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Framework7 Feeds Plugin

Framework7 Feeds plugin brings easy RSS feeds integration into Framework7 app.

Plugin comes with easy and powerful JS API to integrate and customize RSS feeds. But in most cases you will not need to use JavaScript at all.

Installation

Just grab plugin files from dist/ folder or using npm:

npm install framework7-plugin-feeds

And link them to your app right AFTER Framework7's scripts and styles:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/framework7.min.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="path/to/framework7.feeds.css">
...
<script src="path/to/framework7.min.js"></script>
<script src="path/to/framework7.feeds.js"></script>

Usage

Install & Enable Plugin

After you included plugin script file, you need to install plugin before you init app:

// install plugin to Framework7
Framework7.use(Framework7Feeds);

// init app
var app = new Framework7({
  ...
})

ES Module

This plugin comes with ready to use ES module:

import Framework7 from 'framework7';
import Framework7Feeds from 'framework7-plugin-feeds';

// install plugin
Framework7.use(Framework7Feeds);

// init app
var app = new Framework7({
  ...
})

API

Plugin extends initiliazed app instance with new methods:

  • app.feeds.create(parameters) - init Feeds. This method returns initialized Feeds instance.
  • app.feeds.get(feedsEl) - get Feeds instance by HTML element. Method returns initialized Feeds instance.
  • app.feeds.destroy(feedsEl) - destroy Feeds instance

Feeds Parameters

Parameter Type Default Description
el string
HTMLElement
Target List Block element. In case of string - CSS selector of list block element where to put parsed feeds list.
feedUrl string URL of RSS feed to parse and load
openIn string page Could be `'page'` or `'popup'`. Defines how to open generated page of single feed item
formatDate function (date) Function to format RSS item date, this function should return string with formatted date
virtualList object
boolean
false Object with Virtual List parameters. If specified, then RSS feed will be loaded as Virtual List
customItemFields array [] Array with additional item fields (xml tags) that also should be parsed from RSS, for example `['content:encoded', 'author']`. Such custom RSS tags with colon (:) will be parsed and available in template without colon, for example, the value of `content:encoded` tag will be available in templates as `contentencoded` property.
renderVirtualListItem function(item, index) Function to render virtual list item in case of enabled virtual list. Must return item HTML string
renderList function(data) Function to render feeds list. Must return list HTML string
renderItemPage function(item) Function to render single feeds item page. Must return page HTML string
renderItemPopup function(item) Function to render single feeds item popup. Must return popup HTML string
routableModals boolean true Will add opened feeds item modal (when `openIn: 'popup'`) to router history which gives ability to close dynamic feeds item page by going back in router history and set current route to the feeds item modal
url string feed/ Feeds item URL that will be set as a current route url
view object Link to initialized View instance which is required for Feeds to work. By default, if not specified, it will be opened in parent View
pageBackLinkText string Back Feeds item page back link text
popupCloseLinkText string Close Feeds item popup close link text

Usage example with manual initialization:

<div class="list my-feed"></div>
var feed = app.feeds.create({
  el: '.my-feed',
  feedUrl: 'http://path-to-rss.com/rss.xml',
  openIn: 'popup'
});

Automatic initialization

If you need minimal parser setup you may use automatic initialization without JavaScript at all. In this case you need to add additional feeds-init class to feeds container and specify all parameters from table above using data- attributes, for example:

<div class="list feeds-init" data-feed-url="http://path-to-rss.com/rss.xml" data-open-in="popup"></div>

Feeds Events

Event Target Arguments Description
ajaxStart feeds (feeds) Event will be triggered when right before XHR request to specified feed url
feedsAjaxStart app (feeds) Event will be triggered when right before XHR request to specified feed url
ajaxComplete feeds (feeds, response) Event will be triggered when when XHR request completed
feedsAjaxComplete app (feeds) Event will be triggered when when XHR request completed
open feeds (feeds) Event will be triggered when Feeds item starts its opening animation (page transiton on popup open transition)
feedsOpen app (feeds) Event will be triggered when Feeds item starts its opening animation (page transiton on popup open transition)
opened feeds (feeds) Event will be triggered after Feeds item completes its opening animation (page transiton on popup open transition)
feedsOpened app (feeds) Event will be triggered after Feeds item completes its opening animation (page transiton on popup open transition)
close feeds (feeds) Event will be triggered when Feeds item starts its closing animation (page transiton on popup open transition)
feedsClose app (feeds) Event will be triggered when Feeds item starts its closing animation (page transiton on popup open transition)
closed feeds (feeds) Event will be triggered after Feeds item completes its closing animation (page transiton on popup open transition)
feedsClosed app (feeds) Event will be triggered after Feeds item completes its closing animation (page transiton on popup open transition)

Usage with Pull To Refresh

Feeds plugin fully compatible with Pull To Refresh component, and will automatically refresh feed on pull to refresh. No additional actions or code are required.

Demo

Plugin comes with demo example to see how it works and looks. To make demo works you need to run in terminal:

$ npm run prod

Contribute

All changes should be done only in src/ folder. This project uses gulp to build a distributable version.

First you need to install all dependencies:

$ npm install

Then to build plugin's files for testing run:

$ npm run build:dev

If you need a local server while you developing you can run:

$ gulp server

or

$ npm run dev

And working demo will be available at http://localhost:3000/demo/

Live Preview

https://framework7io.github.io/framework7-plugin-feeds/