>Hello everyone!</p><p>How are you all doing?</p><p>-Jane</>',
      date: new Date('01 Jan 2020 01:12:00 GMT')
    },
    {
      profileImage:
        'https://images.pexels.com/photos/220453/pexels-photo-220453.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=1&w=500',
      name: 'John Doe',
      content:
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      date: new Date('01 Jan 2020 09:12:00 GMT')
    }
  ]

  const [posts, setPosts] = useState(allPosts)

  const submitPost = (text) => {
    const curDate = new Date()

    setPosts([
      ...posts,
      {
        profileImage:
          'https://images.pexels.com/photos/220453/pexels-photo-220453.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&dpr=1&w=500',
        name: 'Jane Doe',
        content: text,
        date: curDate
      }
    ])
  }

  return (
    <div className='App'>
      <DiscussionBoard posts={posts} onSubmit={submitPost} />
    </div>
  )
}

export default App

DiscussionBoard is the only component exposed by this package. <DiscussionBoard posts={posts} onSubmit={onSubmit}>

Props

This is the list of props.

posts

array | defaults to []

Pass an array of posts that should be available in discussion board.

Content is sanitized before being displayed on the page as a post.

post properties

Following are the fields that may be provided for posts in the posts prop array

Field	Type	Description
profileImage	string	image url/path for profile photo
name	string	display name of post author
content	string	content string in rich text format (html string)
date	Date	post date

onSubmit

function(text: string) | required

Function that is called when a post is submitted, given the html text of the post.