/react-mobile-share

Easy and simple way to share data via mobile’s built-in share module.

Primary LanguageTypeScriptMIT LicenseMIT

React-Mobile-Share

Provides an easy and simple way to share data (such as text, url and media) via mobile’s built-in share module. It is based on Web Share API.

This works only with secure contexts (HTTPS).

💡 Features

  • Lightweight
  • Share text, url and images
  • Works on Android and iOS

🔧 Installation

npm i react-mobile-share    # npm
yarn add react-mobile-share # yarn

🖥️ Demo

Try with CodeSandbox

📱 Preview

Android    iOS

📦 Usage

import React from "react";
import { shareOnMobile } from "react-mobile-share";

const imgBase64 = "data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQAAAQABAAD/2...";

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <button
        onClick={() =>
          shareOnMobile({
            text: "Hey checkout our package react-mobile-share",
            url: "https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-mobile-share",
            title: "React-Mobile-Share",
            images: [imgBase64],
          })
        }
      >
        Share
      </button>
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

👀 API References

Functions

  shareOnMobile(data, fallbackFn)

Takes the following parameters:

Parameter Type Description
data object Required
fallbackFn function Options: return a message

Data Object (1st Parameter)

{
    text: <string>,
    url: "https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-mobile-share",
    title: "React-Mobile-Share",
    images: [imgBase64],
}

Object must contains the following fields:

Field Type Description
title string Required. Must have a title.
text string Optional. Add a description.
url string Optional. Any valid url.
images array Optional. Should be a valid array of base64 strings.

Fallback Function (2nd Parameter)

function(message) {
    console.log("fallback", message)
}

This will invoked when any failure occures.

📜 License

MIT