Use data from Flotiq in React and Typescript projects¶
Info
This page demonstrates a TypeScript-based approach to React components hydrated with data coming from Flotiq
Introduction¶
In this short article we will show how to setup a Flotiq content type and use your OpenAPI schema to generate a Typescript-compatible API client that will integrate seamlessly with your Next.js project. As a result you will be able to consume any data you store in Flotiq in Next.js with benefits like code completion in your IDE.
Prerequisites¶
- Flotiq account
- basic Typescript and React knowledge.
Create a content type in Flotiq¶
Start with a simple content type, for example one that represents a Hero section in your website.
once you create the content type definition - go ahead and add some objects too.
Create NextJS project¶
Next, use the create-next-app
to setup a fresh Next.js project
npx create-next-app@latest flotiq-component-demo --typescript --eslint
cd flotiq-component-demo
Read more about create-next-app here.
Export Flotiq API and build the API package¶
When the Next.js project is already up and running you will now connect it to your Flotiq API. Start by exporting the API definition into a file. You will need your read-only API key to do this - here’s how to get it.
export FLOTIQ_RO_API_KEY=<YOUR_RO_API_KEY_HERE>
curl -X GET "https://api.flotiq.com/api/v1/open-api-schema.json?hydrate=1" -H "X-Auth-Token: ${FLOTIQ_RO_API_KEY}" > oas.json
This command will save your OpenAPI definition into a file called oas.json
in your current directory. Next - you will process that file with openapi-generator
to build the API client:
docker run --rm -it -v "${PWD}:/tmp" \
--workdir /tmp openapitools/openapi-generator-cli \
generate -i /tmp/oas.json -g typescript-node -o /tmp/flotiq-api \
--additional-properties=modelPropertyNaming=original,paramNaming=original,withNodeImports=true,supportsES6=true,npmName=component-api,npmVersion=0.1.0
This will save the API in flotiq-api
directory, so you now have to move the built API into its proper location (note that the target path will change if you are not using NextJS src
and app
directories):
mv flotiq-api ./src/app/flotiq
Use the API¶
We’re almost done! Now you have to edit 2 files in the NextJS repo: 1. src/app/page.tsx
and 2. src/app/components/hero.tsx
(new file) to start using the API.
Let’s start with page.tsx
. First, we need to connect to Flotiq API, add the following lines to your file
// add this at the beginning of the file, with other imports
import { ContentHeroApi, ContentHeroApiApiKeys, HeroList } from './flotiq/api'
const FLOTIQ_API_URL = "https://api.flotiq.com";
const FLOTIQ_API_KEY = "<YOUR_RO_API_KEY_HERE>"; // RO
async function getData() : HeroList {
const heroApi = new ContentHeroApi(FLOTIQ_API_URL);
heroApi.setApiKey(ContentHeroApiApiKeys.HeaderApiKeyAuth, FLOTIQ_API_KEY);
// let's fetch all sections and make sure we hydrate them
const {body: list} = await heroApi.listHero(undefined, undefined, undefined, undefined, 1)
return list;
}
next, let’s update the Home()
component to display all the sections found:
export default async function Home() {
const list = await getData();
return (
<main>
<div className="bg-white py-24 sm:py-32">
{list.data?.map(function(section, index){
return <HeroComponent hero={section}></HeroComponent>
})
}
</div>
</main>
)
}
now, let’s create that HeroComponent in the src/app/components/hero.tsx
file:
import { Hero } from "../flotiq/api";
interface HeroProps {
hero: Hero
}
export default function HeroComponent({hero} : HeroProps){
return (
<div>
<h3>
{hero.lead_text}
</h3>
</div>
);
}
That’s it! Start using TypeScript with Flotiq data. By now you probably noticed how convenient it is to have explicit typing and code completion in your editor: