react-share

What is react-share?

The react-share npm package provides a collection of social media share buttons and share counts for React applications. It supports a wide range of social media platforms and allows for easy integration of sharing functionalities.

What are react-share's main functionalities?

Facebook Share Button

This feature allows you to create a Facebook share button with a customizable icon. The button can be used to share a specified URL on Facebook.

import { FacebookShareButton, FacebookIcon } from 'react-share';

const FacebookShare = () => (
  <FacebookShareButton url={'https://example.com'}>
    <FacebookIcon size={32} round={true} />
  </FacebookShareButton>
);

Twitter Share Button

This feature allows you to create a Twitter share button with a customizable icon. The button can be used to share a specified URL and title on Twitter.

import { TwitterShareButton, TwitterIcon } from 'react-share';

const TwitterShare = () => (
  <TwitterShareButton url={'https://example.com'} title={'Check this out!'}>
    <TwitterIcon size={32} round={true} />
  </TwitterShareButton>
);

LinkedIn Share Button

This feature allows you to create a LinkedIn share button with a customizable icon. The button can be used to share a specified URL on LinkedIn.

import { LinkedinShareButton, LinkedinIcon } from 'react-share';

const LinkedinShare = () => (
  <LinkedinShareButton url={'https://example.com'}>
    <LinkedinIcon size={32} round={true} />
  </LinkedinShareButton>
);

Share Count

This feature allows you to display the share count for a specified URL on Facebook. Similar components are available for other social media platforms.

import { FacebookShareCount } from 'react-share';

const FacebookShareCountExample = () => (
  <FacebookShareCount url={'https://example.com'} />
);

Other packages similar to react-share

react-social-sharing

The react-social-sharing package provides a set of social media sharing buttons for React applications. It supports fewer platforms compared to react-share but offers a simpler API and easier customization options.

react-social-icons

The react-social-icons package offers a collection of social media icons that can be used for sharing purposes. It focuses more on providing a wide range of icons rather than the sharing functionality itself, making it a good complement to other sharing packages.

react-share-buttons

The react-share-buttons package provides a set of customizable share buttons for various social media platforms. It offers similar functionalities to react-share but with a different set of customization options and styling capabilities.

README

react-share

Social media share buttons and share counts for your React apps.

Install

npm install react-share

Features

• no external script loading, i.e. no dependencies on SDKs
• supports tree shaking with ES modules
• opens a popup share-window
• share buttons for:
  • Facebook
  • Facebook Messenger
  • X (formerly Twitter)
  • Telegram
  • Whatsapp
  • LinkedIn
  • Pinterest
  • VK
  • Odnoklassniki
  • Reddit
  • Tumblr
  • Mail.Ru
  • LiveJournal
  • Viber
  • Workplace
  • Line
  • Weibo
  • Pocket
  • Instapaper
  • Hatena
  • Gab
  • Bluesky
  • email
  • Threads
• share counts for
  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • VK
  • Odnoklassniki
  • Reddit
  • Tumblr
  • Hatena
• social media icons included in the library
• supports also custom icons

Demo

• Deployed demo (from ./demo)

• Codesandbox example

• Locally: clone the repository and run npm install && npm run demo.

React compatibility

Version	Compatible React versions
1	0.13.x, 0.14.x, 15.x.x.
2	15, 16
3	15, 16
3.0.1	^16.3.
4	^16.3, 17, 18
5	17, 18, 19

API

Share buttons

import {
  EmailShareButton,
  FacebookShareButton,
  GabShareButton,
  HatenaShareButton,
  InstapaperShareButton,
  LineShareButton,
  LinkedinShareButton,
  LivejournalShareButton,
  MailruShareButton,
  OKShareButton,
  PinterestShareButton,
  PocketShareButton,
  RedditShareButton,
  TelegramShareButton,
  ThreadsShareButton,
  TumblrShareButton,
  TwitterShareButton,
  ViberShareButton,
  VKShareButton,
  WhatsappShareButton,
  WorkplaceShareButton,
} from "react-share";

Share button props

	Required props	Optional props
All	children (string/element): React node url (string): URL of the shared page	htmlTitle (string): Adds accessible title="" attribute to button the element disabled (bool): Disables click action and adds "disabled" class disabledStyle (object, default={ opacity: 0.6 }): Disabled style windowWidth, windowHeight (number, different default for all share buttons): opened window dimensions beforeOnClick (() => Promise/() => void): Takes a function that returns a Promise to be fulfilled before calling onClick. If you do not return promise, onClick is called immediately. openShareDialogOnClick (boolean): Open dialog on click. Defaults to true except on EmailShareButton onShareWindowClose (() => void): Takes a function to be called after closing share dialog. resetButtonStyle (boolean, default=true): Reset button element style. Preferred to be set to false if you want to customize the button style.
EmailShareButton	-	subject (string): Title of the shared page body (string): Email, will be prepended to the url. separator (string, default=" "): Separates body from the url
FacebookShareButton	-	hashtag (string): A hashtag specified by the developer to be added to the shared content. People will still have the opportunity to remove this hashtag in the dialog. The hashtag should include the hash symbol.
FacebookMessengerShareButton	appId (string): Facebook application id	redirectUri (string): The URL to redirect to after sharing (default: the shared url). to (string): A user ID of a recipient. Once the dialog comes up, the sender can specify additional people as recipients.
HatenaShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page
InstapaperShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page description (string): Description of the shared page
LinkedinShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page summary (string): Description of the shared page source (string): Source of the content (e.g. your website or application name)
LineShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page
LivejournalShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page description (string): Description of the shared page
MailruShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page description (string): Description of the shared page imageUrl (string): An absolute link to the image that will be shared
OKShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page description (string): Description of the shared page image (string): An absolute link to the image that will be shared
PinterestShareButton	media (string): An absolute link to the image that will be pinned	description (string): Description for the shared pinId (string): Id of existing pin - If you’ve already pinned this page, use this to treat any new Pins of this page as repins of the original. Doing this can give you a better feel for engagement, because any Pins you create will count towards repins of your original Pin.
PocketShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page. Note that if Pocket detects a title tag on the page being saved, this parameter will be ignored and the title tag of the saved page will be used instead.
RedditShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page
TelegramShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page
ThreadsShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page url: (string)
TumblrShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page tags: (Array<string>) caption (string): Description of the shared page posttype (string, default=link)
TwitterShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page url: (string) hashtags (array): Hashtags related (array): Accounts to recommend following
ViberShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page separator (string), default=" ": Separates title from the url
VKShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page image (string): An absolute link to the image that will be shared noParse (boolean): If true is passed, VK will not retrieve URL information noVkLinks (boolean): If true is passed, there will be no links to the user's profile in the open window. Only for mobile devices
WeiboShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page image (string): An absolute link to the image that will be shared
WhatsappShareButton	-	title (string): Title of the shared page separator (string, default=" "): Separates title from the url
WorkplaceShareButton	-	quote (string): A quote to be shared along with the link. hashtag (string): A hashtag specified by the developer to be added to the shared content. People will still have the opportunity to remove this hashtag in the dialog. The hashtag should include the hash symbol.

Share counts

import {
  FacebookShareCount,
  HatenaShareCount,
  OKShareCount,
  PinterestShareCount,
  RedditShareCount,
  TumblrShareCount,
  VKShareCount,
} from "react-share";

All share count components take in only one mandatory prop: url, which is the URL you are sharing. className prop is optional.

Example:

<FacebookShareCount url={shareUrl} />

If you want to render anything else but the count, you can provide a function as a child element that takes in shareCount as an argument and returns an element:

<FacebookShareCount url={shareUrl}>
  {(shareCount) => <span className="myShareCountWrapper">{shareCount}</span>}
</FacebookShareCount>

Icons

import {
  EmailIcon,
  FacebookIcon,
  FacebookMessengerIcon,
  GabIcon,
  HatenaIcon,
  InstapaperIcon,
  LineIcon,
  LinkedinIcon,
  LivejournalIcon,
  MailruIcon,
  OKIcon,
  PinterestIcon,
  PocketIcon,
  RedditIcon,
  TelegramIcon,
  ThreadsIcon,
  TumblrIcon,
  TwitterIcon,
  ViberIcon,
  VKIcon,
  WeiboIcon,
  WhatsappIcon,
  WorkplaceIcon,
  XIcon,
  BlueskyIcon,
} from "react-share";

Props:

• size: Icon size in pixels (number)

• round: Whether to show round or rect icons (bool)

• borderRadius: Allow rounded corners if using rect icons (number)

• bgStyle: customize background style, e.g. fill (object)

• iconFillColor: customize icon fill color (string, default = 'white')

Example:

<TwitterIcon size={32} round={true} />

About semantic versioning

This library uses the standard semver convention. However, the share buttons and and counts are prone to lots of changes that are not in control of this library. For example: if Facebook decides to change or deprecate it's API in a major way, this library will not get a major version bump just because of that. Keep this in mind when you are planning the maintenance of your application.

License

MIT

Icons

Icon paths provided by: react-social-icons.

Changelog

5.2.2

Patch Changes

• d04d084: Fix warning of passing extraneous networkName for the share buttons.