Configuration of the app

The plugin will not support multiple languages. In order to switch languages at runtime, you will have to call the configure function with a new config.

The plugin also comes with a default english config, which implements a policy from each of the categories listed further below.

More information about the configuration options:

Config

The config object consists of (? means it’s optional):

policy

We need to support policies

A policy consists of:

  • id: string | a unique string, this is the key stored in the cookie preferences array
  • label: string | the title to thow in the UI for this policy
  • description: string | the describtion in the UI that describes what the policy does
  • category: string | essential, social, statistics, functional, personalisation, marketing

Remark: policies of type essential can not be disabled.

essentialLabel

This is the label that will be displayed instead of the slider if essential cookies are present.

permissionLabels

These are the labels that are displayed on the buttons to accept or deny the preferences.

The labels consist of:

  • accept: string | the value of the accept button when a user has customised some of the policies
  • acceptAll: string | the value of the accept button when a user accepts all policies
  • decline: string | the value of the decline button

cookiePreferenceKey

This is an an optional string that allows the developer to specify the name of the cookie that stores the user preferences.

An object that contains the values that are show in the banner of the cookie though modal

  • title?: string
  • subtitle?: string
  • description: string

customizeLabel

The label that is shown on the toggleButton for the policies.

cookiePolicy

An optional object that contains the values used to link a user to the cookie policy

  • url: URL | link to a pdf or website explaining the complete cookie policy
  • label: string | text that is used for the link

Example

{
  "policies": [
    {
      "id": "essential",
      "label": "Essential Cookies",
      "description": "We need to save some technical cookies, for the website to function properly.",
      "category": "essential",
    },
    {
      "id": "functional",
      "label": "Functional Cookies",
      "category": "functional",
      "description": "We need to save some basic preferences eg. language.",
    },
    {
      "id": "statistics",
      "label": "Statistics",
      "category": "statistics",
      "description": "We need to save some technical cookies, for the website to function properly.",
    },
    {
      "id": "social",
      "label": "Social Media Cookies",
      "category": "social",
      "description": "We need to save some social cookies, for the website to function properly.",
    },
  ],
  "essentialLabel": "Always on",
  "permissionLabels": {
    "accept": "Accept",
    "acceptAll": "Accept all",
    "decline": "Decline"
  },
  "cookiePreferenceKey": "cookie-preferences",
  "header": {
      "title": "cookie though?",
      "subTitle": "You're probably fed up with these banners...",
      "description": "Everybody wants to show his best side - and so do we. That’s why we use cookies to guarantee you a better experience."
  },
  "cookiePolicy": {
    "url":"https://inthepocket.com/cookie-policy",
    "label":"Read the full cookie declaration",
  },
  "customizeLabel": "Customize"
};