react-easy-seo
a npm package that provides a creative solution for react seo without ssr or preload relies on react-router-dom and react-helmet
Installation
npm install -g react-easy-seo
Setup
1- create a sitemetadata.json in project root/src folder
2- add "postbuild":"react-easy-seo" in the scripts section in your package.json .
"scripts":{
.....
"postbuild":"react-easy-seo"
}.
3-Add ReactHelmet to App.js
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install react-helmet and react-router-dom
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Use the sitemetada.json as a source for dynamic metadata as well
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import useLocation
import {useLocation} from 'react-router-dom'
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get location and make sure it has '/' at the end
`var currentLocation = location.pathname
if (currentLocation[currentLocation.length -1 ] !== "/"){ currentLocation = currentLocation.concat("/") }`
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add this in your Component
<Helmet> <meta name='title' content={siteMetadata[currentLocation]['title'] }/> <meta name="description" content={siteMetadata[currentLocation]['description']}/> <title> {siteMetadata[currentLocation]['title']}</title> </Helmet>
4-run your react build normally and the output will be in './output'
How it Works
react-easy-seo transforms your react single page application to the traditional html folder structure using the routes provided in the sitemap.json file you make.
the json is structured as follows:
key value route {metadataname : metadatacontent}
example:{"/":{"title":"react-easy-seo","description":"react-easy-seo is the best way to handle react seo"}}
which is converted to =>
"<meta name="title" content="react-easy-seo"></meta>" "<meta name="description" content="react-easy-seo is the best way to handle react seo"></meta>" "<title>react-easy-seo</title>"
so for each route you can have as many metadata as you want. another cool feature is having an article metadataname in the route object
{"/":{"article":"react-easy-seo is the best way to handle react seo"}}
this is converted to =>
<p>react-easy-seo is the best way to handle react seo</p>
and is added to the root div so its replaced as soon as your app loads but can really help with seo.