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react-body-classname
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Provides a declarative way to specify document.body.className in your react app. Supports server-side usage too.
Built with React Side Effect.
yarn add react-body-classname
Dependencies: React >= 0.13.0
import BodyClassName from 'react-body-classname';
const Basic = () => (
<BodyClassName className="helloworld">
<h1>You ate a whole wheel of cheese?</h1>
</BodyClassName>
);
// -> document.body.className === "helloworld"
const Nested = () => (
<BodyClassName className="outside">
<div>
<BodyClassName className="inside">
<p>I‘m not even mad</p>
</BodyClassName>
</div>
</BodyClassName>
);
// -> document.body.className === "outside inside"
const GoCrazy = () => (
<BodyClassName className={Array(8).join(''/0) + ' batman!'}>
<h1>I'm impressed</h1>
</BodyClassName>
);
// -> document.body.className === "NaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaNNaN batman!"
Note: Only supports a single child as props.
When using server-side, use BodyClassName.rewind() after rendering components to string to retrieve the combined class name. Then chuck that into your HTML template.
Important: This component keeps track of mounted instances, so if you don't call BodyClassName.rewind() you'll get a memory leak.
FAQs
A declarative, nested way to manipulate your body's className
The npm package react-body-classname receives a total of 8,656 weekly downloads. As such, react-body-classname popularity was classified as popular.
We found that react-body-classname demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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