Nativescript Comments

Comments box ready for integration inside you'r native script app

Installation

• tns plugin add nativescript-comments

add comments.ios.css and comments.android.css css for styling

*Be sure to run a new build after adding plugins to avoid any issues

Usage

    <Page xmlns="http://schemas.nativescript.org/tns.xsd" xmlns:UI="nativescript-comments">
    <UI:Comments  like="{{ like }}" add="{{ add }}" items="{{ comments }}"   />
    </page>

access events

     public like(args) {
        // args.object.toggle(args.to) function increase or decrease the like count inside the comment
        // args.to has the id of the liked item 
        args.object.toggle(args.to);
        console.log(this.comments.getItem(0).isLike);
    }

    public add(args) {
        // args.object.busy(true) show the activity indicator
        // args.object.busy(false) hide the activity indicator
        // args.object.push({}) push new comment to the items 
        let self = this;
        args.object.busy(true)

        // setTimeout is just to emulate server delay time 
        setTimeout(function () {
        args.object.push({ image: "~/images/icon-50.png", id: self.random(1000), comment: args.comment, replyTo: args.to, username: "Demo User", likes: 0, isLike: false, datetime: Date.now() });
        console.log(self.comments.length);
        args.object.busy(false);
        }, 2000);
    }

    public edit(args) {
        // the edited comment 
        alert(args.comment);
        //the id of the edited comment
        alert(args.id)
    }

        public delete(args) {
        //the id of the deleted comment
        alert(args.id);
    }

you can edit or delete by longPress on the comment that have {editing:true} in the comment object

API

see demo for more details

Property	Default	Description
items	required	Array of comment object { image:" image src ", id: "unique identifier of the comment", comment: "comment text ", username: "user name ", likes: " number of how many likes ", isLike: "boolean is the user like this or not ", datetime: "datetime of the comment" }
add	function(arg){}	event on comment added you can access the object to push the comment buy args.object.push($comment-object) and you can get the id of the comment that replyed to by args.to
like	function(arg){}	event on like clicked send with obj.to and you can toggle the like with args.object.toggle(args.to)
scroll	true	enable or disable scrollview inside the comments holder
canComment	true	disable or enable submission
imagetag		the xml element of the image so you can change it if you need to add cache plugin or something
plugin	empty string	plugin include statment like xmlns:IC="nativescript-web-image-cache"
title	Comments	the title of the comments box
replyText	reply	the reply button text
likeText	like	the like button text
toText	replying to :	replying to text
sendText	comment	the comment send button text
fontClass	fa	the font library class
editingText	editing your comment	the editing help text when you hit edit
xbtn	x	the exit edit or reply text can be font icon
textview	false	boolean flag to make comment field textview or textfield

License

Apache License Version 2.0, January 2004