react-easy-seo

a npm package that provides a creative solution for react seo without ssr or preload relies on react-router-dom and react-helmet

Installation

npm install -g react-easy-seo

Setup

1- create a sitemetadata.json in project root/src folder

2- add "postbuild":"react-easy-seo" in the scripts section in your package.json .
"scripts":{ .....
"postbuild":"react-easy-seo"
}.

3-Add ReactHelmet to App.js

• install react-helmet and react-router-dom

• Use the sitemetada.json as a source for dynamic metadata as well

• import useLocation import {useLocation} from 'react-router-dom'

• get location and make sure it has '/' at the end

  `var currentLocation = location.pathname

  if (currentLocation[currentLocation.length -1 ] !== "/"){ currentLocation = currentLocation.concat("/") }`

• add this in your Component <Helmet> <meta name='title' content={siteMetadata[currentLocation]['title'] }/> <meta name="description" content={siteMetadata[currentLocation]['description']}/> <title> {siteMetadata[currentLocation]['title']}</title> </Helmet>

4-run your react build normally and the output will be in './output'

How it Works

react-easy-seo transforms your react single page application to the traditional html folder structure using the routes provided in the sitemap.json file you make.

the json is structured as follows:

key value route {metadataname : metadatacontent}

example:{"/":{"title":"react-easy-seo","description":"react-easy-seo is the best way to handle react seo"}} which is converted to =>

"<meta name="title" content="react-easy-seo"></meta>" "<meta name="description" content="react-easy-seo is the best way to handle react seo"></meta>" "<title>react-easy-seo</title>"

so for each route you can have as many metadata as you want. another cool feature is having an article metadataname in the route object

{"/":{"article":"react-easy-seo is the best way to handle react seo"}} this is converted to => <p>react-easy-seo is the best way to handle react seo</p> and is added to the root div so its replaced as soon as your app loads but can really help with seo.