Gatsby Kontent Components
The package containing React components useful when processing Kontent data to the site.
To see the progress of the Gatsby v4 supported packages - check out this pull request.
Install
npm install @kentico/gatsby-kontent-components gatsby-plugin-image
Also, add gatsby-plugin-image
to plugins
array in gatsby-config.js
.
Typescript
Components exports their typescript definitions so that you know what data format you need to provide via props and what data format expect from function prop callback arguments.
Image element component
Images from Kontent can be displayed using the ImageElement
component. This wraps the GatsbyImage
component from gatsby-plugin-image, so ensure that you also install that plugin. This component will give the best experience for your users, as it includes responsive srcset, blur-up, lazy loading and many other performance optimizations. Automatic format optimization is always enabled. In many cases it can improve Lighthouse scores by 10-20 points.
The component takes all the GatsbyImage
props, as well as the following properties. All are optional except image
:
-
image
: theimage
object. This should includeurl
,width
andheight
. -
layout
: see thegatsby-plugin-image
docs -
width
/height
: see thegatsby-plugin-image
docs -
aspectRatio
: see thegatsby-plugin-image
docs -
backgroundColor
: displayed as a placeholder while the image loads -
options: ImageOptions
: an object containing options passed to the Kontent Image Transformation API. Supported options:fit
,quality
,lossless
.interface ImageOptions { fit?: 'crop' | 'clip' | 'scale'; quality?: number; lossless?: boolean; }
Properties of the image object (e.g. width
and height
) are reflected in Kontent's image API query.
Props of the ImageElement
component (e.g. width
and height
) are reflected in the rendered DOM.
If the optional props of ImageElement
are omitted, the properties of the image object are applied.
You can find a showcase in the author.js on the development site.
import React from 'react';
import { ImageElement } from '@kentico/gatsby-kontent-components';
import { graphql } from 'gatsby';
export default Page = ({ data }) => {
const avatar = data.author.elements.avatar_image.value[0];
return (
<ImageElement
image={avatar}
width={800}
height={200}
backgroundColor="#bbbbbb"
alt={avatar.description}
/>
);
};
export const query = graphql`
{
author: kontentItemAuthor {
elements {
avatar_image {
value {
url
description
}
}
}
}
}
`;
getGatsbyImageData
In case you need image data for GatsbyImage component, you can use an exported function getGatsbyImageData
.
Showcase can be found in article.js in the development site.
const imageData = getGatsbyImageData({
image: avatar,
width: 800,
height: 200,
backgroundColor:"#bbbbbb"
})
Rich text element component
Rich text elements from Kontent could be resolved to React components using "html-react-parser" as described in this article.
This package should make the usage easier. Basically by loading the rich text data and use these components to provide this data and resolution functions.
import {
RichTextElement,
ImageElement,
} from '@kentico/gatsby-kontent-components';
// ...
<RichTextElement
value={richTextElement.value}
images={richTextElement.images}
links={richTextElement.links}
linkedItems={richTextElement.modular_content}
resolveImage={image => {
return (
<ImageElement
image={image}
alt={image.description ? image.description : image.name}
width={200}
/>
);
}}
resolveLink={(link, domNode) => {
const parentItemType = contextData.type; // It is possible to use external data for resolution
return (
<Link to={`/${link.type}/partner/${parentItemType}/${link.url_slug}`}>
{domNode.children[0].data}
</Link>
);
}}
resolveLinkedItem={(linkedItem, domNode) => {
const isComponent = domNode.attribs['data-rel'] === 'component';
const isLinkedItem = domNode.attribs['data-rel'] === 'link';
return (
<>
{isComponent && <h1>Component</h1>}
{isLinkedItem && <h1>Linked item</h1>}
<pre>{JSON.stringify(linkedItem, undefined, 2)}</pre>
</>
);
}}
resolveDomNode={(domNode, domToReact) => {
if (domNode.name === 'table') {
// For options - check https://www.npmjs.com/package/html-react-parser#options
return <div className="table-responsive">{domToReact([domNode])}</div>;
}
}}
/>;
Resolution scope
If you don't need to resolve anything, you could just provide value
property.
Images
If you want to resolve images pass images
and resolveImage
properties.
-
images
have to contain at leastimage_id
property -
resolveImage
has one parameterimage
usually containing one record fromimages
array - when resolving images in Rich text element using Image element component,
image
object must follow data contract defined in Image element component section. Moreover, for correct resolution, the additionalimage_id
identifier of the image is mandatory, as well.
Links to content items
If you want to resolve links to other content items pass links
and resolveLink
properties.
All other links (web URL, email, asset link) are not resolved. If you could use this functionality, please submit a feature request.
-
links
have to contain at leastlink_id
property -
resolveLink
has two parameterlink
basically containing one record fromlinks
array anddomNode
dome link element that could be used for i.e. getting the inner text of the current linkdomNode.children[0].data
.
Content components and Linked content items
If you want to resolve images pass linkedItems
and resolveLinkedItem
properties.
-
linkedItems
have to contain at leastsystem.codename
property -
resolveLinkedItem
has one parameterlinkedItem
basically containing one record fromlinkedItems
array
Custom resolution for any other dom node
The general resolution method resolveDomNode
is called for every DOM node, except for ones that are resolved specifically (described above). In the example above, all table elements will be wrapped with the div
element. You could also return just a JSX if you want to replace the domNode
completely.
If you want to resolve elements via resolveDomNode
, you get the following parameters:
-
domNode
- DOM node fromhtml-react-parser
-
domToReact
- method fromhtml-react-parser
to be able to extend the actualdomNode
as on the example