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User Feedback Form

A javascript plugin to add a user feedback form to your website.

You will also need a backend data store. See user-feedback-store.

Quickstart

npm

Install from npm

npm install @nhsuk/user-feedback-form

Use script in your javascript build

import userFeedbackForm from '@nhsuk/user-feedback-form';

userFeedbackForm({
    cssSelector: "#my-div-id",
    formEndpoint: "https://example.com/my-api-endpoint/",
    enableTextResponse: false,
});

script

If you do not have a node-based javascript frontend build, you can use the minified javascript distribution.

The latest javascript file can be found in github releases https://github.com/nhsuk/user-feedback-form/releases

<!-- in the html <head> -->
<script src="./user-feedback-form.min.js" defer></script>

...

<!-- where you want the form to appear -->
<div id="nhsuk-user-feedback-form" data-form-endpoint="https://example.com/endpoint/"></div>

Attributes

data-form-endpoint - (required) An HTTP data store endpoint to POST data to. Include the trailing slash. The endpoint setting should probably be this:

<div id="nhsuk-user-feedback-form" data-form-endpoint="http://localhost:7071/"></div>

data-enable-text-response - (optional) Include to enable text responses on the feedback form.

API

  • userFeedbackForm(settings)

Adds the user feedback form inside a <div> element. settings.cssSelector will be used to select the div from the DOM.

settings should be an object containing:

  • formEndpoint - (required) An HTTP data store endpoint to POST data to.
  • cssSelector - (optional) HTML selector insert the form into. '#nhsuk-user-feedback-form' by default.

Events

An onFeedback event is emitted when the user gives satisfied or unsatisfied feedback by clicking on the yes or no buttons.

You can listen to this event to trigger custom javascript code.

// Listen to the event on the container div
document.querySelector("#nhsuk-user-feedback-form").addEventListener('onFeedback', (event) => {
  // custom code using the boolean `isSatisfied` value.
  console.log(event.detail.isSatisfied)
});

Contributing

Development

Run npm install followed by npm start to start a development server. A test site will be available at http://localhost:8080/tests/example/

Style

For now, this app is very simple, so we don't use any libraries like Vue or React. The App class in src/index.js represents the app as a whole. Each screen has it's own class which can be instantiated and rendered with the render method when the screen should be displayed. The screen classes are responsible for screen-level interactions such as rendering, attaching event listeners and input validation.

Run npm run lint to run eslint code linting.

Tests

Run npm test to run all tests.