react-sharingbuttons

Lightweight social sharing buttons for React. No tracking. Just fun. Heavily inspired by sharingbuttons.io

Demo & Docs:

https://caspg.github.io/react-sharingbuttons

Installation

  yarn add react-sharingbuttons

or alternatively:

npm install --save react-sharingbuttons

Usage

import { Facebook, Twitter } from 'react-sharingbuttons'

NOTE If you care about your bundle size, you can import each button separately.

import Facebook from 'react-sharingbuttons/dist/buttons/Facebook'
import Twitter from 'react-sharingbuttons/dist/buttons/Twitter'

Import predefined css:

import 'react-sharingbuttons/dist/main.css'

const sharingButtons = () => {
  const url = 'https://github.com/caspg/react-sharingbuttons'
  const shareText = 'Check this site!'

  return (
    <div>
      <Facebook url={url} />
      <Twitter url={url} shareText={shareText} />
    </div>
  )
}

See the example

Overriding styles

You can customize buttons further to meet your needs. For example, following html will be rendered for Twitter button:

<a href="https://your.website" class="react-sharing-button__link react-sharing-button--twitter">
  <svg class="react-sharing-button__icon">...</svg>
  <span class="react-sharing-button__text">Share me</span>
</a>

Available buttons and its props

common props:

• text - text which is displayed inside button, default to button name.
• onClick - onClick event passed to a tag.

button specific props:

Email	text, url, subject
Facebook	text, url
Google	text, url
Pinterest	text, url, shareText (a pin description), mediaSrc
Reddit	text, url
Twitter	text, url, shareText (a tweet text),
LinkedIn	text, url, shareText (a tweet text),
Tumblr	text, url, title, caption, content
WhatsApp	text, url, message (message text),
Telegram	text, url, message (message text),