React SEO Component

Use it for adding canonical links, metadata and OpenGraph information to your React projects!

Use it!

Install it from npm!

yarn add react-seo-component
# peer dependency of react helmet 
yarn add react-helmet

If you are using it with Gatsby you will also need to install the Gatsby plugin:

yarn add react-seo-component
yarn add react-helmet
yarn add gatsby-plugin-react-helmet
# or in one command 
yarn add react-seo-component react-helmet gatsby-plugin-react-helmet

This will create the meta tags at build time.

Examples:

For an index page:

<SEO
  title={title}
  titleTemplate={siteName}
  titleSeparator={`-`}
  description={description || 'nothin’'}
  image={image}
  pathname={siteUrl}
  siteLanguage={siteLanguage}
  siteLocale={siteLocale}
  twitterUsername={twitterUsername}
/>

For a blog post:

<SEO
  title={title}
  titleTemplate={siteName}
  titleSeparator={`-`}
  description={description}
  image={image}
  pathname={siteUrlPlusSlug}
  siteLanguage={siteLanguage}
  siteLocale={siteLocale}
  twitterUsername={twitterUsername}
  author={authorName}
  article={true}
  publishedDate={createdDate}
  modifiedDate={updatedDate}
/>

Props

Prop	Type	Default
title	Page title	''
titleTemplate	Page Title + Site title	''
titleSeparator	Between Page Title + Site title	·
description	Page description	''
pathname	Full Page URL	''
article	article or website	website
image	Full image URL	''
siteLanguage	Content Language	en
siteLocale	Content Locale	en_gb
twitterUsername	can be empty	''
author	can not be empty	'J Doe'
datePublished	ISO date string	Date.now()
dateModified	ISO date string	Date.now()

To test locally

Use npm pack or yarn pack to create a .tgz of the project you can install locally on your project to test with.

# from here 
yarn pack
# copy to project to test 
cp react-seo-component-2.0.1.tgz ../project-to-test-with/
# ~/project-to-test-with 
yarn add file:react-seo-component-2.0.1.tgz

Thanks:

• LekoArts for the initial components detailed in his Gatsby Prismic starter.

• Leigh Halliday for the primer video on using TSDX

• Jared Palmer for TSDX

Resources

https://medium.com/recraftrelic/building-a-react-component-as-a-npm-module-18308d4ccde9

https://github.com/recraftrelic/dummy-react-npm-module/blob/master/package.json