react-notion-x VS SweetAlert

Formatting the API response (eg. from https://developers.notion.com/reference/retrieve-a-block) is tough, so I want to use a community-maintained package like https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x. Most Notion API users use Notion as a website builder so almost all the packages are in React.js or Next.js

I love coming across a great blog like this an realizing it was built using two of my open source repos:

- https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/nextjs-notion-starter...

- https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x

Using this library, you can easily get data from Notion Pages.

I used an open source Notion library that I'm a main maintainer of called React-Notion-x. It takes Notion data and turns it into html blocks that you can add to your website.

Long: Looks like he is using Notion as a CMS (using something like https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x) for his site and not the actual Notion share feature, seen by that the page names are not included in the urls (and that he is using NextJS for his site).

For reference, we're using the notion-compat tool from the react-notion-x package.

There are already existing libraries that wrap it, you can search them on Github, for example this one https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x

In my previous article in this series, I had created my own react components to work with the Notion API due to the lack of a recognized renderer that works with Official Notion API. I came across the react-notion-X library but that did not use the Official Notion API then so I chose to create my own renderer. But soon after I published that article, Travis Fischer (creator of react-notion-x and a couple of really handy tools) added support for the official Notion API with notion-compat (still a WIP) which allows you to use react-notion-x’s powerful react renderer with the official API. So I replaced my renderer components with the react-notion-x renderer which gave me a huge performance boost.

Yes, it's using Notion as a CMS + react-notion-x (1) + some custom styling.

(1) https://github.com/NotionX/react-notion-x

Sunday morning programming fun. Created a little game to compare items from a list head-to-head and pick a winner. Inspired from social media short videos where people choose their favourite food, song, holiday destination etc. There are some example lists of cities, movies, actors, fragrances etc to play with and you can create your own list of items and play.

Check it out - https://yash.info/head-to-head.html

I created it mainly to pick a favourite fragrance from my collection of 50+. Not only is a fun project to build but it also allows me to use some of the interesting libraries and code snippets I find.

Programming logic wise there’s nothing fancy happening here, just picking a random element from an array and doing some JS and CSS around that.

New thing that I got to learn was generating a random color of a specific type (pastel, fluorescent, light) by playing with HSL values in a specific range instead of the RGB.

Discovered https://arraythis.com to convert a list to a JS array.

Used SweetAlert https://sweetalert.js.org for alert messages.

Been coding for 20+ years and such little projects still give me the joy of creation plus you always learn/find something that you did not know yesterday.

SweetAlert is a gorgeous notification library you can use to replace built-in alert function in your JavaScript applications. You can include buttons and icons, alter the text’s color, and even add alerts that adjust in response to user clicks.

Are you sure you're using SweetAlert2 and not SweetAlert1 because your syntax looks like 1.

SourceCode | Demo

Import Sweet Alert to your project

sweetalert:

Sweet Alert - A beautiful replacement for success messages, error messages or info messages

Big question, though: Are you using SweetAlert, or SweetAlert2 ?