Gutenberg : how can I get the title of the current block within its ‘edit’ function?

I’m a Gutenberg newbie.

I’m trying to display a placeholder component with my block’s edit function:

export default function Edit( { attributes, setAttributes, className } ) {
  return (
    <Placeholder
      icon={ icon }
      label={ title }
    >
  );
}

I would like to display the block icon and title, as they have been defined within the function registerBlockType.

Could someone point me how to do this ?
Thanks !

Answers:

Thank you for visiting the Q&A section on Magenaut. Please note that all the answers may not help you solve the issue immediately. So please treat them as advisements. If you found the post helpful (or not), leave a comment & I’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

Method 1

You can use wp.blocks.getBlockType() to get the block type’s settings.

So if you’ve registered a block type with the name my-guten/foo-block, just run getBlockType( 'my-guten/foo-block' ) to get the block type’s title, icon, etc.

const { registerBlockType, getBlockType } = wp.blocks;

// Register a block type.
registerBlockType( 'my-guten/foo-block', { ... } );

// Get the block type settings (title, icon, etc.).
const blockType = getBlockType( 'my-guten/foo-block' );

// Inspect the settings:
console.log( blockType );

And from within a block type’s edit function, the block type’s name is passed as a property named name in the first function argument which is an object with other properties like attributes and className. So for examples:

// Using a Dashicons icon.
registerBlockType( 'my-guten/foo-block', {
    title: 'Foo Block',
    icon: 'heart',
    category: 'common',
    edit: function ( props ) {
        const blockType = getBlockType( props.name );

        console.log( blockType.title ); // Foo Block

        ... your code.
    },
    ... your code.
} );

// Using an SVG icon. (JSX)
registerBlockType( 'my-guten/foo-block', {
    title: 'Foo Block',
    icon: <svg viewBox="0 0 24 24" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><path fill="none" d="M0 0h24v24H0V0z" /><path d="M19 13H5v-2h14v2z" /></svg>,
    category: 'common',
    // Unpack the first argument — so that we can use "name" and not props.name.
    edit: function ( { name } ) {
        const blockType = getBlockType( name );

        ... your code.
    },
    ... your code.
} );

Example based on your code

In edit.js:

const { getBlockType } = wp.blocks;
const { Placeholder } = wp.components;

export default function Edit( { attributes, setAttributes, className, name } ) {
    const blockType = getBlockType( name );

    return (
        <Placeholder
            icon={ blockType.icon.src }
            label={ blockType.title }
        />
    );
}

In index.js:

import Edit from './edit';

const { registerBlockType } = wp.blocks;

registerBlockType( 'my-guten/foo-block', {
    edit: Edit,
    ... your code.
} );

All methods was sourced from stackoverflow.com or stackexchange.com, is licensed under cc by-sa 2.5, cc by-sa 3.0 and cc by-sa 4.0