hooked-head

v0.4.1

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2 years ago

Hooks to populate the html head.

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Hooked-Head

This project aims at providing a set of hooks to populate <meta>, ... for each page. With crawlers now supporting client-side alterations it's important to support a fallback model for our <head> tags. The dispatcher located in this library will always make a queue of how we should fallback, ... This way we'll always have some information to give to a visiting crawler.

npm i --save hooked-head
## OR
yarn add hooked-head

import {
  useMeta,
  useLink,
  useLang,
  useTitle,
  useTitleTemplate,
} from 'hooked-head';

const App = () => {
  // Will set <html lang="en">
  useLang('en');

  // Will set title to "Welcome to hooked-head | 💭"
  useTitleTemplate('%s | 💭');
  useTitle('Welcome to hooked-head');

  useMeta({ name: 'author', content: 'Jovi De Croock' });
  useLink({ rel: 'me', href: 'https://jovidecroock.com' });

  return <p>Hooked-Head</p>;
};

Preact

If you need support for Preact you can import from hooked-head/preact instead.

Gatsby

There's a plugin that hooks in with Gatsby and that will fill in the meta, ... in your build process.

Hooks

This package exports useTitle, useTitleTemplate, useMeta, useLink and useLang. These hooks are used to control information conveyed by the <head> in an html document.

useTitle

This hook accepts a string that will be used to set the document.title, every time the given string changes it will update the property.

useTitleTemplate

This hook accepts a string, which will be used to format the result of useTitle whenever it updates. Similar to react-helmet, the placeholder %s will be replaced with the title.

useMeta

This hook accepts the regular <meta> properties, being name, property, httpEquiv, charset and content.

These have to be passed as an object and will update when content changes.

useLink

This hook accepts the regular <link> properties, being rel, as, media, href, sizes and crossorigin.

This will update within the same useLink but will never go outside

useLang

This hook accepts a string that will be used to set the lang property on the base <html> tag. Every time this string gets updated this will be reflected in the dom.

SSR

We expose a method called toStatic that will return the following properties:

title, the current title dictated by the deepest useTitleTemplate and useTitle combination
lang, the current lang dictated by the deepest useLang
metas, an array of unique metas by keyword (property, ...)
links, the links aggregated from the render pass.

The reason we pass these as properties is to better support gatsby, ...

If you need to stringify these you can use the following algo:

const stringify = (title, metas, links) => {
  const visited = new Set();
  return `
    <title>${title}</title>

    ${metaQueue.reduce((acc, meta) => {
      if (!visited.has(meta.charset ? meta.keyword : meta[meta.keyword])) {
        visited.add(meta.charset ? meta.keyword : meta[meta.keyword]);
        return `${acc}<meta ${meta.keyword}="${meta[meta.keyword]}"${
          meta.charset ? '' : ` content="${meta.content}"`
        }>`;
      }
      return acc;
    }, '')}

    ${linkQueue.reduce((acc, link) => {
      return `${acc}<link${Object.keys(link).reduce(
        (properties, key) => `${properties} ${key}="${link[key]}"`,
        ''
      )}>`;
    }, '')}
  `;
};

import { toStatic } from 'hooked-head';

const reactStuff = renderToString();
const { metas, links, title, lang } = toStatic();
const stringified = stringify(title, metas, links);

const html = `
  <!doctype html>
    <html lang="${lang}">
      <head>
        ${stringified}
      </head>
      <body>
        <div id="content">
          ${reactStuff}
        </div>
      </body>
  </html>
`;

Goals

[x] React support
[x] Add majority of types for meta and link.
[x] Concurrent friendly
[x] Preact support
[x] Support <link>
[x] Stricter typings
[x] Document the hooks
[x] Document the dispatcher
[x] SSR support
[x] Consider moving from doc.title = x to inserting <title>x</title>
[x] Golf bytes
[ ] improve typings, there are probably missing possibilities in types.ts

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