React SDK overview

Overview

Monite's React SDK is a library of ready-to-use React components that are connected to the Monite API. These components can render and operate with data served by the API, such as payables, counterparts, and others. Monite partners can use UI Components to build React-based web applications for their client SMEs, powered by the Monite API.

Supported browsers

Monite UI Components support the five latest versions of major browsers: Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera.

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React SDK components responsiveness

As of this release, the Monite React SDK is optimized for desktop use and may not provide the desired responsiveness on mobile and tablet views. We are actively working to enhance support for these platforms in future updates.

Installation

Before using Monite React components, you must first install the React SDK and API SDK packages available on the NPM and Yarn directories. To install:

npm install @monite/sdk-react

yarn add @monite/sdk-react

The command installs the necessary packages for using Monite's React SDK in your application.

React components and wrappers

The Monite React UI Component SDK comes pre-built with React components and wrappers that can be used within React-based web applications. The following sections describe these components and their configuration:

The MoniteSDK instance

The MoniteSDK instance provides configuration for all Monite React UI components through the MoniteProvider wrapper.

import { MoniteSDK } from "@monite/sdk-api";

const monite = new MoniteSDK({
  apiUrl: 'https://api.sandbox.monite.com/v1', // '<https://api.monite.com/v1>' if in Production
  entityId: 'ENTITY_ID', 
  fetchToken: fetchToken
});

The following table shows all the MoniteSDK instance properties and their description:

The MoniteProvider wrapper

The MoniteProvider is the root component that must wrap all other Monite-connected components. The wrapper provides extra configuration for all Monite components beneath it.

import { MoniteProvider } from "@monite/sdk-react";

return (
  <MoniteProvider monite={monite} locale={{ currencyLocale: "de-DE" }}>
    <div className="App">
      ...
    </div>
  </MoniteProvider>
);

The following table shows all the MoniteProvider wrapper properties and their description:

The Dialog component

The Dialog component is a wrapper component that wraps Monite React SDK components. The component provides configuration for all Monite SDK components under it. The Dialog component has three props—open, fullScreen and alignDialog—that determine the availability and alignment of its child component(s).

When the open prop is true, the React SDK component(s) beneath the Dialog wrapper is rendered as a modal and aligned to the center of the page by default. The alignDialog prop is used to align the component modal to the left or right-hand side. Alternatively, using the fullScreen prop renders the component in a full-screen layout.

return (
 <Dialog open alignDialog="right">
   <InvoiceDetails id="INVOICE_ID" />
 </Dialog>
);

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Since the Dialog component affects all components beneath it, we recommend bringing in the component at instances where you need to render either the InvoiceDetails or CounterpartDetails components as modals.

Usage

The example below displays a list of an entity's counterparts. The MoniteProvider element serves as a wrapper for other Monite-connected components. Any other components imported from @team-monite/ui-widgets-react must be placed inside this element.

Get the credentials

Before using components from the React SDK, complete the Getting started guide to set up your partner account and get API the credentials.

We also assume you have already mapped out your customers and their users as entities and entity users in Monite, and that you have the ability to:

• look up the Monite entity user ID for the user who is logged in to your application;
• look up the Monite entity ID to which the user belongs.

When an entity user logs in to your application, look up the entity ID and user ID for that user, and call Monite's POST /auth/token endpoint to generate a Monite access token for that user.

Once you have a user access token and an entity ID, you can initialize the Monite client and components, as shown below.

Install the packages

npm install @monite/sdk-react

yarn add @monite/sdk-react

Import the packages

You need to import MoniteSDK, MoniteProvider, and any other components that you want to use (such as CounterpartsTable):

import { MoniteSDK } from '@monite/sdk-api';
import {
  MoniteProvider,
  CounterpartsTable,
} from '@monite/sdk-react';

Create the fetchToken function

The fetchToken function is used to get authorization tokens. You can create it at the backend side, but for illustration let's do that at frontend:

const fetchToken = async () => {
  const response = await fetch('https://api.sandbox.monite.com/v1/auth/token', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      'x-monite-version': '2024-01-31'
    },
    // TODO: Replace the following fields with your Monite credentials
    body: JSON.stringify({
      grant_type: 'entity_user',
      client_id: 'SECRET_CLIENT_ID',
      client_secret: 'SECRET_CLIENT_SECRET',
      entity_user_id: 'SECRET_ENTITY_USER_ID'
    })
  });

  return response.json();
}

Create a MoniteSDK instance

const monite = new MoniteSDK({
  apiUrl: 'https://api.sandbox.monite.com/v1', // Or 'https://api.monite.com/v1' to use Production
  entityId: 'ENTITY_ID', // Monite entity to which the user belongs

  /** Entity whose data you want to access */
  fetchToken: fetchToken
});

Embed MoniteProvider

The MoniteProvider is the root component that must wrap all other Monite-connected components. The wrapper provides extra configuration for all Monite components beneath it.

return (
  <MoniteProvider  
    monite={monite}  
    locale={{
      code: "en-US",   // default: de-DE
    }}
  >
    ...
  </MoniteProvider>
);

The locale prop is an optional configuration object that handles the localization mechanism for the UI components. With this, you can customize translations, currency formatting and usage of delimiters and decimal separators. For more information, see Localization.

Add components

In this example, we use the CounterpartsTable component to display a list of an entity's counterparts:

<MoniteProvider monite={monite} locale={{ code: "en-US" }}>
  <CounterpartsTable />
</MoniteProvider>

Review the result

If you followed this tutorial, your code should look like this:

import { MoniteSDK } from '@monite/sdk-api';
import {
  MoniteProvider,
  CounterpartsTable,
} from '@monite/sdk-react';

// Define a function that retrieves access tokens
const fetchToken = async () => {
  const response = await fetch('https://api.sandbox.monite.com/v1/auth/token', {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      'x-monite-version': '2024-01-31' //Monite API version
    },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      grant_type: 'entity_user',
      client_id: 'SECRET_CLIENT_ID',
      client_secret: 'SECRET_CLIENT_SECRET',
      entity_user_id: 'SECRET_ENTITY_USER_ID'
    })
  });

  return await response.json();
}

// Initialize the SDK
const monite = new MoniteSDK({
  apiUrl: 'https://api.sandbox.monite.com/v1', // Or 'https://api.monite.com/v1' to use Production
  entityId: 'ENTITY_ID',
  fetchToken: fetchToken
});

function App() {
  return (
    <MoniteProvider monite={monite} locale={{ code: "en-US" }}>
    	<CounterpartsTable />
    </MoniteProvider>
  );
}

export default App;

Run the application

npm run start

yarn start