@metomic/react

React library for Metomic cookie widget

React wrapper around Metomic's cookie consent solution.

Install

# With npm
npm i @metomic/react

# With Yarn
yarn add @metomic/react

Usage

This component implements the Metomic SDK to make getting consent in your React app easy.

Quickstart

import { ConsentGate, MetomicProvider } from '@metomic/react'

const MyApp = () => (
  <MetomicProvider projectId="my-project-id">
    <>
      <ConsentGate micropolicy="my-policy">
        <MaybeBlockedComponent />
      </ConsentGate>
      <OtherComponent>
    </>
  </MetomicProvider>
)

<MetomicProvider />

The <MetomicProvider> is the easiest way of getting started. Just wrap your app with it pass in the projectId prop, and it'll inject the script tags for you in your document's head.

Once the scripts have loaded, <MetomicProvider> will inform any <ConsentGate>s in your code whether they should block or allow their children to render.

Props

Prop	Type	Default	Description
projectId	string	(required)	Your Metomic project id
children	ReactElement	(required)	The rest of your app
autoblocking	boolean	true	Whether autoblocking is on. This is separate from the setting in your dashboard, and must be set to true if you wish to enable autoblocking, so that the autoblocking configuration is also downloaded.
debug	boolean	false	Set to true to get console logs for when blocking or unblocking happens.

<ConsentGate />

The main component is the <ConsentGate>, which tells React whether to render its children or not, based on whether the user has accepted the given micropolicy.

import {ConsentGate} from '@metomic/react'

const MyApp = () => (
  <ConsentGate micropolicy="my-policy">
    <MaybeBlockedComponent />
  </ConsentGate>
)

If you want to render a Placeholder in place of the blocked Component, simply add the placeholder prop. You can also pass in any parameters you want by passing a an object into the placeholderParams prop.

import {ConsentGate} from '@metomic/react'

const MyApp = () => (
  <ConsentGate
    micropolicy="my-policy"
    placeholder="/my-placeholder.html"
    placeholderParams={{
      color: 'blue',
      position: 'left',
    }}
  >
    <MaybeBlockedComponent />
  </ConsentGate>
)

Prop	Type	Default	Description
micropolicy	string	(required)	The micropolicy powering this <ConsentGate/>.
children	ReactElement	(required)	The component that should be blocked or unblocked. Only one node is allowed, but you may wrap multiple children in a React Fragment if desired.
placeholder	string	undefined	The url pointing to your Placeholder. You may also use one of the standard Metomic placeholders
placeholderParams	object	undefined	Any arbitrary params you wish to pass to the Placeholder.

Writing your own Placeholders

See the main documentation here.

If the children of a <ConsentGate /> is a native DOM component (e.g. <img> <picture>, <iframe>, etc.), your placeholder will get the text property in its onReady() payload.

If children is a custom React component that you write or import from a library, the text property will simply be undefined. In most cases, you should rely on the placeholderParams prop to customise your placeholder, rather than parsing the DOMString representing the rendered HTML.

Difference with HTML manual blocking

Because React isn't parsed the same way as regular HTML, we don't need a separate mechanisms for blocking different kinds of HTML elements.

That is, instead of wondering if you should mutate the tag or wrap it, in React you always wrap the component you want to block.

import {ConsentGate} from '@metomic/react'

const MyApp = () => (
  <ConsentGate
    micropolicy="my-policy"
    placeholder="/my-placeholder.html"
    placeholderParams={{
      color: 'blue',
      position: 'left',
    }}
  >
    <script src="some-external-thing.js" />
  </ConsentGate>
)

Advanced Usage

If you want to control loading the Metomic snippet outside of your React app, you can choose not to use the <MetomicProvider>. Since <MetomicProvider> inserts the Metomic scripts via a side effect, this might not be compatible with your architecture.

Because <MetomicProvider> is simply syntactic sugar over the React Context that <ConsentGate> uses, you may simply write your own Context Provider:

import {MetomicContext} from '@metomic/react'
const MyMetomicProvider = () => <MetomicContext.Provider
  value={{
    // Only set this to true if, by the time the Provider is rendered, you
    // are sure that the `window.Metomic` object is initialised. If you
    // have the snippet in your base HTML, this will be true.
    isReady: true,
    // Provide any function used for debugging.
    // If you wish to silence debug statements, pass in a noop () => {}
    debug: (...a) => console.log(`[metomic]`, ...a),
    /* The set of rules powering autoblocking, keyed by micropolicy name:
      {
        micropolicy1: [rule1, rule2],
        micropolicy2: [rule1, rule2]
      }
      This is only used for debugging purposes for now, but might be used
      in future.
    */
    autoblockingRules: {},
  }}>
  {children}
</MetomicContext.Provider>