sharethis-angular

ShareThis Share Buttons for Angular apps/sites. Empower your online audience to share and amplify your content on social networks such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Linkedin, Twitter and many more. Includes four types of share buttons - Inline Share Buttons, Sticky Share Buttons, Inline Follow Buttons and Inline Reaction Buttons.

Demo

View the live demo here

Requirement

Angular 14.1.0 or higher

Installation

npm

npm install sharethis-angular

Add SharethisAngularModule module

In module file, for example: /<project-name>/src/app/app.module.ts

import { SharethisAngularModule } from 'sharethis-angular';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    AppComponent
  ],
  imports: [
    BrowserModule,
    AppRoutingModule,
    SharethisAngularModule
  ],
  providers: [],
  bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule { }

Customize component configuration

In component file, for example: <project-name>/src/app/app.component.ts

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { InlineShareButtonsConfig } from 'sharethis-angular';

const inlineShareButtonsConfig:InlineShareButtonsConfig = {
  alignment: 'center', // alignment of buttons (left, center, right)
  color: 'social', // set the color of buttons (social, white)
  enabled: true, // show/hide buttons (true, false)
  font_size: 16, // font size for the buttons
  labels: 'cta', // button labels (cta, counts, null)
  language: 'en', // which language to use (see LANGUAGES)
  networks: [
  // which networks to include (see SHARING NETWORKS)
  'whatsapp',
  'linkedin',
  'messenger',
  'facebook',
  'twitter',
  ],
  padding: 12, // padding within buttons (INTEGER)
  radius: 4, // the corner radius on each button (INTEGER)
  show_total: true,
  size: 40, // the size of each button (INTEGER)
};

@Component({
  selector: 'app-root',
  templateUrl: './app.component.html',
  styleUrls: ['./app.component.css']
})
export class AppComponent {
  title = 'sharethis-angular-test';
  inlineShareButtonsConfig = inlineShareButtonsConfig;
}

Add component to HTML

In HTML file, for exampe: <project-name>/src/app/app.component.html

<st-inline-share-buttons [config]="inlineShareButtonsConfig"></st-inline-share-buttons>

You can also use 3 other types of share buttons:

<st-inline-follow-buttons [config]="inlineFollowButtonsConfig"></st-inline-follow-buttons>
<st-inline-reaction-buttons [config]="inlineReactionButtonsConfig"></st-inline-reaction-buttons>
<st-sticky-share-buttons [config]="stickyShareButtonsConfig"></st-sticky-share-buttons>

Share Button Configurations

Inline Share Buttons

import { InlineShareButtonsConfig } from 'sharethis-angular';

const inlineShareButtonsConfig:InlineShareButtonsConfig = {
  alignment: 'center', // alignment of buttons (left, center, right)
  color: 'social', // set the color of buttons (social, white)
  enabled: true, // show/hide buttons (true, false)
  font_size: 16, // font size for the buttons
  labels: 'cta', // button labels (cta, counts, null)
  language: 'en', // which language to use (see LANGUAGES)
  networks: [
  // which networks to include (see SHARING NETWORKS)
  'whatsapp',
  'linkedin',
  'messenger',
  'facebook',
  'twitter',
  ],
  padding: 12, // padding within buttons (INTEGER)
  radius: 4, // the corner radius on each button (INTEGER)
  show_total: true,
  size: 40, // the size of each button (INTEGER)
  // OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
  url: 'https://www.sharethis.com', // (defaults to current url)
  image: 'https://bit.ly/2CMhCMC', // (defaults to og:image or twitter:image)
  description: 'custom text', // (defaults to og:description or twitter:description)
  title: 'custom title', // (defaults to og:title or twitter:title)
  message: 'custom email text', // (only for email sharing)
  subject: 'custom email subject', // (only for email sharing)
  username: 'custom twitter handle', // (only for twitter sharing)
};

Sticky Share Buttons

import { StickyShareButtonsConfig } from 'sharethis-angular';

const stickyShareButtonsConfig: StickyShareButtonsConfig={
  alignment: 'left', // alignment of buttons (left, right)
  color: 'social', // set the color of buttons (social, white)
  enabled: true, // show/hide buttons (true, false)
  font_size: 16, // font size for the buttons
  hide_desktop: false, // hide buttons on desktop (true, false)
  labels: 'counts', // button labels (cta, counts, null)
  language: 'en', // which language to use (see LANGUAGES)
  min_count: 0, // hide react counts less than min_count (INTEGER)
  networks: [ // which networks to include (see SHARING NETWORKS)
  'linkedin',
  'facebook',
  'twitter',
  'pinterest',
  'email'
  ],
  padding: 12, // padding within buttons (INTEGER)
  radius: 4, // the corner radius on each button (INTEGER)
  show_total: true, // show/hide the total share count (true, false)
  show_mobile: true, // show/hide the buttons on mobile (true, false)
  show_toggle: true, // show/hide the toggle buttons (true, false)
  size: 48, // the size of each button (INTEGER)
  top: 160, // offset in pixels from the top of the page
  // OPTIONAL PARAMETERS
  url: 'https://www.sharethis.com', // (defaults to current url)
  image: 'https://bit.ly/2CMhCMC', // (defaults to og:image or twitter:image)
  description: 'custom text', // (defaults to og:description or twitter:description)
  title: 'custom title', // (defaults to og:title or twitter:title)
  message: 'custom email text', // (only for email sharing)
  subject: 'custom email subject', // (only for email sharing)
  username: 'custom twitter handle' // (only for twitter sharing)
};

Inline Follow Buttons

import { InlineFollowButtonsConfig } from 'sharethis-angular';

const inlineFollowButtonsConfig: InlineFollowButtonsConfig = {
  action: 'Follow us:', // call to action (STRING)
  action_enabled: true, // show/hide call to action (true, false)
  action_pos: 'bottom', // position of call to action (left, top, right)
  alignment: 'center', // alignment of buttons (left, center, right)
  color: 'white', // set the color of buttons (social, white)
  enabled: true, // show/hide buttons (true, false)
  networks: [ // which networks to include (see FOLLOW NETWORKS)
  'twitter',
  'facebook',
  'instagram',
  'youtube'
  ],
  padding: 8, // padding within buttons (INTEGER)
  profiles: { // social profile links for buttons
  twitter: 'sharethis',
  facebook: 'sharethis',
  instagram: 'sharethis',
  youtube: '/channel/UCbM93niCmdc2RD9RZbLMP6A?view_as=subscriber'
  },
  radius: 9, // the corner radius on each button (INTEGER)
  size: 32, // the size of each button (INTEGER)
  spacing: 8 // the spacing between buttons (INTEGER)
};

Inline Reaction Buttons

import { InlineReactionButtonsConfig } from 'sharethis-angular';

const inlineReactionButtonsConfig: InlineReactionButtonsConfig = {
  alignment: 'center', // alignment of buttons (left, center, right)
  enabled: true, // show/hide buttons (true, false)
  language: 'en', // which language to use (see LANGUAGES)
  min_count: 0, // hide react counts less than min_count (INTEGER)
  padding: 12, // padding within buttons (INTEGER)
  reactions: [ // which reactions to include (see REACTIONS)
  'slight_smile',
  'heart_eyes',
  'laughing',
  'astonished',
  'sob',
  'rage'
  ],
  size: 48, // the size of each button (INTEGER)
};

License

MIT License

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