React Promise Modal

usePromiseModal() is a React hook that allows you to define a modal by providing a custom rendering function.

After defining your modal you can invoke it as a normal function, and await for the returned promise to get the modal resolution result.

Usage

1. Define your modal with usePromiseModal()
2. Invoke it from your event handler using invoke()
3. Wait for the modal to resolve with await

// 1) Define your modal
const confirmation = usePromiseModal((props) => <MyModal {...props} />);

// 2) Call it in your event handler
async function handleClick() {
    // 3) Wait for the modal to resolve
    if (await confirmation.invoke()) {
        // TODO: Perform the operation.
    }
}

Demo: https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/zen-jennings-4pmm3k

API

The usePromiseModal() hook returns the following values:

const { invoke, modal, isDisplayed } = usePromiseModal(/* ... */);

• invoke — imperatively invoke the modal, optionally passing additional call-time arguments. Returns a promise you can await to get the modal resolution value, when it's available. Or undefined if the modal has been dismissed or cancelled.

• modal — the rendered modal markup (ReactElement | null). You should always render this value into your component subtree.

• isDisplayed — a boolean flag indicating if there is currently a pending modal for this definition.

The modal render function receives these properties:

usePromiseModal(({ show, onDismiss, onSubmit }) => (
    <MyModal show={show} onDismiss={onDismiss} onSubmit={onSubmit} />
));

• show — boolean to tell if the window is visible or not. Used for in/out transitions. Primarily intended to be used as react-bootstrap Modal show property.

• onDismiss — should be invoked when the modal is dismissed. Always resolves the promise to undefined.

• onSubmit — should be invoked when the modal is submitted/confirmed. Resolves to the value provided as an argument to it. The resolve value cannot be undefined, because it is already reserved for dismissal.

Examples

Confirmation

You can easily implement a confirmation modal using usePromiseModal():

import { usePromiseModal } from '@prezly/react-promise-modal';

function MyApp() {
    const confirmation = usePromiseModal(({ show, onSubmit, onDismiss }) => {
        // Use any modal implementation you want
        <MyConfirmationModal title="⚠️ Are you sure?" show={show} onConfirm={() => onSubmit(true)} onDismiss={onDismiss} />
    });
    
    async function handleDeleteAccount() {
        if (await confirmation.invoke()) {
            console.log('Confirmed');
        } else {
            console.log('Cancelled');
        }
    }
    
    return (
        <div>
           <button onClick={handleDeleteAccount}>Delete account</button>
           {confirmation.modal}
        </div>
    )
}

Alert

Alert is basically the same as confirmation, except there is no difference whether it is submitted or dismissed -- the modal has single action anyway. So we only need onDismiss:

import { usePromiseModal } from '@prezly/react-promise-modal';

function MyApp() {
    const alert = usePromiseModal(({ show, onDismiss }) => {
        // Use any modal implementation you want
        <MyAlertModal title="✔ Account deleted!" show={show} onDismiss={onDismiss} />
    });

    async function handleDeleteAccount() {
        await api.deleteAccount();
        await alert.invoke();
    }

    return (
        <div>
            <button onClick={handleDeleteAccount}>Delete account</button>
            {alert.modal}
        </div>
    )
}

Prompt User Input

For data prompts all you need is to resolve the promise by submitting the value to onSubmit: either a scalar, or more complex shapes wrapped into an object:

import { usePromiseModal } from '@prezly/react-promise-modal';

function MyApp() {
    const prompt = usePromiseModal<string, { title: string }>(
        (props) => <MyFilenamePromptModal {...props} />,
    );

    async function handleCreateFile() {
        const filename = await prompt.invoke({ title: 'Please enter filename:' });
        if (!filename) {
            console.error('Filename is required');
            return;
        }
        await api.createFile(filename);
    }

    return (
        <div>
            <button onClick={handleCreateFile}>Create new file</button>
            {prompt.modal}
        </div>
    )
}

interface Props {
    title: string;
    show: boolean;
    onSubmit: (filename: string) => void;
    onDismiss: () => void;
}

function MyFilenamePromptModal({ title, show, onSubmit, onDismiss }: Props) {
    const [filename, setFilename] = useState("Untitled.txt");

    return (
        // Use any modal implementation you want
        <Modal show={show} onHide={onDismiss}>
            <form onSubmit={() => onSubmit(filename)}>
                <p>{title}</p>
                <input autoFocus value={filename} onChange={(event) => setFilename(event.target.value)} />

                <button variant="secondary" onClick={onDismiss}>Cancel</button>
                <button variant="primary" type="submit">Confirm</button>
            </form>
        </Modal>
    );
}

Additional Invoke-Time Arguments

In addition to the three standard properties your render callback will always receive when rendered, you can also pass extra call-time properties. Declare them with the second generic type parameter of usePromiseModal(), and then pass to the invoke() method:

import { usePromiseModal } from "@prezly/react-promise-modal";

const failureFeedback = usePromiseModal<undefined, { status: Status, failures: OperationFailure[] }>(
    ({ status, failures, show, onSubmit, onDismiss }) => (
        <FailureModal status={status} failures={failures} show={show} onSubmit={onSubmit} onDismiss={onDismiss} />
    ),
);

// Invocation of the modal now requires these additional properties:
async function handleFlakyOperation() {
    const { status, failures } = await api.flakyOperation();
    if (status !== 'success') {
        await failureFeedback.invoke({ status, failures }); // Note: here we pass additional parameters call-time
    }
}

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