react-axe-es

This project is a thin wrapper around react-axe, the only difference is the addition of the sideEffects flag set to false in the package.json.

Please, read to the official react-axe docs for the full documentation.

Why?

The only supported way to use react-axe is to use CommonJS to conditionally import the dependency, or to use dynamic import() statements, that will make your initial app rendering asyncronous.

Neither of the above approaches are acceptable solutions for consumers that follow a pure ES modules approach, as reccomended by the webpack documentation.

To overcome this limitation, react-axe-es allows its consumers to statically import the dependency with a standard static import statement, while allowing the consumer's bundler (such as webpack, rollup, parcel, etc...) to dead code eliminate the imported dependency in case it ends up not being used in the production code.

The following example will bundle react-axe-es when NODE_ENV is not set to production, but will strip it out completely in the other case:

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import axe from 'react-axe-es';

if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') {
  axe(React, ReactDOM, 1000);
}

How

This package has as only dependency react-axe, with the 3.0.0 version configured to allow any react-axe@3.x version, this means you don't need to wait for a new react-axe-es release to use the new react-axe features.

We tried to get this functionality baked it into the core library, but the maintainers refused to merge our pull request.

For a list of not suitable approaches supported by react-axe, please refer to the wiki.