# react-file-viewer

**Repository Path**: sgout/react-file-viewer

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: react-file-viewer
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-06-28
- **Last Updated**: 2024-04-26

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## README


# react-file-viewer

Extendable file viewer for web

## Supported file formats:

 - Images: png, jpeg, gif, bmp, including 360-degree images
 - pdf
 - csv
 - xslx
 - docx
 - Video: mp4, webm
 - Audio: mp3


## Usage

Note this module works best with react 16+.  If you are using React < 16 you will likely need to use version 0.5. `npm install react-file-viewer@0.5.0`.

There is one main React component, `FileViewer`, that takes the following props:

`fileType` string: type of resource to be shown (one of the supported file
formats, eg `'png'`). Passing in an unsupported file type will result in displaying
an `unsupported file type` message (or a custom component).

`filePath` string: the url of the resource to be shown by the FileViewer.

`onError` function [optional]: function that will be called when there is an error in the file
viewer fetching or rendering the requested resource. This is a place where you can
pass a callback for a logging utility.

`errorComponent` react element [optional]: A component to render in case of error
instead of the default error component that comes packaged with react-file-viewer.

`unsupportedComponent` react element [optional]: A component to render in case
the file format is not supported.

To use a custom error component, you might do the following:

```
// MyApp.js
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import logger from 'logging-library';
import FileViewer from 'react-file-viewer';
import { CustomErrorComponent } from 'custom-error';

const file = 'http://example.com/image.png'
const type = 'png'

class MyComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <FileViewer
        fileType={type}
        filePath={file}
        errorComponent={CustomErrorComponent}
        onError={this.onError}/>
    );
  }

  onError(e) {
    logger.logError(e, 'error in file-viewer');
  }
}
```

## Development

There is a demo app built into this library that can be used for development
purposes. It is by default served via webpack-dev-server.

### To start demo app

`make start` will start the demo app served by webpack-dev-server

### Testing

Tests use Jest and Enzyme.

Run tests with:

```
make test
```

This starts Jest in watch mode. To run a particular test file, while in watch mode
hit `p` and then type the path or name of the file.

Some tests use snapshots. If intended changes to a component cause snapshot tests
to fail, snapshot files need to be updated (stored in `__snapshots__` directories).
To do this run:

```
npm run jest --updateSnapshot
```

### To run the linter

`make lint`

### Extending the file viewer

Adding supported file types is easy (and pull requests are welcome!). Say, for
example, you want to add support for `.rtf` files. First, you need to create a
"driver" for that file type. A driver is just a component that is capable of
rendering that file type. (See what exists now in `src/components/drivers`.) After
you've created the driver component and added it to `src/components/drivers`, you
simply need to import the component into `file-vewer.jsx` and add a switch clause
for `rtf` to the `getDriver` method. Ie:

```
case 'rtf':
  return RtfViewer;
```

## Roadmap

- Remove ignored linting rules and fix them