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Component Preview

This plugin can be used to get a preview of the components.

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Component Preview - Strapi Plugin

Component Preview plugin is used to view the actual component through a custom field in strapi. This plugin helps to give a live preview the component we are using. That helps to easily understand the component using.

Getting Started

The plugin can be used in strapi version above 4.4 (versions that support custom fields).

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To Install

  1. Go into your strapi project.
  2. Run the npm command npm i strapi-plugin-component-preview
  3. The plugin will be added to your strapi project.

Inorder to achieve the url of the file uploading it must be specified in the .env file as STRAPI_ADMIN_BACKEND_URL. This url need to be the base url of the admin.

Adding & Accessing URL

  1. Add this STRAPI_ADMIN_BACKEND_URL="YOUR_BASE_URL_HERE" to the .env file of your project.

How To Use

  1. Create a new field form a content type.
  2. Select custom fields.
  3. Component Preview field will appear there.
  4. Select this field and name it accordingly ("component_preview" is used commonly for more understanding) and save.
  5. Add the url of the file into the url field. All the images corressponding to the components need to be added into the
    uploads folder. The url must start with uploads/your_folder_name/your_file_name.
  6. Select the content type from the content manager.
  7. Click on the preview button from the content type builder and then the component preview will pop up.

NOTE: The images will not be saved into the database with the components.

Install now

npm install strapi-plugin-component-preview

STATS

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Last updated

249 days ago

Strapi Version

4.0.0 and above

Author

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Vinu Babu

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