Comment Manager is a Strapi plugin to allow your users to post comments.

With this plugin you can enable and manage comments for your content very easily!

Requirements

You should have installed an instance of Strapi v4.x.x

Installation

Run the following command in your project root:

npm install strapi-plugin-comment-manager

Configurarion

For your frontend to have access to the API, enable the following permissions for Comment Manager from Users & Permissions Plugin on your project settings:

For public, enable: count, find and getPageSize.

For authenticated, enable create on both Comment and Subcomment.

Display comments on the frontend

Comments can be displayed in the frontend in two ways:

1. Using the React components library strapi-comments-client (recommended)
2. Build your custom frontend using the API

API

There are some Typescript interfaces that will help to get an idea of the data structures.

Comments:

interface IComment {
  id: string,
  from_admin: boolean,
  createdAt: string,
  content: string,
  author: IAuthor | null,
  subcomments?: ISubcomment[]
}

Subcomments:

interface ISubcomment {
  id: string,
  from_admin: boolean,
  createdAt: string,
  content: string,
  author: IAuthor | null,
}

Authors:

IAuthor {
  username: string,
  email: string,
  id: string
}

The following endpoints are exposed to fetch and post comments and subcomments:

Get comments for a content ID

Method: GET

Path: /api/comment-manager/comments/:slug

Optional query parameters: start, ignoreCount

Returns:

{
  commentsCount?: Number,
  comments: IComment[]
}

The parameter start indicates how many comments to skip. This is for pagination purposes.

The parameter ignoreCount indicates whether or not to return the total number of comments associated with the given slug.

Get the number of comments associated with a given content ID

Method: GET

Path: /api/comment-manager/comments/:slug/count

Returns:

{
  count: Number
}

Post a comment

Method: POST

Path: /api/comment-manager/comments/:slug

Authentication: Bearer token

Payload:

{
  content: string
}

Returns:

{
  id: Number
}

Post a subcomment

Method: POST

Path: /api/comment-manager/subcomments/:parent-id

Authentication: Bearer token

Payload:

{
  content: string
}

Returns:

{
  id: Number
}

Get the page size

Method: GET

Path: /api/comment-manager/page-size

Returns:

{
  pageSize: Number
}

General settings

The plugin allows to set how many comments are returned per page by going to the Pagination section under Comment Manager Plugin on the Settings section.

The default page size is 10.

Management of comments

Admin users are able to delete comments and subcomments as well as leave replies as admins from within the plugin page of the Strapi admin dashboard.

The plugin interface has two tabs: one for the latest comments and one for comments by content ID.

Roadmap and future plans

The plugin is pretty basic but it can be improved with more features and a better UI/UX. Collaborations and suggestions are very welcome.