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Version: 1.0.0

Using React Component

Engagespot React component helps you to build a notification feed for your React.js app. This library includes React components to build a Notification Inbox component in your app.

Notification Inbox Preview

Something like this.

Quick Setup

You can add a notification feed to your React app in minutes with the pre-built UI Components and APIs powered by Engagespot.

npm i @engagespot/react-component

Then render Engagespot component where you want the bell icon to appear.

import { Engagespot } from '@engagespot/react-component';

<Engagespot apiKey="ENGAGESPOT_API_KEY" userId="youruser@example.com" />;

You can find your ENGAGESPOT_API_KEY from your Engagespot dashboard. As explained in the basic concepts chapter, userId should be any value to uniquely identify your app's users. It can be their email id, or UUID or a numerical id from your database.

Props

The Engagespot notification react component can be customized to suit your application's look and feel. The Engagespot component accepts the following props (EngagespotProps interface).

PropertyDescriptionType
apiKeyYour ENGAGESPOT_API_KEY, which you can find in your Engagespot dashboard.string
userIdUnique id to identify your usersstring
hideJumpToTopHides the "Jump to top" buttonboolean
renderNotificationIconCustom notification bell iconComponent
feedItemPlaceholderImageURL of Icon to be displayed if notification image is emptystring
renderEmptyPlaceholderImageComponent to show when notification feed is emptyComponent
headerTextText that will be shown on Notification feed titlestring
themeObject with multiple properties to customize the look and feel of notification feed.ThemeOverrides

EngagespotProps interface

interface EngagespotProps {
theme?: ThemeOverrides;
panelOpenByDefault?: boolean;
panelOnly?: boolean;
feedItemPlaceholderImage?: string;
hideNotificationAvatar?: boolean;
hideJumpToTop?: boolean;
headerText?: string;
renderFooterContent?: customRenderFn;
renderNotificationIcon?: customRenderFn;
renderEmptyPlaceholderImage?: customRenderFn;
renderNotificationContent?: customRenderFn<customNotificationContentType>;
renderNotificationBody?: customRenderFn<customNotificationContentType>;
onFeedItemClick?: (evt, payload: ClickableNotificationPayload) => void;
headerDropdownItems?: DropdownMenuProps['items'];
}

Available Themeing Options

The theme parameter is of ThemeOverrides interface. You can customize pretty much every element of your notification center.

interface ThemeOverrides = {

colors: {
brandingPrimary: string;
colorPrimary: string;
colorSecondary: string;
};
panel: {
boxShadow: string;
width: string;
height: string;
borderBottomLeftRadius: string;
borderBottomRightRadius: string;
borderTopLeftRadius: string;
borderTopRightRadius: string;
arrowSize: string;
arrowInset: string;
};
feed: {
background: string;
placeholderTextColor: string;
height: string;
placeholderTextSize: string;
placeholderMargin: string;
placeholderFontWeight: string;
};
feedItem: {
border: string;
background: string;
notificationDot: string;
hoverBackground: string;
headerColor: string;
descriptionColor: string;
dateColor: string;
placeHolderBackground: string;
placeHolderGradient: string;
height: string;
padding: string;
placeholderTextSize: string;
notificationDotSize: string;
imageSize: string;
imageRadius: string;
hoverTransition: string;
textContentPadding: string;
textContentMargin: string;
headerFontWeight: string;
headerSize: string;
headerPadding: string;
descriptionSize: string;
descriptionPadding: string;
dateSize: string;
menuMargin: string;
};
notificationButton: {
background: string;
hoverBackground: string;
iconFill: string;
floatingButtonShadow: string;
iconSize: string;
outline: string;
margin: string;
padding: string;
borderWidth: string;
normalButtonRadius: string;
floatingButtonRadius: string;
transition: string;
};
unreadBadgeCount: {
background: string;
color: string;
borderRadius: string;
fontSize: string;
inset: string;
size: string;
};
dropdown: {
iconFill: string;
background: string;
hoverBackground: string;
menuBackground: string;
menuShadow: string;
menuItemTextColor: string;
menuItemHoverBackground: string;
iconWidth: string;
iconHeight: string;
margin: string;
padding: string;
borderWidth: string;
outline: string;
transition: string;
menuBorderRadius: string;
menuItemPadding: string;
};
jumpToTop: {
background: string;
iconFill: string;
shadow: string;
iconSize: string;
inset: string;
borderRadius: string;
padding: string;
margin: string;
transition: string;
};
header: {
fontColor: string;
closeButtonBackground: string;
fontSize: string;
fontWeight: string;
height: string;
padding: string;
closeButtonOutline: string;
closeButtonPadding: string;
closeButtonFontSize: string;
closeButtonMargin: string;
};
footer: {
background: string;
fontColor: string;
preferenceButtonColor: string;
border: string;
preferenceButtonHoverBackground: string;
fontWeight: string;
height: string;
padding: string;
fontSize: string;
linkMargin: string;
linkSize: string;
preferenceButtonMargin: string;
preferenceButtonSize: string;
preferenceButtonPadding: string;
preferenceButtonHoverTransition: string;
linkRadius: string;
};
preference: {
fontColor: string;
background: string;
height: string;
fontWeight: string;
padding: string;
};
preferenceModal: {
overlayBackground: string;
headingColor: string;
background: string;
closeButtonColor: string;
textPrimaryColor: string;
textSecondaryColor: string;
buttonPrimaryColor: string;
buttonPrimaryBackgroundColor: string;
buttonPrimaryHoverBackgroundColor: string;
buttonSecondaryColor: string;
buttonSecondaryBackgroundColor: string;
buttonSecondaryHoverBackgroundColor: string;
overlayOpacity: string;
height: string;
backdropFilter: string;
borderRadius: string;
padding: string;
textAlign: string;
headerMargin: string;
headerFontSize: string;
closeButtonSize: string;
textPrimaryMargin: string;
textPrimaryFontSize: string;
textSecondaryMargin: string;
textSecondaryFontSize: string;
primaryButtonFontWeight: string;
primaryButtonPadding: string;
primaryButtonBorderRadius: string;
primaryButtonMargin: string;
primaryButtonTransition: string;
}
}

For example, if you want to change the primary colors of your notification feed,

import {Engagespot} from '@engagespot/react-component';

const theme = {
colors: {
colorPrimary: "#0971f1";
}
}

<Engagespot
apiKey = "ENGAGESPOT_API_KEY"
userId = "youruser@example.com"
theme = {theme}
/>
tip

You can check out examples in Codesandbox to learn how to customize different elements of the notification inbox component.

Extending Components

Engagespot React library allows you to customize the pre-built UI components to match your needs and requirements. Let's look at few customization options available.

Rendering a custom notification item

A notification item is an individual notification component in the notification center. You can completely customize it using the renderNotificationBody property which accepts a call back function with the notification item. The function should return a custom React component which will be rendered instead of the default notification item component.

For example, you can render a custom notification item like the one below -

Sample code for rendering a custom notification item using the renderNotificationBody prop is shown below.

<Engagespot
apiKey="tcyj57u29ferlgqt58qcl"
userId="user@codesanbox.io"
feedItemPlaceholderImage="https://cdn.iconscout.com/icon/premium/png-256-thumb/notification-165-723675.png"
theme={theme}
renderNotificationBody={(notification) => {
if (notification.data?.type === "invoice") {
return (
<>
<h5
style={{
fontSize: "14px",
padding: "0px",
color: "#4f4b4b",
marginBottom: "2px",
fontWeight: "normal",
fontSize: "14px"
}}
dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: notification.heading }}
></h5>

<div>
<div style={{ width: "15%", float: "left" }}>
<img
style={{
marginLeft: "-10px",
width: "80%",
borderRadius: "5px",
paddingTop: "8px"
}}
src={notification.data.attachmentIcon}
alt="icon"
/>
</div>
<div
style={{
width: "50%",
float: "left",
marginLeft: "-20px",

paddingTop: "15px",
fontSize: "13px"
}}
>
<a
style={{ textDecoration: "none", color: "#3f62be" }}
href={notification.data.downloadUrl}
>
{notification.data.filename}
</a>
</div>
<div
class="actionItems"
style={{
width: "25%",
float: "right",
paddingTop: "10px",
fontSize: "14px"
}}
>
<a
href="#"
style={{
width: "50px",
borderRadius: "5px",
display: "block",
backgroundColor: "#3f62be",
color: "#fff",
textDecoration: "none",
padding: "8px 10px",
fontSize: "12px",
marginBottom: "5px"
}}
>
Pay Now
</a>
</div>
</div>

<div>
<p style={{ fontSize: "0.7rem", color: "rgb(136, 136, 136)" }}>
2m ago . Billing
</p>
</div>
</>
);
}
}}
/>