Embeddable React Widget

Easy creation of an embeddable widget.

Features

• Full ES6/ES2015 support (with Babel)
• Package fonts, css, json, javascripts together into one single package (with Webpack)
• No css styling conflicts between the host page and the widget (with https://github.com/premasagar/cleanslate)
• User theming of widget
• Obfuscating of the widget code
• Unit Tested with code coverage enabled
• Continuous Integration ready

Running the widget

Install dependencies

$ npm install

Start the development server

$ npm start
... server running at http://localhost:8080/

Run tests

$ npm test
... test output

Production build

$ npm run build
... create files in /dist

Roadmap

• Widget as react app - index.html works (webpack, babel, react)
• React widget (widget builder)
• Webpack changed to output a library
• Add tests
• Add circleci integration
• Add codecov integration for codecoverage
• Production Build
• Minified
• Add greenkeeper
• Reset / Cleanslate / No-conflicts of styles
• Obfuscation
• Integrate eslint with webpack
• Theming support
• Storyboard and docs

Background

What is an embeddable widget?

• Usable using a simple <script> tag
• Configurable with code
• Themable

Why not in an iframe?

• Interaction between the frame and the hosting page is tricky and not recommended
• You can only display content within the iframe
• iframe and content resizing is impossible
• iframe sandboxing can result in missing functionalities

Read more

Read more about about widgets, react and scoping of css.

• https://www.robinwieruch.de/minimal-react-webpack-babel-setup/#hot-module-replacement
• https://codeburst.io/building-react-widget-libraries-using-webpack-e0a140c16ce4
• https://github.com/timarney/react-app-rewired
• https://github.com/premasagar/cleanslate
• https://github.com/krasimir/third-party-react-widget
• https://github.com/jenyayel/js-widget
• https://github.com/anakinjay/react-widget-starter
• https://webpack.js.org/guides/author-libraries/
• https://github.com/webpack-contrib/webpack-serve
• https://medium.freecodecamp.org/part-1-react-app-from-scratch-using-webpack-4-562b1d231e75
• https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/blob/next/packages/react-scripts/config/webpack.config.prod.js
• https://github.com/webpack-contrib/purifycss-webpack
• https://medium.com/quick-code/from-zero-to-deploy-set-up-react-stack-with-webpack-3-20b57d6cb8d7
• https://medium.com/dailyjs/building-a-react-component-with-webpack-publish-to-npm-deploy-to-github-guide-6927f60b3220
• http://krasimirtsonev.com/blog/article/javascript-library-starter-using-webpack-es6
• https://github.com/javascript-obfuscator/webpack-obfuscator
• https://github.com/tsileo/embedded-js-widget
• https://thomassileo.name/blog/2014/03/27/building-an-embeddable-javascript-widget-third-party-javascript/