React Mention Parser

Enhance your strings with live mention components.

Features:

• Super small ~430 B
• Available for React and Preact
• Custom renderer for each mention
• Custom 'click' handler for each mention
• Generic output
• Drop-in and use it. Your code will not have to adapt to anything.

Quick example

// Your typical 'component'
const Card = () => (
    <p>
        Here goes my card contents with #static text inside
    </p>
);

// Will become
import ReactMentionParser from "react-mention-parser";

const Card = () => (
    <p>
        <ReactMentionParser>
            Here goes my card contents with #static text inside
        </ReactMentionParser>
    </p>
);

Install

The usual flow

npm install react-mention-parser --save

Api

The component ReactMentionParser is actually pretty generic. Is not something that someone can't do in half an hour. But, this one has some generic API that could make you turn.

Name	Type	Description
renderMention(value: String, onClick: Function)	function	Returns the custom element to be renderer instead of a <span>. You can go wild here.
onMentionClick(value: String, e: Event)	function	The click handler for each mentions. This will be called with the mention value that got clicked.

Examples

Custom renderer

const Card = (props) => (
    <p>
        <ReactMentionParser
            renderMention={(mentionValue) => (
                <div className="mention">{mentionValue}</div>
            )}
        >
            {props.children}
        </ReactMentionParser>
    </p>
);

With styled components

const Mention = styled.span`
    color: tomato;
`;

const Card = (props) => (
    <p>
        <ReactMentionParser
            renderHashtag={(mentionValue) => (
                <Mention>{mentionValue}</Mention>
            )}
        >
            {props.children}
        </ReactHashtag>
    </p>
);

Reusable or composition

You could reuse the same definition, if that's something you're looking for. The following example uses the anchor and defines a component that will redirect to certain hashtag pages.

const StyledHashtag = styled.a`
    color: tomato;
`;

/**
* Custom component to render the hashtags with a custom renderer
*/
const Mentions = (props) => (
    <ReactMentionParser
        renderMention={(mentionValue) => (
            <StyledHashtag
                href={`/search/${mentionValue}`}
            >
                {mentionValue}
            </StyledHashtag>
        )}
    >
        {props.children}
    </ReactMentionParser>
);

const Card = (props) => (
    <p>
        <ReactMentionParser>
            {props.children}
        </ReactMentionParser>
    </p>
);

Questions?

Feel free to file an issue if you have any questions.