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@skyra/discord-components-core

Description

Discord message components to easily build and display fake Discord messages on your webpage.

This is an adaptation of wc-discord-message from Danktuary

Upgrading guide

The source code and documentation of this package has been updated for version 4.x of this package. To find out how to upgrade from v3.x to v4.x, please refer to the upgrading guide

Features

  • Design modelled after Discord itself
  • Comfy and compact mode support
  • Dark and light themes support
  • Set the message author’s username, avatar (use defaults or provide your own), role color, and “bot” tag status
  • Display fake user, role, and channel mentions
  • Complete embed support
  • Uses Lit Element to support all browsers and environments
  • Simple syntax!

Usage

The syntax is kept fairly simple. Here’s a basic example of a regular conversation:

<discord-messages>
  <discord-message
    >Hey guys, I'm new here! Glad to be able to join you all!</discord-message
  >
  <discord-message author="Dawn" avatar="red">
    Hi, I'm new here too!
  </discord-message>
  <discord-message
    author="Favna"
    avatar="https://github.com/favna.png"
    roleColor="#ff0000"
  >
    Hey, <discord-mention>User</discord-mention> and
    <discord-mention>Dawn</discord-mention>. Welcome to our server!
  </discord-message>
</discord-messages>

[!IMPORTANT]

For further examples on how to use components, please refer to the Stackblitz examples linked below. Choose the framework you are using and click on the “Open in Stackblitz” button to see the code and how it renders in the browser.

Using the Discord font

This library can use the Discord font if you load it into your project. You can do so by including the CSS below:

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Whitney';
  src: url('https://cdn.skyra.pw/whitney-font/v2/Book.woff') format('woff');
  font-weight: 400;
}


@font-face {
  font-family: 'Whitney';
  src: url('https://cdn.skyra.pw/whitney-font/v2/Medium.woff') format('woff');
  font-weight: 500;
}


@font-face {
  font-family: 'Whitney';
  src: url('https://cdn.skyra.pw/whitney-font/v2/Semibold.woff') format('woff');
  font-weight: 600;
}


@font-face {
  font-family: 'Whitney';
  src: url('https://cdn.skyra.pw/whitney-font/v2/Bold.woff') format('woff');
  font-weight: 700;
}

Integrations

Angular

Important Notes

You need to import the CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA from @angular/core and add it to the schemas array of your module or component decorator for the module or component using custom elements. This is to ensure that Angular knows custom elements are used in this module or component.

import { CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA, Component } from '@angular/core';


@Component({
  schemas: [CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA]
})
export class AppComponent {}
Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

React

Important Notes

React is currently the only library among the “big” libraries for frontend development that does not fully support custom elements / webcomponents yet (see this React documentation page for more info). For this reason we ship the package @skyra/discord-components-react.

We sincerely hope that this situation will improve in the future, but no one knows what their plans are.

Vite
Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

Create React App
Important Notes

Create React App is no longer the recommended way to start with a React app as per React’s own documentation. We very strongly recommend using Vite instead.

NextJS
Live Demo Pages Directory

Open in Stackblitz

Live Demo App Directory

Open in Stackblitz

Known limitations

  1. All the React components will only render on the client, they are bundled with the 'use client'; header that NextJS expects for CSR only components. This is because there is currently no good way to render webcomponents on the server. When @lit-labs/nextjs adds support for the app directory we can revisit this limitation.

  2. When using the app directory we are not able to get profiles working. We are open to suggestions on how to fix this, ideally through a pull request to [https://github.com/skyra-project/discord-components-implementations/tree/main/templates/nextjs-ts].

Docusaurus
Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

Vue

Vite
Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

Configuration

When using Vue 3 with Vite you need to setup Vite to recognise the custom components. You can do that with the following code in your vite.config.ts:

import vue from '@vitejs/plugin-vue';
import { defineConfig } from 'vite';


export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    vue({
      template: {
        compilerOptions: {
          isCustomElement: (tag) => tag.startsWith('discord-')
        }
      }
    })
  ]
});
Nuxt
Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

Configuration

When using Nuxt 3 you need to setup Vite to recognise the custom components. You can do that with the following code in your nuxt.config.ts:

export default defineNuxtConfig({
  devtools: { enabled: true },
  vue: {
    compilerOptions: {
      isCustomElement: (tag) => tag.startsWith('discord-')
    }
  }
});

Astro

Important Notes

Because it is possible to use different integrations in an Astro project you can also reference the other examples here. The live demo linked below uses the Lit integration for Astro as well as the React integration for Astro.

Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

Solid

Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

Svelte

Vite
Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

Sveltekit
Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

Qwik

Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

Preact

Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

HTMX

Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

No Framework

Important Notes

Note that while it is entirely possible to use this library without a framework, you will still need a bundler such as vite. This is because this library exposes ES modules which need to be bundled into a format that the browser can support. The live demo below uses Vite.

Live Demo

Open in Stackblitz

Notes

TypeScript module augments

This library uses a custom object on the browser window for configuration. Under normal circumstances by simply importing the package (with import @skyra/discord-components-core) the module augmentations should also be loaded. If for whatever reason this does not happen, then you can define them manually yourself. You can do so with the following code snippet:

import type { DiscordMessageOptions } from '@skyra/discord-components-core';


declare global {
  // eslint-disable-next-line no-var
  var $discordMessage: DiscordMessageOptions | undefined;
}

Avatar shortcuts

The current avatar shortcut strings available are “blue” (default), “gray”, “green”, “orange”, and “red”. These shortcuts map to the following image links:

{
  "blue": "https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/654503812593090602/665721745466195978/blue.png",
  "gray": "https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/654503812593090602/665721746569166849/gray.png",
  "green": "https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/654503812593090602/665721748431306753/green.png",
  "orange": "https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/654503812593090602/665721750201434138/orange.png",
  "red": "https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/654503812593090602/665721752277483540/red.png"
}

If you want to add to or override the shortcuts, you can set them via globalThis.$discordMessage.avatars or by using the setConfig function (import { setConfig } from '@skyra/discord-components-core').

globalThis.$discordMessage = {
  avatars: {
    default: 'blue',
    skyra: 'https://github.com/NM-EEA-Y.png',
    djs: require('./assets/discord-avatar-djs.png') // You can use require syntax as well
  }
};
import { setConfig } from '@skyra/discord-components-core';


setConfig({
  avatars: {
    default: 'blue',
    skyra: 'https://github.com/NM-EEA-Y.png',
    djs: require('./assets/discord-avatar-djs.png') // You can use require syntax as well
  }
});

Profile shortcuts

Sometimes you’ll want to use the same message data across multiple messages. You can do so by providing an object of profiles in globalThis.$discordMessage.profiles or by using the setConfig function (import { setConfig } from '@skyra/discord-components-core').

globalThis.$discordMessage = {
  profiles: {
    skyra: {
      author: 'Skyra',
      avatar: 'https://github.com/NM-EEA-Y.png',
      bot: true,
      verified: true,
      roleColor: '#1e88e5'
    },
    favna: {
      author: 'Favna',
      avatar: 'https://github.com/favna.png',
      roleColor: '#ff0000'
    }
  }
};
import { setConfig } from '@skyra/discord-components-core';


setConfig({
  profiles: {
    skyra: {
      author: 'Skyra',
      avatar: 'https://github.com/NM-EEA-Y.png',
      bot: true,
      verified: true,
      roleColor: '#1e88e5'
    },
    favna: {
      author: 'Favna',
      avatar: 'https://github.com/favna.png',
      roleColor: '#ff0000'
    }
  }
});

And then in your code:

<discord-messages>
  <discord-message profile="skyra">
    Welcome to our server, <discord-mention>Favna</discord-mention>!
  </discord-message>
  <discord-message profile="favna">Hey, glad to be here!</discord-message>
</discord-messages>

Theming

Each of the components accepts the standard HTML properties for passing styling, such as class for passing CSS classes (JSS / CSS / SCSS etc.) or style to pass inline style.

You can also pass your own custom HTML tags, for example set a data-testid to be able to navigate to the component in your unit tests / end-to-end tests

Components notes

Below are notes for a few specific components.

discord-messages component

This is a wrapper for any child <discord-message> component. It must be used in order for messages to display properly.

discord-mention component

  1. If the default slot is left empty, the mention will be rendered as 'User', 'Role', or 'channel’, depending on the type prop given.

  2. If you want to customize the color of a role type mention then you can pass the color as a hex code in the style property. For example:

<discord-message>
  <discord-mention type="role" style="--discord-mention-color: #70f0b4;"
    >Green</discord-mention
  >
  <discord-mention type="role" style="--discord-mention-color: #ff0000;"
    >Red</discord-mention
  >
</discord-message>

discord-embed component

An embed that can be attached to the end of your messages. The default slot is used for the embed’s description. The footer slot is used for the footer text.

To ensure the embed gets displayed correctly inside your message, be sure to give it the proper slot attribute.

<discord-message>
  Hi, I'm part of the normal message content.
  <discord-embed slot="embeds" color="#ff0000">
    Hi, I'm part of the embed message content.
  </discord-embed>
</discord-message>

discord-embed-fields component

A wrapper for any child <discord-embed-fields> components. Must be used in order for fields to display properly. To ensure the embed fields gets displayed correctly inside your embed, be sure to give it the proper slot attribute.

<discord-message>
  <discord-embed slot="embeds">
    Hi, I'm part of the embed message content.
    <discord-embed-fields slot="fields">
      <!-- Embed fields go here -->
    </discord-embed-fields>
  </discord-embed>
</discord-message>

discord-embed-field component

At least 2 consecutive fields need to be marked as inline in order for them to actually display next to each other. The maximum amount of inline fields is 3, and drops to 2 if an embed thumbnail is used.

<discord-message>
  <discord-embed slot="embeds">
    Hi, I'm part of the embed message content.
    <discord-embed-fields slot="fields">
      <discord-embed-field fieldTitle="Inline field" inline>
        Field content.
      </discord-embed-field>
      <discord-embed-field fieldTitle="Inline field" inline>
        Field content.
      </discord-embed-field>
    </discord-embed-fields>
  </discord-embed>
</discord-message>

Screenshots

Dark Mode

A normal conversation

Compact mode

With an embed

Light Mode

A normal conversation

Compact mode

With an embed