React Desktop is a popular library to bring the native desktop experience to the web. This library provides macOS and Windows OS components. Dialog Component is used to allow the user to create a dialog box. Dialogs inform users about a task and can contain critical information, require decisions, or involve multiple tasks. We can use the following approach in ReactJS to use the React Desktop macOS Dialog Component.
Dialog Props:
- buttons: It is used to set the component buttons.
- horizontalAlignment: It is used to set the horizontal alignment of the content of the component.
- icon: It is used to set the icon element of the component.
- margin: It is used to set the outer margin of the component.
- marginBottom: It is used to set the outer bottom margin of the component.
- marginLeft: It is used to set the outer left margin of the component.
- marginRight: It is used to set the outer right margin of the component.
- marginTop: It is used to set the outer top margin of the component.
- message: It is used to set the component message.
- title: It is used to set the component title.
- verticalAlignment: It is used to set the vertical alignment of the content of the component.
Creating React Application And Installing Module:
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Step 1: Create a React application using the following command:
npx create-react-app foldername
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Step 2: After creating your project folder i.e. foldername, move to it using the following command:
cd foldername
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Step 3: After creating the ReactJS application, Install the required module using the following command:
npm install react-desktop
Project Structure: It will look like the following.
Project Structure
Example: Now write down the following code in the App.js file. Here, App is our default component where we have written our code.
App.js
import React from 'react'import { Dialog, Button } from 'react-desktop/macOs'; export default function App() { return ( <div style={{ display: 'block', width: 400, paddingLeft: 30 }}> <h4>React Desktop macOS Dialog Component</h4> <Dialog style={{ backgroundColor: 'lightblue' }} title="Are you sure want to cancel?" message="Your data will be saved" buttons={[ <Button onClick={() => console.log('Close This Box')}> Cancel </Button>, <Button onClick={() => console.log('Save Data')} color="blue" >Save</Button>, ]} /> </div> ); } |
Step to Run Application: Run the application using the following command from the root directory of the project:
npm start
Output: Now open your browser and go to http://localhost:3000/, you will see the following output:
Reference: https://reactdesktop.js.org/docs/mac-os/dialog
