React Pincode

React Pincode is a published NPM module that can be integrated inside any ReactJS application. It is used to extract Area, City, District, and State information as soon as the user enters valid Pin-Code. On entering a valid Pin-Code, a GET request is made to the Indian Postal Service API and the useful information is extracted and results are displayed in the respective fields. If an invalid Pincode is entered an error is thrown which can be customized by a user using a specific prop.

Table of Contents

• About
• Prerequisites
  • Note
• Working
  • JS
  • Playground
• Pincode props
• Example
  • JS
  • Development and Testing
• Contributing
• Development Guidelines
• Owner

About

The four input fields are wrapped inside an <div> element and each input field is also wrapped inside <div>. So that a user can style it according to the need in the project.

Whenever the wrong Pincode is entered red border appears on the pin code input field and on entering a right pin code, city, district and state input fields get automatically filled with correct data

Note

This will only work for Indian Pincodes.

Working

import Pincode from 'react-pincode';

JS

import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
import Pincode from 'react-pincode';

function App() {
  const [pincodeData, setPincodeData] = useState('');
  return (
    <div className="App">
      <Pincode
        invalidError="Please check pincode"
        lengthError="check length"
        getData={(data) => setPincodeData(data)}
      />
    </div>
  );
}

Playground

Find Codepen Implementation of the module here

Pincode Props

1. Props for changing CSS properties

2. Props for changing error message.

By deafult,

• For an Invalid Pincode - "Invalid PIN Code"
• If Pincode length is not valid - "ZIP code must be of 6 digits"

Example

JS

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Pincode from "react-pincode";

export default class Example extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        <Pincode  cityInput={{width:'200px'}}/>
        // This will set the length of city input field to 200px. You can play with rest of the props to style it according to your need.
      </div>
    )
  }
}
export default Example;

Development and Testing

1. Set-up the React-Pincode module by dowloading its dependencies, using npm install command.
2. Build the module using npm run build
3. Link the module for testing using npm link command.
4. Change your directory to test-server directory, using cd test-server
5. Install the dependecies using npm install
6. Now run npm link react-pincode
7. Congratulations! You have set-up the test server for react-pincode. Now just run npm start from test-server directory to launch the test-server.
8. You don't need to stop this server, the changes made in the module will be reflected automatically each time you build them using npm run build
9. To watch a video on installation (Click on the thumbnail):

Contributing

Please read Contributing Guidelines for information on how to contribute to React-Pincode.

Development Guidelines

1. Write clean and readable code with proper formatting.
2. Create a branch and push your code in the branch.
3. Please follow PR template to create one.
4. Please read our Code of Conduct .

Owner

Apoorv Taneja