React Subscribe Card

Pre-styled card form to subscribe emails to a newsletter and other lists (for Mailchimp + TinyLetter).

Requirements

Requires React and...

  1. Mailchimp account

or

  1. TinyLetter account

Example

import React from "react";
import SubscribeCard from "react-subscribe-card";

const mailchimpURL = `[Your Mailchimp subscription URL]`;

const outerCardStyle = `
      padding: 0;
      box-shadow: 0px 5px 35px 0px rgba(50, 50, 93, 0.17);
    `;
const subContainerStyle = `
      box-shadow: 0 2px 5px -1px rgba(50,50,93,.25), 0 1px 3px -1px rgba(0,0,0,.3);
      align-items: center;
    `;
const subInputStyle = `
      border-width: 0;
      margin: 0;
    `;
const subButtonStyle = `
      border-radius: 0;
      flex-grow: 1;
      background-color: #fdfdfd;
      color: #000000;
    `;

const App = () => (
  <div>
    <SubscribeCard
      mailchimpURL={mailchimpURL}
      outerCardStyle={outerCardStyle}
      subContainerStyle={subContainerStyle}
      subInputStyle={subInputStyle}
      subButtonStyle={subButtonStyle}
    />
  </div>
);

export default App;

Installation

yarn add react-subscribe-card
# or
npm install --save react-subscribe-card

Usage

# ES6 import
import GradientButton from 'react-native-gradient-buttons';

Props

  • mailchimpURL: String

    • To get your Mailchimp subscription URL, go to Mailchimp Form Builder > select Embedded forms > look at embedded HTML and copy the action URL in the <form>.

  • tinyletterUsername: String

    • Your TinyLetter username

Note: Only use mailchimpURL or tinyletterUsername prop. If you use both, mailchimpURL will take precedent.

  • title: String

    • Title of your card
    • default: "Join my newsletter"

  • description: String

    • Description of your card
    • default: "Subscribe and I'll send you my latest blog posts by email. Also, you'll be the first to hear about new things I'm working on."

  • emailPlaceholder: String

    • Placholder for user input email
    • default: "Your Email"

  • buttonText: String

    • Text of the submit button
    • default: "Subscribe"

The following props are strings, but you must format as CSS to override the default styles

This component is styled using styled-components. Reference the styled-components website to see more on specific formatting. You can nest rules just like Sass.

  • outerCardStyle: String

    // default
`box-sizing: border-box;
  position: relative;
  background-color: #f2f2f2;
  border-radius: 8px;
  padding: 8px;
  margin: 48px auto;
  max-width: 90%;
  width: 550px;`;

  • innerCardStyle: String

    // default
`background-color: #fdfdfd;
  border-radius: 4px;
  padding: 20px;
  margin: 0;`;

  • titleStyle: String

    // default
`font-family: 'Montserrat', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 30px;
font-weight: 800;
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
text-align: left;
word-break: break-word;`;

  • descriptionStyle: String

    // default
`font-family: 'Montserrat', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: 400;
line-height: 21px;
margin: 0 0 10px 0;
text-align: left;`;

  • subContainerStyle: String

    // default
`display: flex;

@media all and (max-width: 500px) {
  flex-direction: column;
}`;

  • subInputStyle: String

    // default
`font-family: 'Montserrat', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background-color: #fdfdfd;
color: #333333;
border-color: #f2f2f2;
border-style: solid;
border-width: 5px;
font-size: 16px;
height: 40px;
line-height: 20px;
margin-bottom: 10px;
margin-top: 0;
padding: 10px 10px;
box-sizing: border-box;
width: 70%;
max-width: 100%;
margin-right: 16px;

@media all and (max-width: 500px) {
  width: 100%;
}`;

  • subButtonStyle: String

    // default
`font-family: 'Montserrat', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
background-color: #000000;
border: none;
border-radius: 25px;
box-shadow: none;
color: #ffffff;
font-size: 18px;
font-weight: 700;
height: 40px;
line-height: 20px;
padding: 10px 20px;
box-sizing: border-box;
display: inline-block;
cursor: pointer;

&:hover {
  box-shadow: inset 0 0 100px 100px rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.25);
}`;

  • responseStyle: String

    // default
`font-family: 'Montserrat', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 15px;
font-weight: 600;
line-height: 21px;
text-align: center;
margin: 0;
margin-top: 4px;`;

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