svelte-conmu

A Svelte Context Menu Library. Headless, the rendering/styling is completely in your hands. The only things the library provides are:

• Anchors the menu to the cursor in a way that it doesn't leave the screen
• Makes sure the menu closes properly
  • On clicks/right-clicks outside of the menu
  • On menu selection
  • On Escape keypress

Get a taste with the demo.

Getting started

1. Install the library with npm install --save-dev svelte-conmu

2. Setup one component - lets call it ContextMenu.svelte - which renders all the context menus you will have.

   • First import ContextMenuWrapper:

    import { ContextMenuWrapper } from "svelte-conmu";
   

   • The ContextMenuWrapper will pass you the options. You will define those later on. Here it's only about the look:

   <div id="context-menu">
     {#each options as option}
       <!-- svelte-ignore a11y-click-events-have-key-events -->
       {#if option.label == "hr"}
         <hr />
       {:else if option.action}
         <div class="context-menu-option" on:click={option.action}>
           {option.label}
         </div>
       {:else}
         <div class="context-menu-info" on:click={close}>
           {option.label}
         </div>
       {/if}
     {/each}
   </div>
   

   • Note how you could encode different type of contexts menu elements (like select option, seperator & info just by evaluating the option.)

3. Add the context menu trigger and the options to show in any component you want.

   • In the script section add this:

   import { contextMenu, type ContextMenuOption } from "svelte-conmu";
   
   const contextMenuOptions: ContextMenuOption[] = [
    {
      label: "Do A",
      action: () => {
        // do A..
      },
    },
    { label: "hr" },
    {
      label: "Do B",
      action: () => {
        // do B...
      },
    },
    ...
   ];
   

   • and in the html section add the trigger:

   <div on:contextmenu|preventDefault|stopPropagation={(e) =>contextMenu.toggle(e, contextMenuOptions)}>My Content</div>
   

4. Final Step. Put the ContextMenu.svelte you build in the first step into your App.svelte

<ContextMenu />

• It doesn't matter where since the positioning is absolute. Also this display (show/not-show) will be handled by the library.

For full example see https://github.com/jzillmann/svelte-conmu/tree/main/example.

FAQ

How to extend ContextMenuOption with custom data

You can do that by extending the definition through a entry in a t.ds file, e.g. in vite-env.d.ts:

// Extend svelte-conmu with highlight option
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars
import * as svelte_conmu from 'svelte-conmu';

declare module 'svelte-conmu' {
    export interface ContextMenuOption {
        highlight?: () => boolean;
    }
}

Now Type Script should give you type support for highlight when defining ContextMenuOptions and accessing them in your ContextMenu.svelte.

Develop

• npm build to build the package
• npm link to make the package locally available (e.g. for the example project)

How to release

• Deploy a new version of the demo: cd example; npm run deploy
• npm publish
• tag with
  • git tag -a $releaseVersion -m "$releaseVersion release"
  • git push --tags
• Increase version in package.json

Notes

Inspired by https://svelte.dev/repl/6fb90919e24942b2b47d9ad154386b0c?version=3.49.0.