From 2706a137a042b4bf932b0ace9934914f290605f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jacky Zhao <j.zhao2k19@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2023 03:18:31 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] guide to creating components
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@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@
In effect, components allow you to write a JavaScript function that takes some data and produces HTML as an output. **While Quartz doesn't use React, it uses the same component concept to allow you to easily express layout templates in your Quartz site.**
-> [!hint]
-> For those coming from React, Quartz components are different from React components in that it only uses JSX for templating and layout. Hooks like `useEffect`, `useState`, etc. are not rendered.
-
## An Example Component
### Constructor
@@ -90,11 +87,11 @@
```tsx {6-10} title="quartz/components/YourComponent.tsx"
export default (() => {
function YourComponent() {
- return <p>Example Component</p>
+ return <p class="red-text">Example Component</p>
}
YourComponent.css = `
- p {
+ p.red-text {
color: red;
}
`
@@ -124,14 +121,114 @@
### Scripts and Interactivity
-- listening for the nav event
- - best practice: anything here should unmount any existing event handlers to prevent memory leaks
+What about interactivity? Suppose you want to add an-click handler for example. Like the `.css` property on the component, you can also declare `.beforeDOMLoaded` and `.afterDOMLoaded` properties that are strings that contain the script.
-### Using a Component
+```tsx title="quartz/components/YourComponent.tsx"
+export default (() => {
+ function YourComponent() {
+ return <button id="btn">Click me</button>
+ }
-#### In a layout
+ YourComponent.beforeDOM = `
+ console.log("hello from before the page loads!")
+ `
-#### In the configuration
+ YourComponent.afterDOM = `
+ document.getElementById('btn').onclick = () => {
+ alert('button clicked!')
+ }
+ `
+ return YourComponent
+}) satisfies QuartzComponentConstructor
+
+```
+
+> [!hint]
+> For those coming from React, Quartz components are different from React components in that it only uses JSX for templating and layout. Hooks like `useEffect`, `useState`, etc. are not rendered and other properties that accept functions like `onClick` handlers will not work. Instead, do it using a regular JS script that modifies the DOM element directly.
+
+As the names suggest, the `.beforeDOMLoaded` scripts are executed *before* the page is done loading so it doesn't have access to any elements on the page. This is mostly used to prefetch any critical data.
+
+The `.afterDOMLoaded` script executes once the page has been completely loaded. This is a good place to setup anything that should last for the duration of a site visit (e.g. getting something saved from local storage).
+
+If you need to create an `afterDOMLoaded` script that depends on *page specific* elements that may change when navigating to a new page, you can listen for the `"nav"` event that gets fired whenever a page loads (which may happen on navigation if [[SPA Routing]] is enabled).
+
+```ts
+document.addEventListener("nav", () => {
+ // do page specific logic here
+ // e.g. attach event listeners
+ const toggleSwitch = document.querySelector("#switch") as HTMLInputElement
+ toggleSwitch.removeEventListener("change", switchTheme)
+ toggleSwitch.addEventListener("change", switchTheme)
+})
+```
+
+It is best practice to also unmount any existing event handlers to prevent memory leaks.
+#### Importing Code
+Of course, it isn't always practical (nor desired!) to write your code as a string literal in the component.
+
+Quartz supports importing component code through `.inline.ts` files.
+
+```tsx title="quartz/components/YourComponent.tsx"
+// @ts-ignore: typescript doesn't know about our inline bundling system
+// so we need to silence the error
+import script from "./scripts/graph.inline"
+
+export default (() => {
+ function YourComponent() {
+ return <button id="btn">Click me</button>
+ }
+
+ YourComponent.afterDOM = script
+ return YourComponent
+}) satisfies QuartzComponentConstructor
+
+```
+
+```ts title="quartz/components/scripts/graph.inline.ts"
+// any imports here are bundled for the browser
+import * as d3 from "d3"
+
+document.getElementById('btn').onclick = () => {
+ alert('button clicked!')
+}
+```
+
+Additionally, like what is shown in the example above, you can import packages in `.inline.ts` files. This will be bundled by Quartz and included in the actual script.
+### Using a Component
+After creating your custom component, re-export it in `quartz/components/index.ts`:
+
+```ts title="quartz/components/index.ts" {4,10}
+import ArticleTitle from "./ArticleTitle"
+import Content from "./pages/Content"
+import Darkmode from "./Darkmode"
+import YourComponent from "./YourComponent"
+
+export {
+ ArticleTitle,
+ Content,
+ Darkmode,
+ YourComponent
+}
+```
+
+Then, you can use it like any other component in `quartz.layout.ts` via `Component.YourComponent()`. See the [[configuration#Layout|layout]] section for more details.
+
+As Quartz components are just functions that return React components, you can compositionally use them in other Quartz components.
+
+```tsx title="quartz/components/AnotherComponent.tsx"
+import YourComponent from "./YourComponent"
+
+export default (() => {
+ function AnotherComponent(props: QuartzComponentProps) {
+ return <div>
+ <p>It's nested!</p>
+ <YourComponent {...props} />
+ </div>
+ }
+
+ return AnotherComponent
+}) satisfies QuartzComponentConstructor
+```
> [!hint]
> Look in `quartz/components` for more examples of components in Quartz as reference for your own components!
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