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Ditto React

ditto-react makes it easy to integrate a React app with Ditto.

Exposes Ditto data to your application through an easy-to-wrap provider
Offers support for localizing using Ditto variants
Works hand-in-hand with the Ditto CLI

Ditto also works with many popular 3rd party i18n libraries. Check out our demo repository for an example of how Ditto can be integrated into development using react-i18next.

Installation

You can install ditto-react from npm:

# as a dev dependency
npm install --save-dev ditto-react

ditto-react comes with TypeScript bindings out of the box.

Getting Started

Set up the CLI

First, you'll need to set up the Ditto CLI in your repository; initialize the CLI in a place that is accessible to your React code.

For example, if you have a project created with create-react-app, initialize the CLI in the src folder, because directories outside of it can't be imported from your application. See the Ditto CLI's README for more information on how to set it up and start syncing data from your workspace.

Set up the provider

At the root of your application, import and wrap your app in DittoProvider; pass its source prop data imported from the ditto folder generated by the CLI's pull command:

import DittoProvider from "ditto-react";
import dittoData from "./ditto";

const App = () => <DittoProvider source={dittoData}>...</DittoProvider>;

Start implementing text components

Anywhere in your application that requires product copy, import and use the Ditto component:

import { Ditto } from 'ditto-react';

const HomePage = () => (
  <div>
    <h1><Ditto componentId="home.title" /></h1>
    <h2><Ditto componentId="home.subtitle"></h2>
    <p><Ditto componentId="home.body" /></p>
    <footer>
      <ul>
        <li>
          <a href="/home"><Ditto componentId="footer.links.home" /></a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="/contact"><Ditto componentId="footer.links.contact" /></a>
        </li>
        <li>
          <a href="/about"><Ditto componentId="footer.links.about" /></a>
        </li>
      </ul>
    </footer>
  </div>
)

Localize with variants

If the components in your Ditto workspace have variants, you can use them in ditto-react by passing a variant prop to DittoProvider. The value of the prop should be equal to the API ID of the variant:

import DittoProvider from "ditto-react";
import dittoData from "./ditto";

const options = ["base", "spanish", "korean"];

const App = () => {
  const [variant, setVariant] = useState(options[0]);

  return (
    <DittoProvider source={dittoData} variant={variant}>
      ...
    </DittoProvider>
  );
};

Example

To see a working React app utilizing the Ditto CLI and ditto-react, please refer to the Ditto Demo project: https://github.com/dittowords/ditto-demo.

Reference

DittoProvider

The DittoProvider component should wrap all parts of your component tree that will display copy from Ditto.

Props

Prop	Type	Description
`source`	JSON (required)	Copy data imported from the CLI-generated `ditto` folder — see Source for more info
`variant`	String (optional)	The API ID of a variant; if specified, all descendant `Ditto` components will attempt to display the value of that variant (requires usage of the `variants` CLI option)
`projectId`	String (optional)	The ID of a project in Ditto; can also be ommitted from the provdier and passed as a direct prop to `Ditto` components
`options`	Object (optional)	See DittoProvider options

Example

import DittoProvider, { Ditto } from "ditto-react";
import source from "./ditto";

<DittoProvider source={source}>{/* the rest of your app */}</DittoProvider>;

Options

Key	Type	Description
`environment`	`development` or `production`	The environment the `DittoProvider` should operate in. If `production` or unspecified, missing text will be silently replaced with an empty string. If `development`, missing text will be replaced with clear error strings and errors will be emitted to the console.

Ditto

The Ditto component is used for rendering text. Text can be rendered from components in your component library (recommended) or from projects in your workspace.

Which method you use depends on how you've configured your CLI options. Please refer to the Ditto CLI and Ditto Demo projects for more information.

Component Library (recommended)

Prop	Type	Description
`componentId`	string	The API ID of a component in your component library. If a `variant` prop is passed to an ancestor `DittoProvider`, will attempt to display the specified variant's value for the passed `componentId`; otherwise, will default to displaying base text.

Example

<Ditto componentId="footer.links.contact-us" />

Project

Prop	Type	Description	Example
`projectId`	string (semi-required)	ID of a project in Ditto; required if a `projectId` isn't found in an ancestor `DittoProvider`
`textId`	string (optional)	ID of a single text item in Ditto
`frameId`	string (optional)	ID of a frame in Ditto
`blockId`	string (optional)	ID of a block in Ditto
`filters`	object (optional)	object of filters for text items returned. Currently supports a single parameter: tags, an array of tag strings	{ tags: ["SELECTS"]}

Examples

If you pass textId, the specified text string will be rendered:

<Ditto
  textId="text_6151fa25151df3024333a8cb"
  projectId="613a9b8fd268f614cae17469"
/>

If you pass frameId and/or blockId, the specified frame/block object will be passed to a child function:

<Ditto
  frameId="frame_6151fa25151df3024333a8bd"
  blockId="my_block"
  projectId="613a9b8fd268f614cae17469"
>
  {(block) =>
    Object.keys(block).map((id) => <div key={block[id]}>{block[id]}</div>)
  }
  }
</Ditto>

Note

In addition to the <Ditto /> component, individual exports of each specific component type are also available. These behave identically to passing the respective prop configurations to the <Ditto /> component, but may provide a better experience for TypeScript users due to their improved out-of-the-box type safety and inference:

import {
  DittoFrame,
  DittoBlock,
  DittoText,
  DittoComponent, // rendering components from your Ditto component library
} from "ditto-react";

Additional Examples

Example: Single Text

The Ditto component can be used to fetch a specific text item from the Ditto project using its API ID. Note that you can edit IDs for text, blocks, and frames directly the Ditto web app:

<Ditto textId="text_601cc35c5bsdfe42cc3f6f8ac59" />

Example: Fetch Block

You can also fetch an entire Block in Ditto at once by specifying the frameId and the blockId.

It will return as an entire JSON object of the frame. You can pull out specific IDs of text you'd like to pass to its children.

<Ditto frameId="frame_601cc35d5be42cc3f6f8ad15" blockId="hero">
  {({ hero_h1, text_601cc35c5be42cc3f6f8ac46, hero_cta }) => (
    <div>
      <h1>{hero_h1}</h1>
      <h2>{text_601cc35c5be42cc3f6f8ac46}</h2>
      <button>{hero_cta}</button>
    </div>
  )}
</Ditto>

You can also iterate through the entire block (just as you can with any other object) to display each one.

<Ditto frameId="header" blockId="navigation">
  {(block) => {
    return Object.keys(block).map((id) => (
      <div key={block[id]}>{block[id]}</div>
    ));
  }}
</Ditto>

Example: Fetch Frame

You can also fetch an entire Block in Ditto at once by just specifying the frameId. With it, you can fetch specific blocks, or iterate through all blocks and containing IDs as needed.

<Ditto frameId="frame_601cc35d5be42cc3f6f8ad17">
  {(frame) => {
    return Object.keys(frame.blocks).map((blockId) => (
      <div className={style.footerCol} key={blockId}>
        {Object.keys(frame.blocks[blockId]).map((textId) => (
          <div className={style.link} key={textId}>
            {frame.blocks[blockId][textId]}
          </div>
        ))}
      </div>
    ));
  }}
</Ditto>

Example: Filtering by Tags

If you want to filter the text fetched by properties contained in the project itself, you can specify parameters to the filter prop of the Ditto component. This currently only supports the Tags field in Ditto, but will be expanded in the future to filter on any other metadata properties.

// will only return text with the "TOP_NAV" tag
<Ditto
  frameId="frame_601cc35d5be42cc3f6f8ad15"
  blockId="navigation"
  filters={{ tags: ["TOP_NAV"] }}
>
  {(block) => {
    return Object.keys(block).map((id) => (
      <div className={style.link} key={block[id]}>
        {block[id]}
      </div>
    ));
  }}
</Ditto>

Source

phe React provider takes structured JSON outputs from Ditto as the source. These can be linked and automatically updated via our API/CLI, or exported manually via the Ditto web app.

If you're using manual exports from the Ditto web app, turn on Developer Mode in the toolbar of project you're working from to generate API IDs. Then, export your file formatted with the IDs into your local directory .

Feedback

Have feedback? We’d love to hear it! Ditto's developer integrations are constantly being improved by feedback from users like you. :)

Message us at support@dittowords.com.

bastiotutuama/ditto-react

Ditto React

Installation

Getting Started

Set up the CLI

Set up the provider

Start implementing text components

Localize with variants

Example

Reference

DittoProvider

Props

Example

Options

Ditto

Component Library (recommended)

Example

Project

Examples

Note

Additional Examples

Example: Single Text

Example: Fetch Block

Example: Fetch Frame

Example: Filtering by Tags

Source

Feedback