voltage-breadcrumbs

Easy to use and customisable breadcrumb component for your react applications.

For the breadcrumb component to stay small and customisable, I had to make some decisions.

1. The last item is always the active page
2. Collapse to dropdown menu after 3 items
3. Make the component seem dump by having the dev pass the links (there are components that auto generate from a routing package, this isn't on of those)

Demo

See a demo and the documentation here

Install

npm install voltage-breadcrumbs
# OR
yarn add voltage-breadcrumbs

Basic Usage

As a minimun, the breadcrumbs need a array of elements to display. This can come in two forms;

Array of objects

import Breadcrumbs from "voltage-breadcrumbs"

// links
const links = [
	{ link: "<url>", text: "Home" },
	...
]

// in render method
<Breadcrumbs links={links} />

link and text are both required when using this approach. Additional keys will be used as props on the <a> in the breadcrumb list. This give you the ability to pass custom props to the links.

Array of Custom Components

const CustomLink = ({text}) => <a href="#">{text}</a>

const links = [
	<CustomLink text="Account information" />,
	...
]

// in render method
<Breadcrumbs links={links} />

Custom Separator

The component allows you to pass in a custom separator or ignore rendering the separator all together.

Example

// Custom string separator
<Breadcrumbs seperator="-" />

// Custom component
<Breadcrumbs separator={<CustomSeparator />} />

// Hide Separator
<Breadcrumbs separator={null}>

What happens after 3 links?

If the links array contains more than 3 items, the additional links collapse into a dropdown menu. This is to stop the breadcrumbs spanning the whole screen.