Beacon DevTools

DevTools for Help Scout's Beacon Embed

Table of contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • Development
  • In Browser
• Demo
• Props
  • beaconIds example
• Check out Beacon

Installation

npm install --save-dev @helpscout/beacon-devtools

Usage

Development

import React from 'react'
import BeaconDevTools from '@helpscout/beacon-devtools'

class MyApp extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        ...
        <BeaconDevTools />
      </div>
    )
  }
}

In Browser

To add Beacon DevTools to your page, copy/paste the following snippet into your HTML:

<script
  crossorigin
  src="https://unpkg.com/@helpscout/beacon-devtools/dist/beacon-devtools.umd.js"
></script>

Alternatively, you can add this snippet:

<script>
  ;(function() {
    var u =
      'https://unpkg.com/@helpscout/beacon-devtools/dist/beacon-devtools.umd.js'
    var s = document.createElement('script')
    s.type = 'text/javascript'
    s.charset = 'utf-8'
    s.src = u
    document.body.appendChild(s)
  })()
</script>

Demo

Check out the demo on Netlify!

Props

<BeaconDevTools />

Prop	Type	Default	Description
isAutoOpen	boolean	false	Automatically opens Beacon on load.
beaconIds	Array<Object>	[]	A collection of Beacon IDs to load into a select.

beaconIds example

const beaconIds = [
  { id: '...', label: 'My Test Beacon 1' },
  { id: '...', label: 'Production Beacon' },
  { id: '...', label: 'Marketing Beacon' },
]

// ...

<BeaconDevTools beaconIds={beaconId} />

Check out Beacon

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