link-prevue

A flexible component for generating a link preview

Live Demo.

Demo repository.

Intallation

npm install link-prevue

Basic usage

Javascript

import LinkPrevue from 'link-prevue'

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
  components: {
    LinkPrevue
  }
})

HTML

<div id="app">
  <link-prevue url="https://vuejs.org/"></link-prevue>
</div>

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Custom card

To use a custom card, set your own html code between the aperture tag and the close tag of component. Using the scoped slot.

<div id="app">
  <link-prevue url="https://vuejs.org/">
    <template slot-scope="props">
      <div class="card" style="width: 20rem;">
        <img class="card-img-top" :src="props.image" :alt="props.title">
        <div class="card-block">
          <h4 class="card-title">{{props.title}}</h4>
          <p class="card-text">{{props.description}}</p>
          <a v-bind:href="props.url" class="btn btn-primary">More</a>
        </div>
      </div>
    </template>
  </link-prevue>
</div>

Custom loading indicator

To use a custom loading indicator, use the loading slot.

<div id="app">
  <link-prevue url="https://vuejs.org/">
    <template slot="loading">
      <!-- set your custom loading -->
      <h1>Loading...</h1>
    </template>
  </link-prevue>
</div>

Custom button handler

For custom button handler use the onButtonClick property, like.

HTML

<div id="app">
  <link-prevue url="https://vuejs.org/" :onButtonClick="onClick"></link-prevue>
</div>

Javascript

import LinkPrevue from 'link-prevue'

export default {
  components:{
    LinkPrevue
  },
  methods: {
    onClick(prevue) {
      console.log('click', prevue.images, prevue.title, prevue.url, prevue.description)
    }
  }
}

Props API

link-prevue have the following props for customize the component

Prop	Type	Required	Default Value	Description
url	String	yes	undefined	Site url for generate link preview
onButtonClick	Function	no	undefined	Function for a custom button handler, params => prevue
cardWidth	String	no	'400px'	Card width, accept px and %
showButton	Boolean	no	true	Render card button
apiUrl	String	no	https://linkpreview-api.herokuapp.com/	Custom API url check this

API REST

link-prevue use an API REST for retrieve link data if you want to use your own API REST check this.

License

This code is distributed under the terms and conditions of the MIT license.