frappe-react-sdk

React hooks library for a Frappe Framework backend.

Features

The library currently supports the following features:

• 🔐 Authentication - login with username and password (cookie based) + token based authentication, logout and maintain user state
• 🗄 Database - Hooks to get document, get list of documents, get count, create, update and delete documents
• 📄 File upload - Hook to upload a file to the Frappe filesystem. Maintains loading, progress and error states.
• 🤙🏻 API calls - Hooks to make API calls to your whitelisted backend functions and maintain state
• 🔍 Search - Hook to search documents in your database (with debouncing ✨)

We plan to add the following features in the future:

• Support for other common functions like exists in the database.

The library uses frappe-js-sdk and SWR under the hood to make API calls to your Frappe backend.

SWR

SWR uses a cache invalidation strategy and also updates the data constantly and automatically (in the background). This allows the UI to always be fast and reactive. The hooks in the library use the default configuration for useSWR but you will be able to overwrite the configuration of useSWR. Please refer to the useSWR API Options

Looking for a Frappe frontend library for other Javascript frameworks?

You can use frappe-js-sdk to interface your frontend web app with Frappe.

Maintainers

Maintainer	GitHub	Social
Nikhil Kothari	nikkothari22	@nik_kothari22
Janhvi Patil	janhvipatil	@janhvipatil_
Sumit Jain	sumitjain236	LinkedIn

Installation

npm install frappe-react-sdk

or

yarn add frappe-react-sdk

Note - All examples below are in Typescript. If you want to use it with Javascript, just ignore the type generics like <T> in the examples below.

Initialising the library

To get started, initialise the library by wrapping your App with the FrappeProvider. You can optionally provide the URL of your Frappe server if the web app is not hosted on the same URL.

In App.tsx or App.jsx:

import { FrappeProvider } from "frappe-react-sdk";

function App() {
    /** The URL is an optional parameter. Only use it if the Frappe server is hosted on a separate URL **/
  return (
    <FrappeProvider url='https://my-frappe-server.frappe.cloud'>
    {/** Your other app components **/}
    </FrappeProvider>
  )

In case you want to use the library with token based authentication (OAuth bearer tokens or API key/secret pairs), you can initialise the library like this:

import { FrappeProvider } from 'frappe-react-sdk';

function App() {

  /** The URL is an optional parameter. Only use it if the Frappe server is hosted on a separate URL **/
  return (
    <FrappeProvider url='https://my-frappe-server.frappe.cloud' tokenParams={
        useToken: true,
        // Pass a custom function that returns the token as a string - this could be fetched from LocalStorage or auth providers like Firebase, Auth0 etc.
        token: getTokenFromLocalStorage(),
        // This can be "Bearer" or "token"
        type: "Bearer"
    } >
      {/** Your other app components **/}
    </FrappeProvider>
  );
}

Authentication

The useFrappeAuth hook allows you to maintain the state of the current user, as well as login and logout the current user.

The hook uses useSWR under the hood to make the get_current_user API call - you can also pass in parameters to configure the behaviour of the useSWR hook.

export const MyAuthComponent = () => {
  const {
    currentUser,
    isValidating,
    isLoading,
    login,
    logout,
    error,
    updateCurrentUser,
    getUserCookie,
  } = useFrappeAuth();

  if (isLoading) return <div>loading...</div>;

  // render user
  return (
    <div>
      {currentUser}
      <button onClick={() => login('administrator', 'admin')}>Login</button>
      <button onClick={logout}>Logout</button>
      <button onClick={updateCurrentUser}>Fetch current user</button>
    </div>
  );
};

The hook will not make an API call if no cookie is found. If there is a cookie, it will call the frappe.auth.get_logged_user method. The hook will throw an error if the API call to frappe.auth.get_logged_user fails (network issue etc) or if the user is logged out (403 Forbidden). Handle errors accordingly and route the user to your login page if the error is because the user is not logged in.

The getUserCookie method can be used to reset the auth state if you encounter an authorization error in any other API call. This will then reset the currentUser to null.

Database

Fetch a document

The useFrappeGetDoc hook can be used to fetch a document from the database. The hook uses useSWR under the hood and it's configuration can be passed to it.

Parameters:

No.	Variable	type	Required	Description
1.	doctype	string	✅	Name of the doctype
2.	docname	string	✅	Name of the document
3.	options	SWRConfiguration	-	SWR Configuration Options

export const MyDocumentData = () => {
  const { data, error, isValidating, mutate } = useFrappeGetDoc<T>(
    'User',
    'Administrator',
    {
      /** SWR Configuration Options - Optional **/
    }
  );

  if (isValidating) {
    return <>Loading</>;
  }
  if (error) {
    return <>{JSON.stringify(error)}</>;
  }
  if (data) {
    return (
      <p>
        {JSON.stringify(data)}
        <button onClick={() => mutate()}>Reload</button>
      </p>
    );
  }
  return null;
};

---

Fetch list of documents

The useFrappeGetDocList hook can be used to fetch a list of documents from the database.

Parameters:

No.	Variable	type	Required	Description
1.	doctype	string	✅	Name of the doctype
2.	args	GetDocListArgs	-	optional parameter (object) to sort, filter, paginate and select the fields that you want to fetch.
3.	options	SWRConfiguration	-	SWR Configuration Options

export const MyDocumentList = () => {
  const { data, error, isValidating, mutate } = useFrappeGetDocList<T>(
    'DocType',
    {
      /** Fields to be fetched - Optional */
      fields: ['name', 'creation'],
      /** Filters to be applied - SQL AND operation */
      filters: [['creation', '>', '2021-10-09']],
      /** Filters to be applied - SQL OR operation */
      orFilters: [],
      /** Fetch from nth document in filtered and sorted list. Used for pagination  */
      limit_start: 5,
      /** Number of documents to be fetched. Default is 20  */
      limit: 10,
      /** Sort results by field and order  */
      orderBy: {
        field: 'creation',
        order: 'desc',
      },
      /** Fetch documents as a dictionary */
      asDict: false,
    },
    {
      /** SWR Configuration Options - Optional **/
    }
  );

  if (isValidating) {
    return <>Loading</>;
  }
  if (error) {
    return <>{JSON.stringify(error)}</>;
  }
  if (data) {
    return (
      <p>
        {JSON.stringify(data)}
        <button onClick={() => mutate()}>Reload</button>
      </p>
    );
  }
  return null;
};

Type declarations are available for the second argument and will be shown to you in your code editor.

Some other simpler examples (click to expand):

Fetch 20 items without optional parameters

In this case, only the name attribute will be fetched.

export const MyDocumentList = () => {
  const { data, error, isValidating } = useFrappeGetDocList<string>('User');

  if (isValidating) {
    return <>Loading</>;
  }
  if (error) {
    return <>{JSON.stringify(error)}</>;
  }
  if (data) {
    return (
      <ul>
        {data.map((username) => (
          <li>{username}</li>
        ))}
      </ul>
    );
  }
  return null;
};

Fetch usernames and emails with pagination

type UserItem = {
    name: string,
    email: string
}
export const MyDocumentList = () => {
    const [pageIndex, setPageIndex] = useState(0)
    const { data, error, isValidating } = useFrappeGetDocList<UserItem>("User" , {
        fields: ["name", "email"],
        limit_start: pageIndex,
        /** Number of documents to be fetched. Default is 20  */
        limit: 10,
        /** Sort results by field and order  */
        orderBy: {
            field: "creation",
            order: 'desc'
        }
    });

    if (isValidating) {
        return <>Loading</>
    }
    if (error) {
        return <>{JSON.stringify(error)}</>
    }
    if (data) {
        return <div>
            <ul>
            {
                data.map({name, email} => <li>{name} - {email}</li>)
            }
            </ul>
            <button onClick={() => setPageIndex(pageIndex + 10)}>Next page</button>
        </div>
    }
    return null
}

---

Fetch number of documents with filters

Parameters:

No.	Variable	type	Required	Description
1.	doctype	string	✅	Name of the doctype
2.	filters	Filter[]	-	optional parameter to filter the result
3.	cache	boolean	-	Whether to cache the value on the server - default: false
3.	debug	boolean	-	Whether to log debug messages on the server - default: false
3.	config	SWRConfiguration	-	SWR Configuration Options

export const DocumentCount = () => {
  const { data, error, isValidating, mutate } = useFrappeGetDocCount(
    'User',
    /** Filters **/
    [['enabled', '=', true]],
    /** Cache the result on server **/
    false,
    /** Print debug logs on server **/
    false,
    {
      /** SWR Configuration Options - Optional **/
    }
  );

  if (isValidating) {
    return <>Loading</>;
  }
  if (error) {
    return <>{JSON.stringify(error)}</>;
  }
  if (data) {
    return (
      <p>
        {data} enabled users
        <Button onClick={() => mutate()}>Reload</Button>
      </p>
    );
  }
  return null;
};

Some other simpler examples (click to expand):

Fetch total number of documents

export const DocumentCount = () => {
  const { data, error, isValidating } = useFrappeGetDocCount('User');

  if (isValidating) {
    return <>Loading</>;
  }
  if (error) {
    return <>{JSON.stringify(error)}</>;
  }
  if (data) {
    return <p>{data} total users</p>;
  }
  return null;
};

Fetch number of documents with filters

export const DocumentCount = () => {
  const { data, error, isValidating } = useFrappeGetDocCount('User', [
    ['enabled', '=', true],
  ]);

  if (isValidating) {
    return <>Loading</>;
  }
  if (error) {
    return <>{JSON.stringify(error)}</>;
  }
  if (data) {
    return <p>{data} enabled users</p>;
  }
  return null;
};

---

Create a document

To create a new document, pass the name of the DocType and the fields to createDoc.

db.createDoc('My Custom DocType', {
  name: 'Test',
  test_field: 'This is a test field',
})
  .then((doc) => console.log(doc))
  .catch((error) => console.error(error));

---

Update a document

To update an existing document, pass the name of the DocType, name of the document and the fields to be updated to updateDoc.

db.updateDoc('My Custom DocType', 'Test', {
  test_field: 'This is an updated test field.',
})
  .then((doc) => console.log(doc))
  .catch((error) => console.error(error));

---

Delete a document

To create a new document, pass the name of the DocType and the name of the document to be deleted to deleteDoc.

db.deleteDoc('My Custom DocType', 'Test')
  .then((response) => console.log(response.message)) // Message will be "ok"
  .catch((error) => console.error(error));

API Calls

GET request

Make a GET request to your endpoint with parameters.

const searchParams = {
  doctype: 'Currency',
  txt: 'IN',
};
call
  .get('frappe.desk.search_link', searchParams)
  .then((result) => console.log(result))
  .catch((error) => console.error(error));

---

POST request

Make a POST request to your endpoint with parameters.

const updatedFields = {
  doctype: 'User',
  name: 'Administrator',
  fieldname: 'interest',
  value: 'Frappe Framework, ERPNext',
};
call
  .post('frappe.client.set_value', updatedFields)
  .then((result) => console.log(result))
  .catch((error) => console.error(error));

---

PUT request

Make a PUT request to your endpoint with parameters.

const updatedFields = {
  doctype: 'User',
  name: 'Administrator',
  fieldname: 'interest',
  value: 'Frappe Framework, ERPNext',
};
call
  .put('frappe.client.set_value', updatedFields)
  .then((result) => console.log(result))
  .catch((error) => console.error(error));

---

DELETE request

Make a DELETE request to your endpoint with parameters.

const documentToBeDeleted = {
  doctype: 'Tag',
  name: 'Random Tag',
};
call
  .put('frappe.client.delete', documentToBeDeleted)
  .then((result) => console.log(result))
  .catch((error) => console.error(error));

File Uploads

const myFile; //Your File object

const fileArgs = {
  /** If the file access is private then set to TRUE (optional) */
  "isPrivate": true,
  /** Folder the file exists in (optional) */
  "folder": "Home",
  /** File URL (optional) */
  "file_url": "",
  /** Doctype associated with the file (optional) */
  "doctype": "User",
  /** Docname associated with the file (mandatory if doctype is present) */
  "docname": "Administrator",
  /** Field to be linked in the Document **/
  "fieldname" : "image"
}

file.uploadFile(
            myFile,
            fileArgs,
            /** Progress Indicator callback function **/
            (completedBytes, totalBytes) => console.log(Math.round((c / t) * 100), " completed")
        )
        .then(() => console.log("File Upload complete"))
        .catch(e => console.error(e))

License

See LICENSE.