Using SweetAlerts2

While working on my most recent project, I decided to incorporate a few pop ups for different features. A quick pop up for signing in or adding a new item to a list is a good way to let users know their clicks are working, but the standard alert is not very appealing. Enter SweetAlerts2.

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The SweetAlerts2 documentation is very helpful(https://sweetalert2.github.io/) for further details. Here is a quick setup guide. My project is built using React, so these steps are assuming you have the component built where you want to show your alert.

1) install sweetalerts2.
$ npm install sweetalerts2
2) Create a variable using sweetalerts in your function.
const Swal = require('sweetalert2')
3) Call your constant in the function where you want it.

Swal.fire({
          title: 'Added!',
          // text: 'Do you want to continue',
          icon: 'success',
          timer: 1500,
          // confirmButtonText: 'Cool',
          showConfirmButton: false
        }).then(
          function () {},
          // handling the promise rejection
          function (dismiss) {
            if (dismiss === 'timer') {
            }
          }
        )

I did not want any text added to my alert so I commented that out.
I also did not want any click button for users to close out the alert, I wanted it to disappear after a few seconds. To do this, I added in the timer line, shown in milliseconds. And showConfirmationButton needs to be set to: false. I also have the confirmationButtonText commented out since I am not using it.

In addition to the added alert, I also included a "success" alert when the user logged in. The steps are the same as listed above but with some minor adjustments.

1) set your constant:

const Swal = require('sweetalert2')

2) set the Toast constant for the popup:

const Toast = Swal.mixin({
        toast: true,
        position: 'top-end',
        showConfirmButton: false,
        timer: 3000,
        timerProgressBar: true,
        didOpen: (toast) => {
          toast.addEventListener('mouseenter', Swal.stopTimer)
          toast.addEventListener('mouseleave', Swal.resumeTimer)
        }
      })

3) Include it in your function:

Toast.fire({
                icon: 'success',
                title: 'Signed in successfully'
              })

There are 5 different alert icons included in the SweetAlert2 docs: success, error, info, warning, and question. As you can see, I used the success icon for both of my alerts.

I hope this article was helpful in getting started with SweetAlerts2. Please feel free to leave your thoughts or questions below.