Uniweb CMS is a web engine with advanced built-in intelligence to manage rich data and build websites from templates. The logic that is necessary for creating the user interface of a website exists at the level of web components that are powered by the web engine.
The integration of custom components into a Uniweb system is done via Webpack Federated Modules. The Uniweb Module SDK is a software development kit that provides a thin wrapper around the underlying Uniweb JavaScript engine. The SDK provides a tailored and consistent API layer for the underlying web engine.
The main building blocks provided by the engine fall into two categories: Custom React Hooks and General purpose components.
- useLoadProfileBody
- useLinkedProfileFilterState
- useGetProfile
- Asset
- Image
- Link
By using the SDK, a component creator is freed from having to implement low-level functionality or deal with complex backend requests. Creating a link to a page or fetching an asset become simple tasks when using the SDK. Similarly, when using the Custom React Hooks, a component creator can enjoy a simplified management of rendering states for common use cases.
A Uniweb Component is a React JS component whose props are 4 objets: profile, block, page , and website. The profile object represents the source data of a website. The block object contains the settings for the component, which is considered a building block within a webpage. The page object provides information about the current webpage being rendered as a sequence of buildign blocks. Finally, the website provides information about the entire website. Most components only need to work with the profile and block props. Learn more about Uniweb components
You can install Uniweb Module SDK via npm by running the following command:
npm install @uniwebcms/module-sdkOr via yarn:
yarn add @uniwebcms/module-sdkRead the API reference to learn about the components and functions offered by the SDK.
In this example we render a webpage that offers functionality to search, filter and sort project cards linked to a given a source group profile profile. The managing of rendering states is done with the SDK hook useLinkedProfileFilterState, which returns a list of project profiles linked to the source group profile and a function to update their filtering state.
Our goal in this example is to render project cards showing the description of each project, but the returned profile objects only include partial information about each project. In particular, each project profile object has the title and subtitle of the project but not its description. We address this limitation by adding extra logic to fetch the full information of each project profile.
The complete set of sections of a profile are collectively referrer to as the body of the profile. The profile objects obtained from useLinkedProfileFilterState do not include profile body information. They only contain basic information about each profile, such as standard title and subtitle values as well as the complete top section of the profile, which is known as the head of the profile. In this example, the description value is not located in the head section so we need to get the body of the profile to be able to access it.
The body of a profile can be loaded asynchronously when needed with the SDK hook useLoadProfileBody. In this example, we load the body of each project profile so that we can access the description field in the project_description section.
import React from 'react';
import {Link, Image, useLoadProfileBody, useLinkedProfileFilterState} from '@uniwebcms/module-sdk';
import Filter from './filter'; // example component
import Sorter from './sorter'; // example component
import Banner from './banner'; // example component
/**
* Render basic project profile information as a card.
*
* @prop {Profile} project - A project profile.
* @returns {function} - A project renderer.
*/
const Project = ({ project }) => {
let description = '';
// Call the SDK hook to get the full data of a profile so that we can call at() on it to
// get data that is not located in the profile head.
if (useLoadProfileBody(project)) {
// The description field requires the full profile data. Here we can choose to return null if
// hasData is false, or we can set the description to the empty string, render what we have in
// the profile head, and then let the component rerender when the hasData state becomes true.
description = project.at('project_description/description');
}
// The basic profile info is always available from the partial profile data.
const { title, subtitle } = project.getBasicInfo();
return (
<Link
profile={project}
className="h-72 overflow-hidden group hover:bg-gray-50 rounded-xl px-6 py-4"
>
<div className="flex justify-between">
<div className="w-20 h-20 rounded-full overflow-hidden">
<Image profile={project} type="banner" />
</div>
</div>
<div className="text-xl font-medium text-gray-700 truncate mt-5">
{title}
</div>
{subtitle ? (
<div className="text-lg font-normal text-gray-500 truncate mt-2">
{subtitle}
</div>
) : null}
<div
className="text-base text-gray-600 mt-1 line-clamp-3"
title={project.stripTags(description)}
dangerouslySetInnerHTML={{ __html: description }}
></div>
</Link>
);
};
/**
* Render a list of project cards that belong to a given group profile.
*
* @prop {Profile} profile - The main profile containing a list of projects.
* @prop {Profile} page - The current website page.
* @returns {function} - Renderer of a list of project cards.
*/
export default function Projects({ profile, page }) {
// Use the provided custom React hook to get a list of profiles
// that can be filtered and sorted by the user.
const [filter, setFilter] = useLinkedProfileFilterState(profile, 'project');
// Get the list of filtered and sorted projects linked to the group profile.
const { filtered } = filter;
// Use the page of the title as the title of the header image.
const pageTitle = page.getPageTitle();
// Use the banner image of the group profile to decorate the page.
return (
<>
<Banner title={pageTitle} profile={profile} />
<section className="wrapper">
<div className="flex justify-end">
<div className="flex space-x-1 items-center">
<Filter filter={filter} setFilter={setFilter}>
<Filter.Search />
<Filter.Menu />
</Filter>
<Sorter filter={filter} setFilter={setFilter} />
</div>
</div>
<div className="grid lg:grid-cols-3 sm:grid-cols-2 grid-cols-1 mt-20 gap-20">
{filtered.map((project) => {
return <Project key={project.key} project={project} />;
})}
</div>
</section>
</>
);
}Uniweb SDK is licensed under the MIT license. See LICENSE for more information.