ScoutBar
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⚡️ Overview
It has been observed that users who are familiar with the CMD + K shortcut for searching and performing complex actions within applications like Slack and Workspace by Facebook are able to navigate these apps more efficiently by 21%. This highlights the value of providing users with effective search and navigation tools.
With this in mind, we are excited to introduce Scoutbar - an easy-to-install React component that automates the CMD + K experience. Scoutbar is portable and extensible, making it a convenient solution for improving the search and navigation capabilities of your application. Give your users the ability to quickly find what they are looking for and increase their productivity with Scoutbar.
🔧 Installation
You can easily install this package with yarn or npm:
$ yarn add scoutbar
or
$ npm install scoutbar
✨ Features
🤘 Super easy to install📦 It's tiny, only 400b gzipped🙅♂️ It's got keyboard nav support- And keyboard shortcuts to configure specific actions
🔧 Flexible API- A simple data structure and function helper to customize your experience
💪 Fully tested, typed, and reliable🌍 Works in CommonJS, ESM, and the browser🤓 Handy helpers included🧑 Zero dependencies
📖 Usage
One of the best things about it is that it is as simple as integrating one component. you have scoutbar on your app.
import React from 'react';
import { ScoutBar } from 'scoutbar';
export default function App() {
return (
<div className="App">
<ScoutBar
actions={({ createScoutAction }) => [
createScoutAction({
label: 'Get Started',
description: 'Get started with scoutbar',
href: '/',
}),
]}
/>
</div>
);
}Seeing is believing! There are clear descriptions of each utility, as well as instructions on how to use them, in the documentation.
🍷 Documentation See All
tutorial
Type -> Boolean
Default -> true
Allows you the ability to disable / hide scoutbar tutorial hints. i'e the section that tells users to navigate with the arrows or tabs. e.g
<ScoutBar
tutorial={false}
...
/>noAnimation
Type -> Boolean
Default -> false
Allows you to disable every animation on scoutbar Disables every animations on scoutbar. this is by default true if scoutbar detects that the user has requested that the system minimize the amount of non-essential motion it uses.
<ScoutBar
noAnimation={false}
...
/>theme
Type -> 'light' | 'dark' | 'auto'
Default -> 'light'
Allows you to switch the theme of the scoutbar depending on how you want it. auto switches to the theme of the current system.
<ScoutBar
theme="light"
...
/>acknowledgement
Type -> Boolean
Default -> true
Show the scoutbar acknowledgement logo on the top right of the input bar.
<ScoutBar
acknowledgement={true}
...
/>brandColor
Type -> String
Default -> #000
Allows you to set the official scoutbar brand color. it helps to match the color grade on your application
<ScoutBar
brandColor="red"
...
/>placeholder
Type -> String | String[]
Default -> ['What would you like to do today ?','What do you need?', 'Lets help you navigate'],
Allows you to switch between different placeholder texts or just a single one.
<ScoutBar
placeholder={[
'What products do you need ? ',
'Whats the name of your phone ?'
]}
or
placeholder="What do you need ?"
...
/>revealScoutbar
Type -> boolean
Default -> false
Reveal the scoutbar with an external action. PS forcefully opens the scoutbar
<ScoutBar
revealScoutbar={// your state hook here }
...
/>🤔 Thought Process
- https://defkey.com/what-means/command-k
- https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/2/15475078/slack-keyboard-shortcuts-how-to-guide#:~:text=%E2%8C%98%20%2B%20K%20%2F%20Ctrl%20%2B%20K,to%20jump%20to%20that%20conversation.
Contributing
When contributing to this repository, please first discuss the change you wish to make via an issue. This can be a feature request or a bug report. After a maintainer has triaged your issue, you are welcome to collaborate on a pull request. If your change is small or uncomplicated, you are welcome to open an issue and pull request simultaneously.
Please note we have a code of conduct, please follow it in all your interactions with the project.
Running Scoutbar Locally
A local test environment has been setup for developers that wants to develop and contribute to scoutbar. to start up the dev server do the following
$ yarn install
$ yarn run dev // server running on http://localhost:3008
Linking Scoutbar Locally
Run
$ npm link
This will create a symbolic link in the /usr/local/lib/node_modules/ folder, that contains the global npm packages in the system, the ones installed using npm -g.
npm link scoutbar
Then we run this in the project we want to link scoutbar locally to
🤝 License
MIT © codewonders.dev · GitHub @adenekan41 / codewonders