react-mailchimp-email-signup-form

react-mailchimp-email-signup-form

Easily collect email signups using MailChimp in your React projects.

     

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Install

Package Manager

# npm
npm i react-mailchimp-email-signup-form

# yarn
yarn add react-mailchimp-email-signup-form

Browser

Or you can include it through the browser at the bottom of your page, along with the css at the top of the page:

<!--
  Please note if you're using the browser method you're going to want to
  adjust the version number as needed. The number given here is just an
  initial version.
-->

<link
  rel="stylesheet"
  type="text/css"
  href="https://unpkg.com/react-mailchimp-email-signup-form@1.0.0/dist/react-mailchimp-email-signup-form.css"
/>

<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-mailchimp-email-signup-form@1.0.0/dist/index.js"></script>

Use

CSS

// css import for when you want to import the component css into your css
// file/files
@import "/path/to/node_modules/react-mailchimp-email-signup-form.css";

// javascript import for when you're importing the css directly in your
// javascript
import "react-mailchimp-email-signup-form/dist/react-mailchimp-email-signup-form.css";

React

import React from "react";
import ReactMailchimpEmailSignupForm from "react-mailchimp-email-signup-form";

// Here's a usage example when using functional components
export const SignupForm = () => {
  return (
    <ReactMailchimpEmailSignupForm
      elementId="first-email-signup-form"
      url="https://XX.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX"
      title="Subscribe to the Newsletter"
      subtitle="We take privacy seriously and we'll never spam or sell your information."
    />
  )
};

About

This is just a really simple component that let's you use MailChimp's awesome email signup form but with a little bit more of a modern style. Normally for a component this simple I wouldn't really think to share it, but it ends up being really nice to use in things like Gatsby sites where you really don't want to bring a backend anywhere near your site. It's super easy to use - just follow the steps below to generate the url prop you need to pass to the component.

Go to your MailChimp admin. Click on Create, the Signup Form. Now, choose your audience, and stay on the Embedded form option and click Begin.

On the next screen, you'll see some demos for some embedded forms MailChip is offering. We don't want those - but we do want to url they bring. Go into the form and grab the url from the <form></form> action attribute. For me, this looks something like the following:

https://XXXXX.us4.list-manage.com/subscribe/post?u=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX&id=XXXXXXXXXX

This may look different in your case.

That's it! Just add an elementId, title, and an optional subtitle and you're off.

Notes

I looked into using the MailChimp API option, but that is not going to work from a purely static-type of site. So, while this does have your users leave the page, it ends up being a great option because you really don't have to do anything with any backend at all.

Props

prop	type	required	default	possible values	description
elementId	String	Yes			A unique string form your element.
url	String	Yes			The particular form post url from your MailChimp page.
title	String	Yes			A title for your signup form.
subtitle	String	No			A subtitle for your signup form.

SCSS Structure

.subscribe-container  {
  form {
  }

  &__title {
  }

  &__subtitle {
  }

  &__email {
  }

  &__submit {
    &:hover {
    }
  }
}

Development

# install dependencies
npm install

# serve with hot reload and storybook
npm run storybook

# run the tests
npm run test

# build everything and run tests
npm run build

Other

Go ahead and fork the project! Submit an issue if needed. Have fun!

Thank You

Thank you to MailChimp.

License

MIT

Changelog

1.0.0 (2020-02-01)

• Initial work