react-head

Asynchronous SSR-ready Document Head management for React 16.3+

Motivation

This module allows you to define document.head tags anywhere in your component hierarchy. The motivations are similar to react-helmet in that you may only have the information for certain tags contextually deep in your component hiearchy. There are no dependencies (it does not use react-side-effects) and it should work fine with asynchronous rendering; the only requirement is React 16.3+.

Installation

npm i react-head

yarn add react-head

How it works

You wrap your App with <HeadProvider />
From the server, you pass headTags[] array to <HeadProvider />
Then call renderToStaticMarkup(headTags) and include in the <head /> block of your server template
To insert head tags within your app, just render one of <Title />, <Meta />, <Style />, <Link />, and <Base /> components as often as needed.

On the server, the tags are collected in the headTags[] array, and then on the client the server-generated tags are removed in favor of the client-rendered tags so that SPAs still work as expected (e.g. in cases where subsequent page loads need to change the head tags).

You can view a fully working sample app in the /example folder.

Server setup

Wrap your app with <HeadProvider /> on the server, using a headTags[] array to pass down as part of your server-rendered payload. When rendered, the component mutates this array to contain the tags.

import * as React from 'react';
import { renderToString } from 'react-dom/server';
import { HeadProvider } from 'react-head';
import App from './App';

// ... within the context of a request ...

const headTags = []; // mutated during render so you can include in server-rendered template later
const app = renderToString(
  <HeadProvider headTags={headTags}>
    <App />
  </HeadProvider>
);

res.send(`
  <!doctype html>
    <head>
      ${renderToString(headTags)}
    </head>
    <body>
      <div id="root">${app}</div>
    </body>
  </html>
`);

Client setup

There is nothing special required on the client, just render one of head tag components whenever you want to inject a tag in the <head />.

import * as React from 'react';
import { HeadProvider, Title, Link, Meta } from 'react-head';

const App = () => (
  <HeadProvider>
    <div className="Home">
      <Title>Title of page</Title>
      <Link rel="canonical" href="http://jeremygayed.com/" />
      <Meta name="example" content="whatever" />
      // ...
    </div>
  </HeadProvider>
);

Contributing

Please follow the contributing docs

tizmagik / react-head

readme