Getting Started with Create React App

This project was bootstrapped with Create React App. Publishing to package manager was done using instructions here

To install this component

npm install react-comment-form

To use this component

Prerequisites: You need to have Node + NPM installed.

import React from "react";
import QuotesSlider from "react-comment-form";

export default function MyBlogCommentForm() {
  return (
    <CommentForm
      parentId="unique_id"
    />
  );
}

parentId is a mandatory property. It identifies all comments that belong to the same parent (e.g.: a blog post).

Backend APIs

This component expects the following backend APIs. The public repo here has example code written as Azure Functions, but any API that follows the protocol below would do.

1. REACT_APP_BLOGMETADATA_URL. This environment variable should point to an API supporting POST, GET that accepts the following parameters and returns another json response.

Input to API

    {
        "name": "parentId"
    }


Output/Response from API
   {
        "name": "parentId",
        "comments": "all_stored_comments",
        "likes":"current_like_count"
    }

2. REACT_APP_UPDATELIKES_URL. This environment variable should point to an API supporting POST, GET that will update the current like count, addint the passed in numeric value to the existing count. It will return the final updated count in respose.

Input to API

    {
        "name": "parentId",
        "likes": number_to_add_current_like_count
    }


Output/Response from API is expected to be an int value 

3. REACT_APP_COMMENTS_URL. This environment variable should point to an API supporting POST, GET that will update the current comments by prepending the existing comments with the string passed in.

Input to API

    {
        "name": "parentId",
        "comments": "comments to prepend."
    }


Output/Response from API is expected to be an string value that will contain all the comments 
including what is passed in. 

4. REACT_APP_SENDMAIL_URL. This environment variable should point to an API supporting POST, GET that will send email using a service like SendGrid. This API is only needed if REACT_APP_SENDMAIL is set to true - see below.

Input to API

    {
        "fromemail": "fromemail_from_form",
        "from": "user name from form",
        "message": "comment"
    }


Output/Response from API is expected to be an string value that will contain all the comments 
including what is passed in. 

Environment variables

The following environment variables are expected by the component. You can set them in a .env file at the root of your project

REACT_APP_SENDMAIL_URL (Backend API to send email if REACT_APP_SENDMAIL is true)
REACT_APP_SENDMAIL (true|false. If true, every new comment will be sent as an email using the backend API above)
REACT_APP_SENDMAIL_API_KEY (the component will send email if REACT_APP_SENDMAIL is set to true and sendmail is configured)
REACT_APP_BLOGMETADATA_URL (backend API to retrieve info from storage of blog metadata - comments, likes)
REACT_APP_UPDATELIKES_URL (backend API to update like count )
REACT_APP_GOOGLE_CAPTCHA_SITE_KEY (your key for captcha. see [here](https://www.google.com/recaptcha/admin/create))
REACT_APP_COMMENTS_URL (backend API to add comments)
REACT_APP_API_KEY (API key for communicating with the backend API. This will be appended to the end of the 
URLs above with a query string ?code=REACT_APP_API_KEY