@storyblok/react

@storyblok/react

The React plugin you need to interact with Storyblok API and enable the Real-time Visual Editing Experience.

🚀 Usage

If you are first-time user of the Storyblok, read the Getting Started guide to get a project ready in less than 5 minutes.

Installation

Install @storyblok/react:

npm install @storyblok/react
// yarn add @storyblok/react

From a CDN

Install the file from the CDN:

<script src="https://unpkg.com/@storyblok/react"></script>

Initialization

Register the plugin on your application and add the access token of your Storyblok space. You can also add the apiPlugin in case that you want to use the Storyblok API Client:

import { storyblokInit, apiPlugin } from "@storyblok/react";

storyblokInit({
  accessToken: "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
  // bridge: false,
  // apiOptions: {  },
  use: [apiPlugin],
  components: {
    page: Page,
    teaser: Teaser,
    grid: Grid,
    feature: Feature,
  },
});

Add all your components to the components object in the storyblokInit function.

That's it! All the features are enabled for you: the Api Client for interacting with Storyblok CDN API, and Storyblok Bridge for real-time visual editing experience.

You can enable/disable some of these features if you don't need them, so you save some KB. Please read the "Features and API" section

Getting Started

@storyblok/react does three actions when you initialize it:

• Provides a getStoryblokApi object in your app, which is an instance of storyblok-js-client.
• Loads Storyblok Bridge for real-time visual updates.
• Provides a storyblokEditable function to link editable components to the Storyblok Visual Editor.

1. Fetching Content

Inject getStoryblokApi:

import { storyblokInit, apiPlugin, getStoryblokApi } from "@storyblok/react";

storyblokInit({
  accessToken: "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
  // bridge: false,
  // apiOptions: {  },
  use: [apiPlugin],
  components: {
    page: Page,
    teaser: Teaser,
    grid: Grid,
    feature: Feature,
  },
});

const storyblokApi = getStoryblokApi()
const { data } = await storyblokApi.get("cdn/stories", { version: "draft" });

Note: if you don't use apiPlugin, you can use your prefered method or function to fetch your data.

2. Listen to Storyblok Visual Editor events

Use useStoryblok to get the new story every time is triggered a change event from the Visual Editor. You need to pass the slug as first param, and apiOptions as second param to update the new story. bridgeOptions (third param) is optional param if you want to set the options for bridge by yourself:

import { useStoryblok, StoryblokComponent } from "@storyblok/react";

function App() {
  const story = useStoryblok("react", { version: "draft" });

  if (!story?.content) {
    return <div>Loading...</div>;
  }

  return <StoryblokComponent blok={story.content} />;
}

export default App;

You can pass Bridge options as a third parameter as well:

useStoryblok(story.id, (story) => (state.story = story), {
  resolveRelations: ["Article.author"],
});

3. Link your components to Storyblok Visual Editor

For every component you've defined in your Storyblok space, call the storyblokEditable function with the blok content:

import { storyblokEditable } from "@storyblok/react";

const Feature = ({ blok }) => {
  return (
    <div {...storyblokEditable(blok)} key={blok._uid} data-test="feature">
      <div>
        <div>{blok.name}</div>
        <p>{blok.description}</p>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
};

export default Feature;

Where blok is the actual blok data coming from Storblok's Content Delivery API.

As an example, you can check in our Next.js example demo how we use APIs provided from React SDK to combine with Next.js projects.

import { useStoryblokState, getStoryblokApi, StoryblokComponent } from "@storyblok/react";

export default function Home({ story: initialStory }) {
  const story = useStoryblokState(initialStory);

  if (!story.content) {
    return <div>Loading...</div>;
  }

  return <StoryblokComponent blok={story.content} />;
}


export async function getStaticProps({ preview = false }) {
  const storyblokApi = getStoryblokApi()
  let { data } = await storyblokApi.get(`cdn/stories/react`, {
    version: "draft"
  });

  return {
    props: {
      story: data ? data.story : false,
      preview,
    },
    revalidate: 3600, // revalidate every hour
  };
}

If you'd like to have a React.js example demo, you can find it and try it out in your environement from here: React.js example demo

Features and API

You can choose the features to use when you initialize the plugin. In that way, you can improve Web Performance by optimizing your page load and save some bytes.

Storyblok API

You can use an apiOptions object. This is passed down to the storyblok-js-client config object:

storyblokInit({
  accessToken: "YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN",
  apiOptions: {
    // storyblok-js-client config object
    cache: { type: "memory" },
  },
  use: [apiPlugin],
  components: {
    page: Page,
    teaser: Teaser,
    grid: Grid,
    feature: Feature,
  },
});

If you prefer to use your own fetch method, just remove the apiPlugin and storyblok-js-client won't be added to your application.

storyblokInit({});

Storyblok Bridge

If you don't use useStoryblokBridge, you still have access to the raw window.StoryblokBridge:

const sbBridge = new window.StoryblokBridge(options);

sbBridge.on(["input", "published", "change"], (event) => {
  // ...
});

🔗 Related Links

• Storyblok Technology Hub: Storyblok integrates with every framework so that you are free to choose the best fit for your project. We prepared the technology hub so that you can find selected beginner tutorials, videos, boilerplates, and even cheatsheets all in one place.
• Getting Started: Get a project ready in less than 5 minutes.
• Storyblok CLI: A simple CLI for scaffolding Storyblok projects and fieldtypes.
• Storyblok Next.js Technology Hub: Learn how to develop your own Next.js applications that use Storyblok APIs to retrieve and manage content.
• Storyblok React.js example demo: See and try how React SDK works with React.js projects
• Storyblok Next.js example demo: See and try how React SDK works with Next.js projects

ℹ️ More Resources

Support

• Bugs or Feature Requests? Submit an issue.
• Do you have questions about Storyblok or you need help? Join our Discord Community.

Contributing

Please see our contributing guidelines and our code of conduct. This project use semantic-release for generate new versions by using commit messages and we use the Angular Convention to naming the commits. Check this question about it in semantic-release FAQ.