React button component with Tailwindcss

Hello learners!

This article will help you to build a custom react button component and you can use this button anywhere in your project.

If you don't know how to use tailwindcss with React, check my Article about it.

Perquisites

understanding of HTML, CSS, JS
Reactjs basics
TailwindCSS basic

Let's get started!

Let start with the basics steps. Create a folder as component in the src folder of your project. Then create a file named button.js in the component folder.

Here I assume you already know about react app!

And start with React Functional component basic code!

//../src/component/button.js
import React from 'react'

function button() {
    return (
        <div>

        </div>
    )
}

export default button

As we need a dynamic button component, that we use the props to make a button dynamic.

Add props as a argument in button().

...
function button(props) {
    ...

Add <a> tag inside <div> tag.

<a class={`px-8 flex max-w-max items-center justify-center text-xs leading-snug border border-solid rounded-md text-${(props.color) ? props.text : "black"} py-3   hover:bg-white hover:border-${props.bg} hover:text-black bg-${props.bg}`}</a>

In class attributes we use tailwind class. If you don't know about tailwind class, then learn more about class in Tailwindcss docs.

Now see, what's inside the text-${ ... } ?. Here we use the Ternary operator to set the text color of a button. if we provide color for text, it takes that color for text, or else it takes default color as black text-${(props.color) ? props.text : "black"}.

example <Button color="red"/>

Note: want to learn more about Ternary operators? Click here.

Likewise we can set the dynamic background-color bg-${props.bg} and border-color while hovering hover:border-${props.bg}.

Note: we can provide any number of property in the button component, we access those properties through props.

Next, add necessary attributes of <a> tag href and type.

<a class={...}
    href= {(props.href ? props.href : "#")} 
    type="button"
    >
</a>

Here also we use the ternary operator, to get dynamic links from props.href . If we provide a link, it will take that otherwise it going with default #.

Finally, add dynamic button content. Use props.label inside the carly bracket { }.

<a class={...}
    href={...}
    type="button"
    >
        {props.label}
</a>

Now, our custom reusable button component is ready 🥳🥳.

Completed Code of a button.

//../src/component/button.js
import React from 'react'
function button(props) {
    return (
        <div>
            <a class={`px-8 flex max-w-max items-center justify-center text-xs leading-snug border border-solid rounded-md text-${(props.color) ? props.text : "white"} py-3   hover:bg-white hover:border-${props.bg} hover:text-black bg-${props.bg}`}
                href= {(props.href ? props.href : "#")} 
                type="button">
                {props.label}
                </a>
        </div>
    )
}
export default button;

Okay, But how can we use this button component in our project? 🤔 💭

First select, In which file you want to use button and import button component from the component folder. Like below!

import Button from './component/button'

then use our button.

<Button label="Click here" href="https://google.com" color="white" bg="blue-600"/>

complete App.js file code.

//../App.js
import React from 'react';
import Button from './component/button'
function App() {
  return (
    <div class="flex justify-center items-center w-screen h-screen">
      <Button label="Click here" href="https://google.com" color="white" bg="blue-600"/>
    </div>
  );
}
export default App;