React Bootstrap Extended

A version of React Bootstrap which accepts props that add Bootstrap's utility classes

Quick reference

import { Panel } from 'react-bootstrap-extended';

// in your render() method
return (<Panel textUppercase textDanger>
  This panel has the
  <pre>text-uppercase</pre> and <pre>text-danger</pre>
  classes applied to it.
</Panel>);

Motivation

At their best, React components expose simple, clean and statically-typed interfaces (via propTypes) that effectively hide their internal complexity. However, these components often are not specifically tailored to our needs, and we resort to the use of classNames (and style) to augment their capabilities.

classNames are problematic because they are strings with absolutely no validation.

In React Bootstrap (which is the best set of web building blocks, bar none), I often find myself adding Bootstrap utility classes to existing components, e.g.

<Button className="pull-right">Click Me!</Button>

Some disadvantages to this method include:

1. It is more difficult to statically analyze and quickly examine. For example, pul-right may sneak through code review. In particular, Flow and Typescript are of no help here.
2. It is difficult to distinguish one-off classes (e.g. className="my-login-button") from global classes. This prevents code reuse: another developer will not know that they can re-use the pull-right class and instead, will write that CSS themselves.

This package brings that static typing to bootstrap utility classes in a fully flow-compatible way.

API

This package exposes all of the original bootstrap components, and utils, and wraps the appropriate ones.

Full list of props and utility classes

The keys in this object are the prop names. The values are the classes applied.

{
  "textMuted": "text-muted",
  "textPrimary": "text-primary",
  "textSuccess": "text-success",
  "textInfo": "text-info",
  "textWarning": "text-warning",
  "textDanger": "text-danger",
  "bgPrimary": "bg-primary",
  "bgSuccess": "bg-success",
  "bgInfo": "bg-info",
  "bgWarning": "bg-warning",
  "bgDanger": "bg-danger",
  "pullLeft": "pull-left",
  "pullRight": "pull-right",
  "navbarLeft": "navbar-left",
  "navbarRight": "navbar-right",
  "centerBlock": "center-block",
  "clearfix": "clearfix",
  "invisible": "invisible",
  "srOnly": "sr-only",
  "srOnlyFocusable": "sr-only sr-only-focusable",
  "textHide": "text-hide",
  "visibleXsBlock": "visible-xs-block",
  "visibleXsInline": "visible-xs-inline",
  "visibleXsInlineBlock": "visible-xs-inline-block",
  "hiddenXs": "hidden-xs",
  "visibleSmBlock": "visible-sm-block",
  "visibleSmInline": "visible-sm-inline",
  "visibleSmInlineBlock": "visible-sm-inline-block",
  "hiddenSm": "hidden-sm",
  "visibleMdBlock": "visible-md-block",
  "visibleMdInline": "visible-md-inline",
  "visibleMdInlineBlock": "visible-md-inline-block",
  "hiddenMd": "hidden-md",
  "visibleLgBlock": "visible-lg-block",
  "visibleLgInline": "visible-lg-inline",
  "visibleLgInlineBlock": "visible-lg-inline-block",
  "hiddenLg": "hidden-lg",
  "visiblePrintBlock": "visible-print-block",
  "visiblePrintInline": "visible-print-inline",
  "visiblePrintInlineBlock": "visible-print-inline-block",
  "hiddenPrint": "hidden-print",
  "textLeft": "text-left",
  "textCenter": "text-center",
  "textRight": "text-right",
  "textJustify": "text-justify",
  "textNowrap": "text-nowrap",
  "textLowercase": "text-lowercase",
  "textUppercase": "text-uppercase",
  "textCapitalize": "text-capitalize",
  "initialism": "initialism"
}

My favorite bootstrap classes are omitted!

I omitted classes like show, hidden, caret and close because they are way too generic and will conflict with existing props.

I omitted classes like lead, blockquote-reverse, etc. because they are too component-specific.

The existing pullRight and pullLeft props don't work on DropdownButton, SplitButton, Dropdown and Nav!

There are a few components that use the same props (pullRight and pullLeft). This is a known bug, and a fix is planned for an upcoming release.

Note that for some components, such as for Badges, the overloaded pullRight prop has the same effect.

TODO

• Expose an easy way of adding props for classes you custom-defined
• Add more tests
• Flow bindings

Contributing

Please, feel free to reach out and contribute! robert.balicki@gmail.com