Builder Utils

A collection of handy utilities when working with Builder content

getAsyncProps

For cases where you want to render Builder content server side with custom data included at server side render time, you can use our getAsyncProps helper

Example

Say you have a component that takes input props and also fetches data sync

import { Builder } from '@builder.io/react';

export function Products(props) {
  const data = props.data || useProductData(props.category);
  return <>{data.products.map(/*...*/)}</>;
}

Builder.registerComponent(Products, {
  name: 'Products',
  inputs: [{ name: 'category', type: 'string', enum: ['men', 'women'] }],
});

This component will update to fetch product data browser side by category chosen in the Builder editor. But if you want this to render server side you need props.data to be passed with the needed data on render.

To accomplish this, you can use getAsyncProps.

Here is a usage example with Next.js:

import { Builder, builder } from '@builder.io/react';
import { getAsyncProps } from '@builder.io/utils';

export default function MyPage(props) {
  return <BuilderComponent model="page" content={props.content} />;
}

export async function getStaticProps(context) {
  const content = await builder.get('page', { url: context.resolvedUrl }).promise();

  await getAsyncProps(content, {
    async Products(props) {
      return {
        data: await fetch(`${apiRoot}/products?cat=${props.category}`).then(res => res.json()),
      };
    },
  });

  return { props: { content } };
}

extendAsyncProps

extendAsyncProps works by extending any component options (props) that matches the mapper asynchrnously.

Example

Say you have multiple components that take a query input and you want to resolve this query asynchronously before rendering on the server

import { Builder } from '@builder.io/react';

export function ProductGrid(props) {
  const products = props.products || useProductData(props.productsQuery);
  return <>{products.map(/*...*/)}</>;
}
const customQueryInput = {
  name: 'productsQuery',
  type: 'object',
  helperText: 'shopify products query input ',
  defaultValue: {
    sortBy: 'RELEVANCE',
    first: 3,
    query: 'shirt',
  },
  subFields: [
    {
      type: 'string',
      name: 'query',
      helperText: 'for syntax check https://shopify.dev/concepts/about-apis/search-syntax',
    },
    {
      type: 'enum',
      name: 'sortBy',
      enum: [
        {
          label: 'product ID',
          value: 'ID',
        },
        {
          label: 'Date of creation',
          value: 'CREATED_AT',
        },
      ],
    },
    {
      type: 'number',
      name: 'first',
    },
    {
      type: 'number',
      name: 'last',
    },
    {
      type: 'boolean',
      name: 'reverse',
    },
  ],
}
Builder.registerComponent(Products, {
  name: 'ProductGrid', inputs: [customQueryInput}]
})
// another component
Builder.registerComponent(ProductsSlider, {
  name: 'ProductsSlider', inputs: [customQueryInput}]
})

This component will update to fetch product data browser side by query chosen in the Builder editor. But if you want this to render server side you need props.products to be passed with the needed data on render.

To accomplish this, you can use extendAsyncProps.

Here is a usage example with Next.js:

import { Builder, builder } from '@builder.io/react';
import { extendAsyncProps } from '@builder.io/utils';

export default function MyPage(props) {
  return <BuilderComponent model="page" content={props.content} />;
}

export async function getStaticProps(context) {
  const content = await builder.get('page', { url: context.resolvedUrl }).promise();

  await extendAsyncProps(content, {
    async productsQuery(props) {
      return {
        products: await fetch(
          `${apiRoot}/products?${qs.stringify(props.productsQuery)}`
        ).then(res => res.json()),
      };
    },
  });

  return { props: { content } };
}

transformComponents

Transforms builder content usage of multiple components to another.

Example

This example replaces all ProductsGrid components in a builder content into a ProductsSlider which accepts slightly different inputs.

import { Builder } from '@builder.io/react';

function ProductsGrid(props) {
  // props: { category: string }
  const data = useProductData(props.category);
  return <Grid products={data} />;
}

Builder.registerComponent(ProductsGrid, {
  name: 'ProductsGrid',
  inputs: [{ name: 'category', type: 'string', enum: ['men', 'women'] }],
});

import { Builder } from '@builder.io/react';

function ProductsSlider(props) {
  // props: { collection: string }
  const data = useProductData(props.collection);
  return <Slider products={data} />;
}

Builder.registerComponent(ProductsSlider, {
  name: 'ProductsSlider',
  inputs: [{ name: 'collection', type: 'string', enum: ['men', 'women'] }],
});

Notice the different input name between both components, in order to replace ProductsGrid with ProductsSlider will need to run transformComponents specifiying how inputs of one map to the other.

import { transformComponents } from '@builder.io/utils';

function updateGridToSlider(builderContent) {
  return transformComponents(builderContent, {
    ProductsGrid: {
      name: 'ProductsSlider',
      props: {
        // map productsSlider collection input to ProductsGrid category input
        collection: 'category',
      },
    },
  });
}

note: This can break content if the transformation was incorrect, recommend duplicating content and testing on non-live duplicates.

setPixelProperties

setPixelProperties allows you to add more pixel element properties, for example , alt

Example

import { setPixelProperties } from '@builder.io/utils';

export async function getServerSideProps({
  params,
}) {
  const page =
    (await builder
      .get(mode, ....)
      .toPromise()) || null
     
  setPixelProperties(page, { alt: 'pixel tag from builder' })
  
  return {
    props: {
      page,
    },
  }
}

note: Pixels will have alt by default in next API verison (v3);