Flashy

Flashy is a 0 dependancy, lightweight flash messages library built using vanilla web components.

Demo

Demo Page

Installation

HTML

Simply include Flashy in your HTML using UNPKG

<script src="https://unpkg.com/flashy-js@latest/dist/flashy.min.js"></script>

or

<script src="./lib/flashy.min.js"></script>

Bower

Coming soon...

Contributing

To Do

• Create core functionality
• Allow for custom styles to be passed
• Allow for custom emojis to be passed to the flash message
• Allow for other icons (svg, fa etc.) to be passed to the flash message
• Allow for custom flash message types

Usage

<flash-messages data-max-messages="5"></flash-messages>

To start with inject the flash-messages element into your HTML. This acts as a container to all the messages.

Attributes

Attribute	Type	Required	Default	Description
data-max-messages	int	false	10	The maximum amount of messages to store in the queue. When the maximum is reached, the oldest message will be removed.

Importing the package exposes the global variable Flashy, which is a function.

Functions

Flashy(querySelector, options)

The Flashy function creates a new flash message to display to the user. The Flashy functions accepts two paramaters, querySelector and options.

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
querySelector	string	true	The query selector to the element
options	object	true	Flash message config, see below table.

Options

The acceptable values in the options object.

Key	Type	Required	Allowable Values	Description
type	string	true	error / warning / info / success	The type of the flash message
title	string	false	N/A	The title of the flash message
message	string	false	N/A	The message displayede
expiry	string	false	N/A (defaults to 0)	Time in MS until message will expire and disappear
globalClose	boolean	false	true / false	Adds a close button to the flash message
styles	object	false	N/A	CSS styles to customise the flash message. See below for the style definition

Buttons

Key	Type	Required	Allowable Values	Description
text	string	true	N/A	Text to be shown on the button
action	function	false	N/A	Function to be run when the button is clicked
closesFlash	boolean	false	true / false	If set to true, clicking the button will remove the flash message

Styles

Key	Type	Required	Allowable Values	Description
flashColor	CSS Color	false	N/A	Background color of the flash message
titleTextColor	CSS Color	false	N/A	Color of the flash message title
titleTextFont	CSS Font Family	false	N/A	Font family attribute of the flash message title
msgTextColor	CSS Color	false	N/A	Color of the flash message content
msgTextFont	CSS Font Family	false	N/A	Font family attribute of the flash message content
linkTextColor	CSS Color	false	N/A	Color of the flash message buttons/links
linkTextFont	CSS Font Family	false	N/A	Font family attribute of the flash message buttons/links
icon	object	false	N/A	Object specifying the icon to be displayed with the message. See below for the icon definition
iconBackgroundColor	CSS Color	false	N/A	Background color behind the icon

Icon

Key	Type	Required	Allowable Values	Description
type	string	true	unicode	Type of the icon (more to be added soon)
val	any	true	N/A	Value of the icon. For unicode, character literal.

Examples

Generic flash message

    Flashy('flash-messages', 
        {
            type: 'success',
            title: 'It worked',
            message: 'Lets rejoice',
        }
    );

Expiring flash message

    Flashy('flash-messages', 
        {
            type: 'info',
            title: 'Act quick',
            message: 'This will be gone in 5 seconds!',
            expiry: 5000,
            globalClose: false,
        }
    );

Action required

    Flashy('flash-messages', 
        {
            type: 'warning',
            title: 'Action required',
            message: 'Something happened and you need to click the button below or this will stay here',
            globalClose: false,
            buttons: [
                {
                    text: 'OK',
                    action: myCoolFunction,
                    closesFlash: true,
                },
                {
                    text: 'Cancel',
                    action: myBoringFunction,
                    closesFlash: false,
                },
            ],
        }
    );

Custom styling

    Flashy('flash-messages', {
        type: 'error',
        title: 'Custom styled',
        message: 'This is really ugly, so it will only last for 5 seconds',
        expiry: 5000,
        buttons: [
            {
                text: 'Close it now!',
                closesFlash: true,
            },
        ],
        globalClose: true,
        styles: {
            flashColor: '#fff',

            titleTextColor: '#000',
            titleTextFont: '\'Arial\' sans-serif',

            msgTextColor: 'pink',
            msgTextFont: '\'Arial\' sans-serif',

            linkTextColor: 'black',
            linkTextFont: '\'Arial\' sans-serif',

            icon: {
                type: 'unicode',
                val: '🤑',
            },
            iconBackgroundColor: 'grey',
        }
    });

Check out the website for project website https://alex-zissis.github.io/flashy