React Link Preview

A component package which helps you render the preview data of any link

NOTE: This utilizes https://github.com/ashwamegh/link-preview-generator-server server deployed on Azure, a free web server which can run 30 minutes in a day. If you want to use it in a PRODUCTION app, I would recommend you to use your own server (You can use the Dockerfile or the Docker hub image for deploying link-preview-generator-server) and provide the custom link of the API for customDomain in the Component Props

Demo

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Props
• Contribute
• License

Install

NPM

npm install @ashwamegh/react-link-preview

Yarn

yarn add @ashwamegh/react-link-preview

Usage

With built in layout

import React from 'react'

import LinkPreview from '@ashwamegh/react-link-preview'

// If you're using built in layout, you will need to import this css
import '@ashwamegh/react-link-preview/dist/index.css'

function Example() {
  return <LinkPreview url='https://reactjs.org' />
}

export default Example

With custom layout (using renderProps)

You can provide your own component to replace the existing one using renderProps.

import React from 'react'

import LinkPreview from '@ashwamegh/react-link-preview'

function CustomComponent({ loading, preview }) {
  return loading ? (
    <h1>Loading...</h1>
  ) : (
    <div>
      <p>Domain: {preview.domain}</p>
      <p>Title: {preview.title}</p>
      <p>Description: {preview.description}</p>
      <img height='100px' width='100px' src={preview.img} alt={preview.title} />
    </div>
  )
}

function App() {
  return (
    <LinkPreview
      url='https://reactjs.org'
      customDomain='https://lpdg-server.azurewebsites.net/parse/link'
      render={CustomComponent}
    />
  )
}

export default App

Props

Property	Type	Default	Description	Required
url	string		URL to get preview data	true
onClick	function		onClick handler for the card	false
customDomain	string	https://lpdg-server.azurewebsites.net/parse/link	Custom Server API link which can parse the metadata of the page	false
render	function		function which can be called with preview data to render custom component	false
width	string	90%	Width of the card preview	false
maxWidth	string	700px	Max Width of the card preview	false
marginTop	string	18px	Margin top for the card	false
marginBottom	string	18px	Margin bottom for the card	false
marginRight	string	auto	Margin right for the card	false
marginLeft	string	auto	Margin left for the card	false

Contribute

Thanks for taking the time to contribute, please check out the src to understand how things work.

Reporting Issues

Found a problem? Want a new feature? First of all, see if your issue or idea has already been reported. If don't, just open a new clear and descriptive issue.

Submitting pull requests

Pull requests are the greatest contributions, so be sure they are focused in scope and do avoid unrelated commits.

• Fork it!
• Clone your fork: git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/react-link-preview
• Navigate to the newly cloned directory: cd react-link-preview
• Create a new branch for the new feature: git checkout -b my-new-feature
• Install the tools necessary for development: yarn
• Make your changes.
• Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
• Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
• Submit a pull request with full remarks documenting your changes

License

MIT License © Shashank Shekhar