React Losant Dashboard Block

A component for embedding Losant dashboard blocks in your React.js projects.

Demo & Examples

Live demo: losant.github.io/react-losant-dashboard-block

The demo shows the block in action displaying the moisture level of the Losant office plants, as found on this dashboard.

To build the examples locally, run:

npm install
npm start

Then open localhost:8000 in a browser.

Installation

The easiest way to use the component is to install it from NPM and include it in your own React build process (using Browserify, Webpack, etc).

You can also use the standalone build by including dist/react-losant-dashboard-block.js in your page. If you use this, make sure you have already included React, and it is available as a global variable.

npm install react-losant-dashboard-block --save

Usage

To use the component, simply import it into your React app and then include the tag in your render function. Your dashboard must be public in order to use this component.

import LosantDashboardBlock 'react-losant-dashboard-block';

<LosantDashboardBlock
  dashboardId={dashboardId}
  blockId={blockId}
  theme={theme}
  width={width}
  height={height}
  style={style}
/>

Props

Name	Required?	Description	Default
dashboardId	Y	String. The ID of the dashboard from which the block is being pulled.
blockId	Y	String. The ID of the block. The block MUST come from the dashboard stipulated in the dashboardId.
width		String. The width of the iframe in which the block is rendered. Must be in CSS units (e.g. 400px or 100%).	100%
height		String. The height of the iframe in which the block is rendered. Must be in CSS units (e.g. 400px or 100%).	240px
theme		String. Must be either light or dark. Additional themes may be supported at a later time.	light
style		Object. CSS styles that will be applied to the iframe tag.
ctx		Object. Context object for populating variables used throughout the dashboard.

Dashboard and Block IDs

Your dashboard must be public in order to use this component. The easiest way to find your dashboardId and blockId is to click the "Embed" icon in the header of your block. This will set your browser's URL to a format like https://app.losant.com/#/dashboards/:dashboardId?embed=:blockId.

So, given the URL https://app.losant.com/#/dashboards/56f0918f2d198e01002b05d4?embed=SyPLQVEe, the dashboardId would be 56f0918f2d198e01002b05d4 and the blockId would be SyPLQVEe.

Development (src, lib and the build process)

NOTE: The source code for the component is in src. A transpiled CommonJS version (generated with Babel) is available in lib for use with node.js, browserify and webpack. A UMD bundle is also built to dist, which can be included without the need for any build system.

To build, watch and serve the examples (which will also watch the component source), run npm start. If you just want to watch changes to src and rebuild lib, run npm run watch (this is useful if you are working with npm link).

License

MIT licensed. Copyright (c) 2017 Losant IoT.