vue-social-sharing

Vue Social Sharing

Vue.js renderless components for sharing links on major social networks

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Demo

What is a renderless component?

Renderless components give you the highest possible control over your markup and styling. This means that vue-social-sharing ship with minimal HTML and no CSS to let you adapt the look and feel of the components to your needs. You can learn more about renderless components in this blog article by @adamwathan.

Understanding social sharing

Before using this package it is important to understand how Social Network handle sharing links on their platform. When you share a link on a Social Network, the Social Network will crawl the link to detect Open Graph meta tags. If you share links that do not contain Open Graph meta tags, the Social Network will not be able to display a rich content for your link. You can refer to the Available properties section of the documentation to check which Social Network accept properties without Open Graph tags.

Installation

# Yarn
yarn add vue-social-sharing

# NPM
npm install --save vue-social-sharing

Usage

Loading the library

Browserify / Webpack

import VueSocialSharing from 'vue-social-sharing'

Vue.use(SocialSharing);

Nuxt

// In your nuxt.config.js file:
modules: [
  'vue-social-sharing/nuxt'
]

HTML

<script src="/dist/vue-social-sharing.js"></script>

Using the Share Network component

<ShareNetwork
    network="facebook"
    url="https://news.vuejs.org/issues/180"
    title="Say hi to Vite! A brand new, extremely fast development setup for Vue."
    description="This week, I’d like to introduce you to 'Vite', which means 'Fast'. It’s a brand new development setup created by Evan You."
    quote="The hot reload is so fast it\'s near instant. - Evan You"
    hashtags="vuejs,vite"
  >
    Share on Facebook
</ShareNetwork>

Available Networks

• Facebook
• Line
• LinkedIn
• Odnoklassniki
• Pinterest
• Reddit
• Skype
• Telegram
• Twitter
• Viber
• Vk
• Weibo
• Whatsapp
• Custom

Available properties

List of available props to use in the component:

Prop	Data Type	Default	Description
url	String	current	URL to share.
title	String		Sharing title (when available).
description	String		Sharing description (when available).
quote	String		Facebook quote (Facebook only).
hashtags	String		A list of comma-separated hashtags (Twitter and Facebook).
twitter-user	String		Twitter user (Twitter only).
media	String		Url to a media (Pinterest only).
tag	String	"a"	Tag the network component should render.

Facebook only accept one hashtag. If you define multiple hashtags, only the first one will be passed to facebook

Available events

Events that are emitted on the vue $root instance:

Name	Data	Description
share_network_open	Network object, shared url	Fired when a sharing popup is open
share_network_change	Network object, shared url	Fired when the user open a new sharing popup while another is already open
share_network_close	Network object, shared url	Fired when a sharing popup is closed or changed by another popup

You can listen to a vue-social-sharing $root event by using the following code:

Vue.$root.$on('share_network_open', function (network, url) {
  // your event code
});

Events that are emitted on the local vue-social-sharing instance:

Name	Data	Description
open	Network object, shared url	Fired when a sharing popup is open
change	Network object, shared url	Fired when the user open a new sharing popup while another is already open
close	Network object, shared url	Fired when a sharing popup is closed or changed by another popup

You can listen to a ShareNetwork local event by using the following code:

<ShareNetwork @open="open" @change="change" @close="close" />

Note that the share_network_close event will not be fired for the WhatsApp, SMS and Email sharers.

Extending the network list

In version 3.x you can extend and override the list of available networks. You can see a working example of the feature in the examples/index.js file:

import Vue from 'vue'
import VueSocialSharing from '@/vue-social-sharing'

Vue.use(VueSocialSharing, {
  networks: {
    fakeblock: {
      sharer: 'https://fakeblock.com/share?url=@url&title=@title',
      type: 'popup'
    }
  }
})

new Vue({
  el: '#app',
})

You can choose between two behavior type while defining a custom network:

Type	Effect
popup	Open the sharing link in a new popup
direct	Open the sharing link directly (suitable for mobile apps sharing, emails, sms, ...)

Extending the network list in Nuxt

You can extend the list of available networks directly in your nuxt.config.js file:

modules: [
  ['vue-social-sharing/nuxt', {
    networks: {
      fakeblock: {
        sharer: 'https://fakeblock.com/share?url=@url&title=@title',
        type: 'popup'
      }
    }
  }],
]

Feature request

Feel free to open an issue to ask for a new social network support.

Changelog

Detailed changes for each release can be found in CHANGELOG.md.

Issues

Please make sure to read the Issue Reporting Checklist before opening an issue. Issues not conforming to the guidelines may be closed immediately.

Contribution

Please make sure to read the Contributing Guide before making a pull request.

License

MIT

Changelog

3.0.0-beta.3 (2020-05-17)

• Make ShareNetwork component tree shakable
• Fix IOS SMS sharing link
• Update Whatsapp sharing link

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