react-anaconda 🐍

Conditionally wrap react components and implicitly share props amongst children.

• react-anaconda
  • Rationale
  • Installation
  • Examples
  • API
  • Development

Rationale

Sometimes, you need to conditionally wrap a react component. This can be useful for tooltips, coachmarks and links/anchor tags, as well as for higher order component or render prop patterns. When we need to wrap a react component conditionally we usually do something like the following inside our render method:

const child = (
  <i className='cool-icon'>
     Hello! 
  </i>
);
 
if (this.props.link) {
  return (
    <a href={this.props.link}>
      {child}
    </a>
  );
}
 
return child;
 

react-anaconda is a tiny (515 bytes) library with utilities for:

• conditionally wrapping react components
• Implicit prop sharing across children

Using react-anaconda, we could rewrite the previous example like this:

import Anaconda from 'react-anaconda';
 
return (
  <Anaconda
    when={this.props.link}
    wrap={(children) => <a href={this.props.link}>{children}</a>}
  > 
    <i className='cool-icon'>
       Hello! 
    </i>
  </Anaconda>
)

This is the most basic example. react-anaconda also works with lists and conditional wrapping based on child props. Check out the examples for more.

Installation

npm

npm i react-anaconda 

yarn

yarn add react-anaconda 

Examples

Wrap all children with a wrapper component based on a boolean value

Component

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Anaconda from 'react-anaconda';
 
class BasicBooleanExample extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Anaconda
        when={this.props.clickable}
        wrap={(children) => <a href="http://cool-url.com">{children}</a>}
      > 
        <span> Click me! </span>
        <span> And me! </span>
        <span> Me Three! </span>
        <span> Me Four! </span>
      </Anaconda>
    )
  }
}
 
ReactDOM.render(<BasicBooleanExample />, document.querySelector('.foo'));

Rendered Markup

  <a href="http://cool-url.com"> <span> Click me! </span> </a>
  <a href="http://cool-url.com"> <span> And me! </span> </a>
  <a href="http://cool-url.com"> <span> Me Three! </span> </a>
  <a href="http://cool-url.com"> <span> Me Four! </span> </a>

Wrap all mapped children with a wrapper component based on a boolean value

Component

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import Anaconda from 'react-anaconda';
 
class MapBooleanExample extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Anaconda
        when={this.props.clickable}
        wrap={children => <a href="http://cool-url.com">{children}</a>}
        > 
        {this.props.linkNames.map((linkText) => <span>{linkText}</span>)}
      </Anaconda>
    )
  }
}
 
ReactDOM.render(
<MapBooleanExample 
  linkNames={[
    'Click me!',
    'And me!',
    'Me Three!',
    'Me Four!'
  ]}
/>, document.querySelector('.foo'));

Rendered Markup

<a href="http://cool-url.com"> <span> Click me! </span> </a>
<a href="http://cool-url.com"> <span> And me! </span> </a>
<a href="http://cool-url.com"> <span> Me Three! </span> </a>
<a href="http://cool-url.com"> <span> Me Four! </span> </a>

Wrap children with a wrapper component if their props match a predicate

When you pass a function to the when prop, react-anaconda will check the actual props of each child against that function. If the predicate is true, that child will be wrapped. Consider the following (slightly contrived) example.

Component

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import Anaconda from 'react-anaconda';
 
class PropPredicateExample extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Anaconda
          when={(props) => props.numPeople > 1}
          wrap={children => <div className="moreThanOne">{children}</div>}
      > 
        {this.props.bookings.map(({ numPeople }) => (
          <span numPeople={numPeople}> 
            {numPeople} {numPeople === 1 ? 'person' : 'people'} 
          </span>)
        )}
      </Anaconda>
    )
  }
}
 
ReactDOM.render(
<PropPredicateExample 
  bookings={[
    { numPeople: 1 },
    { numPeople: 2 },
    { numPeople: 1 },
    { numPeople: 3 },
    { numPeople: 1 },
    { numPeople: 4 },
    { numPeople: 5 }
  ]}
/>, document.querySelector('.foo'));

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Note this also works with normal children that aren't mapped. This is useful if you have a few different types of elements you want to conditionally wrap. Also notice how the second argument of wrap will receive the child props so you can use them in your wrapper.

Component

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import Anaconda from 'react-anaconda';
 
class PropPredicateExample extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Anaconda
        when={(props) => props.link}
        wrap={(children, props) => <a href={props.link}>{children}</a>}
      > 
      <span link="http://cool-url.com">Span</span>
      <button link="http://other-cool-url.com">Button</span>
      <article>Article</span>
      </Anaconda>
    )
  }
}
 
ReactDOM.render(<PropPredicateExample />, document.querySelector('.foo'));

Rendered Markup

<a href="http://cool-url.com"><span> Span </span></a>
<a href="http://other-cool-url.com"><button> Button </button></a>
<article> Article </article>
 

Spread custom props implicitly across child components

Any props that you pass to react-anaconda apart from the when and wrap components will be shared amongst all children. Consider the following:

Component

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import Anaconda from 'react-anaconda';
 
const NameBar = ({ name, bar }) => <span>{name}:{bar}</span>;
 
const BarName = ({ name, bar }) => <span>{bar}:{name}</span>;
 
class PropShareExample extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <Anaconda
        when={this.props.clickable}
        wrap={(children) => <a href="http://cool-url.com">{children}</a>}
        name="foo"
        bar={5}
      > 
        {/* All these children will receive the name and bar props */}
        <NameBar clickable />
        <BarName />
      </Anaconda>
    )
  }
}
 
ReactDOM.render(<PropShareExample />, document.querySelector('.foo'));

Rendered Markup

<a href="http://cool-url.com"><span>foo:5</span></a>
<span>5:foo</span>

API

When

Boolean | (props: Object) => Boolean

• The when prop can either be a boolean or a function.

• If a boolean is passed and is true, children will be wrapped.

• You can also pass a function to the when prop. This function will be used as a predicate and passed each childs props as an argument. If the childs props match the predicate, that child will be wrapped.

Wrap

(children: JSX.Element, props: Object) => JSX.Element

• Wrap is a render prop allowing which has 2 arguments.
• The first children argument is the component that will be wrapped.
• The second props argument is the props of the component to be wrapped as an object.
• You should return JSX from this function.

Development

Clone the repo and install dependencies with your favourite package manager. The NPM scripts in the package.json are below.

• build => builds and minifies the code and outputs a production ready bundle
• clean => blows away build folders (es, dist) for a clean build
• dev => runs a parcel development server with hot reloading for development. Access the development playground at localhost:1234
• prepublishOnly => runs prepublish:compile when executing a npm publish
• prepublish:compile => run test, clean then build
• test => runs the jest test suite.
• test:watch => run test in watch mode, which will re-run when you change files pertaining to your tests.
• contributors:add => add a contributor to the all-contributorsrc. For example: npm run contributors:add -- yourusername. You can then select your contributions.
• contributors:generate => generate the new allcontributors file before checking in.
• contributors:check => check that the all-contributorsrc reflects all the people who have actually contributed to the project on github.

Contributors

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Martin McKeaveney 💻 📖 💡 🤔 🚇 ⚠️	Daniel Skelton 💻 ⚠️

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