Strapi - Navigation plugin

A plugin for Strapi Headless CMS that provides navigation / menu builder feature with their possibility to control the audience and different output structure renderers:

• Flat
• Tree (nested)
• RFR (ready for handling by Redux First Router)

⏳ Installation

(Use yarn to install this plugin within your Strapi project (recommended). Install yarn with these docs.)

yarn add strapi-plugin-navigation@latest

After successful installation you've to build a fresh package that includes plugin UI. To archive that simply use:

yarn build
yarn develop

or just run Strapi in the development mode with --watch-admin option:

yarn develop --watch-admin

The UI Navigation plugin should appear in the Plugins section of Strapi sidebar after you run app again.

Enjoy 🎉

🖐 Requirements

Complete installation requirements are exact same as for Strapi itself and can be found in the documentation under Installation Requirements.

Supported Strapi versions:

• Strapi v3.6.0 (recently tested)
• Strapi v3.x

(This plugin may work with the older Strapi versions, but these are not tested nor officially supported at this time.)

We recommend always using the latest version of Strapi to start your new projects.

Features

• Navigation Public API: Simple and ready for use API endpoint for getting the navigation structure you've created
• Visual builder: Elegant and easy to use visual builder
• Any Content Type relation: Navigation can by linked to any of your Content Types by default. Simply, you're controlling it and also limiting available content types by configuration props
• Customizable: Possibility to customize the options like: available Content Types, Maximum level for "attach to menu", Additional fields (audience)
• Audit log: integration with Strapi Molecules Audit Log plugin that provides changes track record

Content Type model relation to Navigation Item

To enable Content Type to work with Navigation Item, you've to add following field to your model *.settings.json:

    "navigation": {
      "model": "navigationitem",
      "plugin": "navigation",
      "via": "related",
      "configurable": false,
      "hidden": true
    }

inside the attributes section like in example below:

    "attributes": {
        ...,
        "navigation": {
            "model": "navigationitem",
            "plugin": "navigation",
            "via": "related",
            "configurable": false,
            "hidden": true
        },
        ...
    },

Configuration

To setup the plugin properly we recommend to put following snippet as part of config/custom.js or config/<env>/custom.js file. If you've got already configurations for other plugins stores by this way, use just the navigation part within exising plugins item.

    ...
    plugins: {
      navigation: {
        additionalFields: ['audience'],
        allowedLevels: 2,
        contentTypesNameFields: {
          'blog_posts': ['altTitle'],
          'pages': ['title'],
        },
      },
    },
    ...

Properties

• additionalFields - Additional fields: 'audience', more in the future
• allowedLevels - Maximum level for which your're able to mark item as "Menu attached"
• contentTypesNameFields - Definition of content type title fields like 'content_type_name': ['field_name_1', 'field_name_2'], if not set titles are pulled from fields like ['title', 'subject', 'name']

Public API Navigation Item model

Flat

{
    "id": 1,
    "title": "News",
    "type": "INTERNAL",
    "path": "news",
    "externalPath": null,
    "uiRouterKey": "News",
    "menuAttached": false,
    "parent": 8, // Parent Navigation Item 'id', null in case of root level
    "master": 1, // Navigation 'id'
    "created_at": "2020-09-29T13:29:19.086Z",
    "updated_at": "2020-09-29T13:29:19.128Z",
    "related": [ <Content Type model > ],
    "audience": []
}

Tree

{
    "title": "News",
    "menuAttached": true,
    "path": "/news",
    "type": "INTERNAL",
    "uiRouterKey": "news",
    "slug": "benefits",
    "external": false,
    "related": {
        <Content Type model >
    },
    "items": [
        {
            "title": "External url",
            "menuAttached": true,
            "path": "http://example.com",
            "type": "EXTERNAL",
            "uiRouterKey": "generic",
            "external": true
        },
        < Tree Navigation Item models >
    ]
}

RFR

{
    "id": "News",
    "title": "News",
    "templateName": "pages:1",
    "related": {
        "contentType": "page",
        "collectionName": "pages",
        "id": 1
    },
    "path": "/news",
    "slug": "news",
    "parent": null, // Parent Navigation Item 'id', null in case of root level
    "menuAttached": true
}

Public API specification

Render

GET <host>/navigation/render/<idOrSlug>?type=<type>

Return a rendered navigation structure depends on passed type (tree, rfr or nothing to render as flat/raw).

Note: The ID of navigation by default is 1, that's for future extensions and multi-navigation feature.

Example URL: https://localhost:1337/navigation/render/1

Example response body

[
    {
        "id": 1,
        "title": "News",
        "type": "INTERNAL",
        "path": "news",
        "externalPath": null,
        "uiRouterKey": "News",
        "menuAttached": false,
        "parent": null,
        "master": 1,
        "created_at": "2020-09-29T13:29:19.086Z",
        "updated_at": "2020-09-29T13:29:19.128Z",
        "related": [{
            "__contentType": "Page",
            "id": 1,
            "title": "News",
            ...
        }]
    },
    ...
]

Example URL: https://localhost:1337/navigation/render/1?type=tree

Example response body

[
    {
        "title": "News",
        "menuAttached": true,
        "path": "/news",
        "type": "INTERNAL",
        "uiRouterKey": "news",
        "slug": "benefits",
        "external": false,
        "related": {
            "__contentType": "Page",
            "id": 1,
            "title": "News",
            ...
        },
        "items": [
            {
                "title": "External url",
                "menuAttached": true,
                "path": "http://example.com",
                "type": "EXTERNAL",
                "uiRouterKey": "generic",
                "external": true
            },
            ...
        ]
    },
    ...
]

Example URL: https://localhost:1337/navigation/render/1?type=rfr

Example response body

{
    "pages": {
        "News": {
            "id": "News",
            "title": "News",
            "templateName": "pages:1",
            "related": {
                "contentType": "page",
                "collectionName": "pages",
                "id": 1
            },
            "path": "/news",
            "slug": "news",
            "parent": null,
            "menuAttached": true
        },
        "Community": {
            "id": "Community",
            "title": "Community",
            "templateName": "pages:2",
            "related": {
                "contentType": "page",
                "collectionName": "pages",
                "id": 2
            },
            "path": "/community",
            "slug": "community",
            "parent": null,
            "menuAttached": true
        },
        "Highlights": {
            "id": "Highlights",
            "title": "Highlights",
            "templateName": "pages:3",
            "related": {
                "contentType": "page",
                "collectionName": "pages",
                "id": 3
            },
            "path": "/community/highlights",
            "slug": "community-highlights",
            "parent": "Community",
            "menuAttached": false
        },
        ...
    },
    "nav": {
        "root": [
            {
                "label": "News",
                "type": "internal",
                "page": "News"
            },
            {
                "label": "Community",
                "type": "internal",
                "page": "Community"
            },
            {
                "label": "External url",
                "type": "external",
                "url": "http://example.com"
            },
            ...
        ],
        "Community": [
            {
                "label": "Highlights",
                "type": "internal",
                "page": "Highlights"
            },
            ...
        ],
        ...
    }
}

Template name

Depending on a content type templateName will be resolved differently

For collection types it will be read from content type's attribute name template holding a component which definition has option named templateName.

For single types a global name of this content type will be used as a template name or it can be set manually with an option named templateName.

Audit log

If you would like to use the Strapi Molecules Audit Log plugin you've to first install and then add in you config/middleware.js following section enable it:

{
    'audit-log': {
          enabled: true,
          exclude: [],
          map: [
            {
              pluginName: 'navigation',
              serviceName: 'navigation',
              Class: Navigation,
            },
          ]
        }
}

As a last step you've to provide the Navigation class to let Audit Log use it. To not provide external & hard dependencies we've added the example of class code in the examples/audit-log-integration.js .

Examples

Live example of plugin usage can be found in the VirtusLab Strapi Examples repository.

Q&A

Content Types

Q: I've recognized Navigation Item and Navigation collection types in the Collections sidebar section, but they are not working properly. What should I do?

A: As an authors of the plugin we're not supporting any editing of mentioned content types via built-in Strapi Content Manager. Plugin delivers highly customized & extended functionality which might be covered only by dedicated editor UI accessible via Plugins Section > UI Navigation. Only issues that has been recognized there, are in the scope of support we've providing.

Contributing

Feel free to fork and make a Pull Request to this plugin project. All the input is warmly welcome!

Community support

For general help using Strapi, please refer to the official Strapi documentation. For additional help, you can use one of these channels to ask a question:

• Slack We're present on official Strapi slack workspace. Look for @cyp3r and DM.
• Slack - VirtusLab Open Source We're present on a public channel #strapi-molecules
• GitHub (Bug reports, Contributions, Questions and Discussions)

License

MIT License Copyright (c) 2021 VirtusLab Sp. z o.o. & Strapi Solutions.