MagicBell React SDK

This package contains React components to build a notification inbox for your site powered by MagicBell. Feel free to explore using our Playground

Quick Start

shell
npm i @magicbell/magicbell-react
# or
yarn add @magicbell/magicbell-react

jsx
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MagicBell, { FloatingNotificationInbox } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

ReactDOM.render(
  
    {(props) => }
  ,
  document.body,
);

MagicBell

The MagicBell component is the default export of this package and is the root component for building a notification inbox. It initializes a connection to the MagicBell server, renders a bell icon with the number of unseen notifications and keeps the data updated in real time.

jsx
import MagicBell, { FloatingNotificationInbox } from "@magicbell/magicbell-react";

function MyComponent({ user }) {
  return (
    
      {(props) => (
        
      )}
    
  );
}

These are all the properties accepted by this component.

Children function

This component expects a children function. This is how you render whatever you want to based on the state of the MagicBell.

You can use the standard notification inbox:

javascript
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MagicBell from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

ReactDOM.render(, document.body);

Or the standard inbox with basic customizations (see NotificationInbox):

javascript
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MagicBell, { NotificationInbox } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

ReactDOM.render(
  
    {() => }
  ,
  document.body,
);

Or use your own:

javascript
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MagicBell from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

ReactDOM.render(
  
    {({ launcherRef, isOpen, toggle }) => (
      
    )}
  ,
  document.body,
);

The MagicBell component does not render the component returned by the children function by default, only the bell is rendered. When the bell is clicked, the child component is toggled. This behaviour can be changed using the defaultIsOpen flag.

As shown above, the children function gets a function to manually toggle the notification inbox. You can access the notifications store through MagicBellContext or using the useMagicBellContext hook.

javascript
import { useMagicBellContext } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';
const { rootStore } = useMagicBellContext();

Tip: Initialize a MagicBell instance with a custom stores definition to render an inbox with two or more filtered lists:

javascript
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MagicBell, { NotificationList } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

ReactDOM.render(
  
    {(props) => (
      <>
        
        
      
    )}
  ,
  document.body,
);

MagicBellProvider

The MagicBellProvider component is the main component for building a custom notification inbox. It initializes a connection to magicbell.io, creates a MagicBellContext and keeps the list of notifications updated in real time.

This is a headless component.

javascript
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { MagicBellProvider } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

ReactDOM.render(
  
    
  ,
  document.body,
);

MagicBellProvider creates a React context object, so now you can access the MagicBellContext anywhere in your application.

These are all the properties accepted by this component.

NotificationInbox

The NotificationInbox component renders a header, a footer and an infinite scroll list of notifications.

These are all the properties accepted by this component.

If the store wasn't fetched previously, this component will fetch the first page on first render.

Example: an inbox using tabs and custom stores:

javascript
const stores = [
  { id: 'default', defaultQueryParams: {} },
  { id: 'unread', defaultQueryParams: { read: true } },
  { id: 'billing', defaultQueryParams: { categories: ['billing'] } },
];

// can list all stores, but doesn't need to
const tabs = [
  { storeId: 'default', label: 'Latest' },
  { storeId: 'unread', label: 'Archive' },
  { storeId: 'billing', label: 'Billing' },
];


  
;

FloatingNotificationInbox

This component renders a NotificationInbox component in a tooltip. The tooltip is created with popper.

These are all the properties accepted by this component.

NotificationList

The NotificationList component renders an infinite scroll list of notifications. When the user scrolls to the bottom the next page of notifications are fetched and appended to the current array of notifications. By default it renders a ClickableNotification component for each item in the notifications store.

These are all the properties accepted by this component.

If the height property is not provided, then the window scroll will be used.

Example: notification inbox with a custom list item.

ClickableNotification

This component renders the title and content of a notification.

These are all the properties accepted by this component.

IMPORTANT: When a notification is clicked, the notification is marked as read. If you implement your own component, you might also want to mark the notification as read manually. E.g.:

javascript
import React from 'react';
import { useNotification } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

export default function CustomNotification({ notification: data, onClick }) {
  const notification = useNotification(data);
  const handleClick = () => {
    notification.markAsRead();
    onClick(notification);
  };

  return 
{notification.title}
;
}

NotificationContent

This component renders the notification's content, by injecting the notification content as HTML. As the notification content comes from a safe source - your server - we do not sanitize the content. If you need to sanitize content - because the notification contains user generated info - you'd need to do so when creating the notification on your backend.

These are all the properties accepted by this component.

TIP: If the content has a time tag with the datetime attribute, the content of this tag will be replaced with a relative time. For example, <time datetime="2021-06-10T03:00:00Z">on Jun 10</time> will be replaced with <time>in 3 months</time>.

NotificationPreferences

The preferences component enables you to create your own notification preferences page. By default it shows all notification channels and all categories, but it's possible to only show a subset of the available options.

Properties

Show preference for all channels & all categories

jsx
import { MagicBellProvider, NotificationPreferences } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

function Component() {
  return (
    
      
    
  );
}

Show preference for specific channels, for specific categories

jsx
import { MagicBellProvider, NotificationPreferences } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

function Component() {
  return (
    
      
    
  );
}

Invoke a callback when a preference gets updated

jsx
import { MagicBellProvider, NotificationPreferences } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

function Component() {
  return (
    
       alert('preferences updated!')} />
    
  );
}

useMagicBellEvent

This a hook to listen to realtime events.

javascript
import { useMagicBellEvent } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

useMagicBellEvent('notifications.new', showPushNotification);

This is a list of events you can listen to:

useNotifications

Hook to get notifications for the current authenticated user. Returns a NotificationStore.

javascript
import { useNotifications } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

function NotificationsList() {
  const store = useNotifications();

  return (
    

      {store?.notifications.map((notification) => (
        
{notification.title}
      ))}
    
  );
}

You can optionally provide a name for the store you want to get, e.g.:

javascript
import { useNotifications } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';
const store = useNotifications('mentions');

Custom Themes

It is possible to customize the text color, font size and border radius of some elements by providing to the MagicBell component a theme property. This is going to be deep merged with the default theme. Note that the notification unread and unseen definitions inherit properties from notification default style.

This is the definition of the default theme:

javascript
{
  prose: {
    headings: '#0f172a',
    links: '#0f172a',
    bold: '#0f172a',
    hr: '#e2e8f0',
    quotes: '#0f172a',
    quoteBorders: '#e2e8f0',
    captions: '#64748b',
    code: '#0f172a',
    preCode: '#e2e8f0',
    preBg: '#1e293b',
    thBorders: '#cbd5e1',
    tdBorders: '#e2e8f0',
    buttonBorders: '#1e293b',
    buttons: '#0f172a',
    fontMono: 'ui-monospace,SFMono-Regular,Menlo,Monaco,Consolas,"Liberation Mono","Courier New",monospace',
  },
  icon: {
    borderColor: '#3498F4',
    width: '24px',
  },
  header: {
    backgroundColor: '#3498F4',
    backgroundOpacity: 1,
    borderRadius: '8px',
    fontFamily: '-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif',
    fontSize: '14px',
    fontWeight: 'inherit',
    textColor: 'white',
    textAlign: 'left',
    textTransform: 'uppercase',
    padding: '16px 24px',
    borderColor: undefined,
  },
  footer: {
    backgroundColor: '#3498F4',
    backgroundOpacity: 1,
    borderRadius: '8px',
    fontFamily: '-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif',
    fontSize: '14px',
    fontWeight: 'inherit',
    textColor: 'white',
    textAlign: 'right',
    textTransform: 'none',
    padding: '16px 24px',
    borderColor: undefined,
  },
  banner: {
    backgroundColor: '#3498F4',
    backgroundOpacity: 0.1,
    textColor: '#000',
    fontFamily: '-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif',
    textAlign: 'left',
    fontSize: '14px',
    boxShadow: 'none',
  },
  unseenBadge: {
    backgroundColor: '#DF4759',
    backgroundOpacity: 1,
    borderRadius: '2px',
    fontFamily: '-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif',
    fontSize: '14px',
    fontWeight: 'inherit',
    textColor: 'white',
    textAlign: 'left',
    textTransform: 'none',
  },
  container: {
    backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF',
    backgroundOpacity: 1,
    borderRadius: '8px',
    fontFamily: '-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif',
    fontWeight: 'inherit',
    fontSize: '14px',
    textAlign: 'left',
    textColor: '#3A424D',
    textTransform: 'none',
    boxShadow: '0px 20px 25px rgba(84, 95, 111, 0.1), 0px 10px 10px rgba(84, 95, 111, 0.04)',
  },
  notification: {
    default: {
      backgroundColor: 'transparent',
      backgroundOpacity: 0,
      borderRadius: '8px',
      fontFamily: '-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif',
      fontSize: '14px',
      fontWeight: 'inherit',
      textColor: '#000',
      textAlign: 'left',
      textTransform: 'none',
      margin: '4px',
      padding: '16px 20px 16px 12px',
      title: {
        fontFamily: 'inherit',
        fontSize: 'inherit',
        fontWeight: 500,
        textColor: 'inherit',
      },
      hover: {
        backgroundColor: '#3498F4',
        backgroundOpacity: 0.1,
      },
      state: {
        color: 'transparent',
      },
    },
    unread: {
      backgroundColor: '#D9E2EF',
      backgroundOpacity: 0.1,
      state: {
        color: '#3498F4',
      },
    },
    unseen: {
      backgroundColor: '#D9E2EF',
      backgroundOpacity: 0.05,
      state: {
        color: '#3498F4',
      },
    },
  },
}

You can override any attribute of this theme. Colors can be expressed in HEX, HSL, HSV or RGB(A).

javascript
import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import MagicBell, { NotificationInbox } from '@magicbell/magicbell-react';

const customTheme = {
  icon: {
    borderColor: 'rgba(160, 30, 120, 0.5)',
  },
  header: {
    borderRadius: '2px',
  },
  footer: {
    borderRadius: '2px',
  },
};

ReactDOM.render(
  
    {() => }
  ,
  document.body,
);

Custom translations

All elements in the inbox can be translated by providing a translations object to the MagicBell component. This includes category labels:

typescript
const customLocale = {
  name: 'en',
  translations: {
    header: {
      title: 'Notifications',
    },
    preferences: {
      categories: { // mapping from slug > label
        billing: 'My Billing',
      },
    },
  },
};

function MyComponent() {
  return (
    
      {(props) => }
    
  );
}

The notification model

The Notification class can be imported from @magicbell/magicbell-react. It implements this interface.

typescript
interface INotification {
  // Attributes
  id: string | null;
  title: string;
  content: string | null;
  category: string | null;
  actionUrl: string;
  customAttributes: any;
  readAt: number | null;
  seenAt: number | null;
  sentAt: number;

  // Getters/setters
  isRead: boolean;
  isSeen: boolean;

  // Read-only properties
  seenAtDate: Dayjs | null;
  sentAtDate: Dayjs;
  readAtDate: Dayjs | null;

  // Methods
  fetch: () => Promise;
  markAsRead: () => Promise;
  markAsUnread: () => Promise;
  delete: () => Promise;
}

seenAtDate

A date representation of the seenAt attribute. It returns an immutable instance of Dayjs. Dayjs exposes an API similar to moment.js.

javascript
notification.seenAtDate.format('DD/MM/YYYY'); // '01/04/2021'
notification.seenAtDate.fromNow(); // 1mo
notification.seenAtDate.to('2021-01-01'); // in 4mo
notification.seenAtDate.add(2, 'day');

readAtDate

A date representation of the readAt attribute. It returns an immutable instance of Dayjs.

sentAtDate

A date representation of the sentAt attribute. It returns an immutable instance of Dayjs.

fetch

Fetches the notification from the magicbell.io server. All fetched attributes are assigned to the current object.

markAsRead

This method makes a POST request to the read notification API endpoint of magicbell.io. It sets the readAt attribute as well.

markAsUnread

This method makes a POST request to the unread notification API endpoint of magicbell.io. It sets the readAt attribute to null as well.

delete

This method makes a DELETE request to the notification API endpoint of magicbell.io. If the notification belongs to a store, it will remove itself from the store.

The notification store

The NotificationStore class implements this interface:

typescript
interface INotificationStore {
  unseenCount: number;
  unreadCount: number;
  total: number;
  perPage: number;
  totalPages: number;
  currentPage: number;
  notifications: Notification[];

  length: number;
  isEmpty: boolean;
  hasNextPage: boolean;

  fetch: (queryParams, options = { reset: false }) => Promise;
  fetchNextPage: (queryParams) => Promise;
  markAllAsRead: () => Promise;
  markAllAsSeen: () => Promise;
}

TIP: You can import this class from @magicbell/magicbell-react. However, you may want to access he notifications store through the MagicBellContext, instead of creating a new instance in your app.

fetch

Fetch notifications from the magicbell server. The pagination data is also updated. The provided query parameters are included in the request to the server.

The response is appended to the current array of notifications, so it can be used as the view model for an infinite scroll list. If you want to reset the collection instead, pass the reset: true option to this method:

js
notifications.fetch({ page: 2 }, { reset: true });

fetchNextPage

This method is simply wrapping the fetch method, sending as a parameter the next page of notifications. You can include query parameters to this method.

create

Create a new notification.

It is equivalent to creating a Notification instance with some attributes, saving the notification to the server, and adding it to the array of items after being successfully created.

markAllAsRead

Makes a POST request to the read notifications API endpoint. It also marks all notifications in the collection as read.

markAllAsSeen

Makes a POST request to the seen notifications API endpoint. It also sets the unseenCount to 0 and marks all notifications in the collection as seen.

remove

Removes the given notification from the items array. It does not make any request to the server. If you want to delete a notification, use the delete method of the notification object instead.