Piral Menu ·

This is a plugin that only has a peer dependency to piral-core. What piral-menu brings to the table is a set of Pilet API extensions that can be used with piral or piral-core to bring a simplified menu integration from your pilets to your Piral instance.

Documentation

The following functions are brought to the Pilet API.

registerMenu()

Adds the definition of a menu item to the app shell. Optionally specifies the type of menu where the item should be shown.

If the first argument is a string a named menu item is registered. A named menu item can also be removed.

unregisterMenu()

Removes a menu item from the app shell. This requires a named menu item.

Usage

For authors of pilets

You can use the registerMenu function from the Pilet API to add a new menu item in the app shell.

Note: When the first argument is a string we call it a named menu item.

Example use:

import { PiletApi } from '<name-of-piral-instance>';
import { MyTile } from './MyTile';
 
export function setup(piral: PiletApi) {
  piral.registerMenu(MyTile);
}

You can use the unregisterMenu function from the Pilet API to remove a previously added menu item from the app shell.

Note: You'll need to have added a named menu item in order to be able to remove it.

Example use:

import { PiletApi } from '<name-of-piral-instance>';
import { MyTile } from './MyTile';
 
export function setup(piral: PiletApi) {
  // register with a name
  piral.registerMenu('first', MyTile);
  // and unregister; maybe some time later?
  piral.unregisterMenu('first');
}

Setup and Bootstrapping

For Piral instance developers

The provided library only brings API extensions for pilets to a Piral instance.

For the setup of the library itself you'll need to import createMenuApi from the piral-menu package.

import { createMenuApi } from 'piral-menu';

The integration looks like:

const instance = createInstance({
  // important part
  extendApi: [createMenuApi()],
  // ...
});

Via the options the defaultSettings and the global / initially available menu items can be defined.

For example:

const instance = createInstance({
  // important part
  extendApi: [createMenuApi({
    defaultSettings: {
      type: 'admin',
    },
    items: [
      {
        component: HomeMenuItem,
      },
    ],
  })],
  // ...
});

Customizing

You can customize the available dialogs and their options.

import 'piral-menu';
 
declare module 'piral-menu/lib/types' {
  interface PiralCustomMenuSettings {
    category?: string;
  }
}
 
// now registerMenu(() => null, { category: 'general' }) is strongly typed in pilets

License

Piral is released using the MIT license. For more information see the license file.