<ax-comments> element

<ax-comments> is a standalone web component with minimal set of dependencies (no jQuery!) for implementing an out-of-the-box commenting solution to any web application with an existing backend. It provides all the UI functionalities and ties them to callbacks that let you easily define what you want to do with the data. The library is highly customizable and very easy to integrate thanks to a wide variety of settings.

Features

• Commenting
• Replying (nested comments)
• Editing comments
• Deleting comments
• Upvoting comments
• Uploading attachments
• Hashtags
• Pinging users
• Enabling/disabling functionalities
• Localization
• Time formatting
• Callbacks
• Fully responsive and mobile compatible
• Miscellaneous settings

Demo

http://adanski.github.io/ax-comments/demo/

Quick start

Installation

$ npm install --save ax-comments

Usage

import 'ax-comments/comments-element';

//...

const commentsElement = document.createElement('ax-comments');
commentsElement.options = {
    // ...
    getComments: (onSuccess, onError) => {
        const commentsArray = [{
            id: '1',
            content: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet",
            creatorUserId: "simon.powell",
            creatorDisplayName: "Simon Powell",
            // ...
            createdByAdmin: false,
            createdByCurrentUser: false,
            upvoteCount: 3,
            upvotedByCurrentUser: false,
            isNew: false
        }];
        onSuccess(commentsArray);
    },
    // ...
};

document.body.append(commentsElement);

See full example here.

If you are not using Font Awesome for icons, you should replace the icons with custom images by overriding following options when initializing the library:

spinnerIconURL: '',
noCommentsIconURL: '',
closeIconURL: '',
upvoteIconURL: '',      // Only if upvoting is enabled
replyIconURL: '',       // Only if replying is enabled
uploadIconURL: '',      // Only if attachments are enabled
attachmentIconURL: '',  // Only if attachments are enabled

Documentation

http://adanski.github.io/ax-comments

Maintainers

• adanski

Browser support

Basically every modern browser that supports native web components and shadow dom.

Includes Firefox, Edge, Chrome and probably Safari

Special thanks

<ax-comments> probably wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the outstanding work of the authors of the following packages:

• jquery-comments
• textcomplete
• markdown-toolbar-element

Copyright and license

Code and documentation copyright 2017-2021 Viima Solutions Oy, 2022 adanski.

Code released under the MIT license.