vulcan-social-share

An ultra simple button to share posts to social media (Facebook & Twitter) 🗣️

Note: This package is for Vulcan 1.0.0, running with GraphQL.

Install

Clone this repo in your vulcan's /packages folder.

Open the .meteor/packages file of your app and add at the end of the Feature packages section: xavcz:vulcan-social-share

In your custom package, edit the package.js file and add xavcz:vulcan-social-share as a dependency, near by the other vulcan:xxx packages.

Sweet! You're now ready to use this package for your custom components!

How to use?

Let's say you have a custom component which has access to a post document, given as a React prop.

// in the render of your custom component
<Components.SocialButton type="facebook" post={post} /> // facebook share

<Components.SocialButton type="twitter" post={post} /> // twitter share

<Components.SocialButton type="linkedin" post={post} /> // linkedin share

// you can also give it your own styling if you don't like the current styles
<Components.SocialButton type="twitter" post={post} className="my-awesome-styling" />

More social services? Stats on how many shares?

If you want more social services, feel free to open a pull request and add your modifications. I would be glad to add more services! 😃

As we use GraphQL now, we could easily extend the vulcan schema with some fields querying Facebook / Twitter / xxx API to get insights on these posts (how many shares? how many likes? ...). If you are interested in that, open a pull request! If you don't know how to, come by the vulcan slack chatroom and ping me, I'll guide you 👍