Modal with External State

24 September 2020 by osban

Level: beginner • Mithril.js Version: latest

m.mount modal state

In this example we see a Modal component using state that is handled outside the component. So, the message is managed in an simple external state object and injected into the modal within the onclick handler.

Live Example #

JavaScript #

let state = {
  modal: null
}

const Modal = {
  view: () =>
    m('div.modal',
      m('div.c1',
        m('div.c2', state.modal.text),
        m('button', {onclick: () => state.modal = null}, 'OK')
      )
    )
}

const App = {
  view: () => [
    m('h1', 'TEST'),
    m('button', {onclick: () => state.modal = {text: 'This is a modal'}}, 'show modal'),
    state.modal && m(Modal)
  ]
}

m.mount(document.body, App)

CSS #

.modal {
  position: fixed;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100vw;
  height: 100vh;
  background: rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center;
  align-items: center;
}

.c1 {
  text-align: center;
  padding-bottom: 40px;
  width: 200px;
  height: 100px;
  background: white
}

.c2 {
  padding-top: 40px;
  margin-bottom: 20px
}

As a prerequisite for this snippet, the latest version of Mithril.js framework is required. Beginners should have no problems following this example, that simply shows some basic recipies.

In this code sample Mithril.js' m.mount API method is use, besides the basic hyperscript function m().

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