react-async-hoc

Load 3rd party scripts and styles from a url in a higher order component

Installation

yarn add react-async-hoc

What's it do

This is a simple little higher-order component (HOC) for loading scripts from a url and giving it to you in props instead of window. Some 3rd party vendors don't make npm packages for their scripts & you must load them from a url. This really sucks, but it's usually to comply with regulations (Stripe.js, ReCaptcha, etc.) For example, with Stripe, instead of adding a script tag, you can use this & then get window.Stripe as a prop. For styles, this might be useful if you're using a 3rd party package that comes with CSS but you prefer CSS-in-JS. You can also return a method (or a promisified method) instead of the whole global object. Yay modularity & lazy loading!

Usage

Stick it around your component that needs to load the url

Example:

import withAsync from 'react-async-hoc';
const statelessComponent = (props) => {
  const {stripe} = props;
  // undefined if the script hasn't loaded yet
  if (!stripe) {
    return <Loading/>
  }
 
  onEventHandler = () => {
    stripe.stealMoney();
}
  return <div onClick={onEventHandler}>I can haz?</div>
}
 
const stripeCb = () => {
  const stripe = window.Stripe;
  stripe.setPublishableKey(stripeKey);
  return {
    stripe,
    // example of returning a promisified method when the API doesn't follow a node standard callback
    createToken: (fields) => new Promise((resolve) => {
      stripe.card.createToken(fields, (status, response) => {
        resolve(response);
      })
    })
  };
};
 
return withAsync({'https://js.stripe.com/v2/': stripeCb});

API

withAsync(fetchScripts, fetchStyles)

• fetchScripts: An object containing all the scripts you want to fetch. If you don't know this until runtime, have the parent component pass in a fetchScripts property. Pass in as many scripts as you want to load.
  • key: the url of the script to fetch
  • value: the callback to run one that script has been loaded
• fetchStyles: Identical to fetchScripts, but for loading CSS.

License

MIT