react-textarea-autocomplete 📝

Enhanced textarea to achieve autocomplete functionality.

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This package provides React Component to achieve GitHub's like functionality in comments regarding the textarea autocomplete. It can be used for example for emoji autocomplete or for @mentions. The render function (for displaying text enhanced by this textarea) is beyond the scope of this package and it should be solved separately.

Installation

This module is distributed via npm and should be installed as one of your project's dependencies:

yarn add @webscopeio/react-textarea-autocomplete

This package also depends on react and prop-types. Please make sure you have those installed as well.

Props

Note: Every other props than the mentioned below will be propagated to textarea itself

Props	Default	Type	Description
loadingComponent	required	React Component	Gets data props which is already fetched (and displayed) suggestion
trigger	required	Object (Trigger type)	Define triggers and their corresponding behavior
minChar	optional	Number (= 1)	Number of characters that user should type for trigger a suggestion
style	optional	Style Object	Style's of textarea
containerStyle	optional	Style Object	Style's of textarea's container

Trigger type

{
    [triggerChar: string]: {
        ?output: (item: Object | string, trigger?: string) => string,
        dataProvider: (token: string) => Promise<Array<Object | string>> | Array<Object | string>,
        component: ReactClass<*>,
    },
}

• dataProvider is called after each keystroke to get data what the suggestion list should display (array or promise resolving array)

• component is the component for render the item in suggestion list. It has selected and entity props provided by React Textarea Autocomplete

• output (Optional for string based item. If the item is an object this method is required) This function defines text which will be placed into textarea after the user makes a selection.

  Default behavior for string based item is string: <TRIGGER><ITEM><TRIGGER>). This method should always return a unique string.

Example of usage

import React, { Component } from "react";
import ReactTextareaAutocomplete from "@webscopeio/react-textarea-autocomplete";
import emoji from "@jukben/emoji-search";

import logo from "./logo.svg";
import "./App.css";
import "@webscopeio/react-textarea-autocomplete/dist/default-style.css";

const Item = ({ entity: { name, char } }) => <div>{`${name}: ${char}`}</div>;
const Loading = ({ data }) => <div>Loading</div>;

class App extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <div className="App-header">
          <img src={logo} className="App-logo" alt="logo" />
          <h2>Welcome to React</h2>
        </div>

        <ReactTextareaAutocomplete
          className="my-textarea"
          loadingComponent={Loading}
          style={{
            fontSize: "18px",
            lineHeight: "20px",
            padding: 5
          }}
          containerStyle={{
            marginTop: 20,
            width: 400,
            height: 100,
            margin: "20px auto"
          }}
          minChar={0}
          trigger={{
            ":": {
              dataProvider: token => {
                return emoji(token)
                  .slice(0, 10)
                  .map(({ name, char }) => ({ name, char }));
              },
              component: Item,
              output: (item, trigger) => item.char
            }
          }}
        />
      </div>
    );
  }
}

export default App;

Development

Run yarn to fetch dependencies.

Run yarn dev for bundling.

In the folder run yarn link and then in your project folder yarn link react-textarea-autocomplete to link together.

Your PR's are welcomed! ❤️

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Jakub Beneš 💻 📖	Andrey Taktaev 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!

License

MIT