UI-Extensions

UI-Extensions contains the building blocks for the SCM-Manager ui extension system.

Extensions and ExtensionPoints

Extension points are spots in the ui, where the ui could be extended or modified. An extension point requires a unique name and is represented as React component.

Example:

<div>
  <h2>Repository</h2>
  <ExtensionPoint name="repo.details" />
</div>

We can register an extension, in the form of a React component, to the "repo.details" extension point, by using the binder:

import { binder } from "@scm-manager/ui-extensions";

const Rtfm = () => {
  return <strong>Read the f*** manual</strong>;
};

binder.bind("repo.details", Rtfm);

The ExtensionPoint will now find and render the Rtfm component.

Render multiple extensions

An extension point can render multiple extensions at one. This can be done with the renderAll parameter:

<div>
  <h2>Repository</h2>
  <ExtensionPoint name="repo.details" renderAll={true} />
</div>

Now we can bind multiple components to the same extension point.

const Rtfm = () => {
  return <strong>Read the f*** manual</strong>;
};

const RealyRtfm = () => {
  return <h1>Read the f*** manual</h1>;
};

binder.bind("repo.details", Rtfm);
binder.bind("repo.details", RealyRtfm);

Passing props to extensions

An extension point author can pass React properties to the extensions. This can be done with the props property:

<div>
  <ExtensionPoint name="repo.title" props={{name: "myrepo"}} />
</div>

The extension becomes now the defined react properties as input:

const Title = (props) => {
  return <h1>Repository {props.name}</h1>;
};

binder.bind("repo.title", Title);

Defaults

An ExtensionPoint is able to render a default, if no extension is bound to the ExtensionPoint. The default can be passed as React children:

<ExtensionPoint name="repo.title">
  <h1>Default Title</h1>
</ExtensionPoint>

Conditional rendering

An extension can specify a predicate function to the binder. This function becomes the props of the ExtensionPoint as input and only if the predicate returns true the extension will be rendered:

const GitAvatar = () => {
  return <img src="/git/avatar.png" alt="git avatar" />;
};

binder.bind("repo.avatar", GitAvatar, (props) => props.type === "git");

<ExtensionPoint name="repo.avatar" props={type: "git"} />