✨(react) render Button as link

For a variety of reasons, such as accessibility or integration with
external react-router deps style we needed to be able to provide the
ability to render the Button component as link in order to be able
to provide link-specific attribute for rendering such as href.

packages/react/src/components/Button/index.scss

@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@
   border: thin solid transparent;
   box-sizing: border-box;
   cursor: pointer;
-  display: flex;
+  display: inline-flex;
+  // When button is rendered as link.
+  text-decoration: none;
   font-weight: var(--c--components--button--font-weight);
   font-family: var(--c--components--button--font-family);
   transition: all var(--c--theme--transitions--duration) var(--c--theme--transitions--ease-out);

packages/react/src/components/Button/index.spec.tsx

@@ -65,6 +65,21 @@ describe("<Button/>", () => {
     expect(handleClick).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
   });
 
+  it("renders as link when href is used", () => {
+    render(
+      <Button
+        href="https://www.fun-mooc.fr/"
+        target="_blank"
+        rel="noopener noreferrer"
+      >
+        Open link
+      </Button>,
+    );
+    const button = screen.getByRole("link", { name: "Open link" });
+    expect(button).toHaveAttribute("target", "_blank");
+    expect(button).toHaveAttribute("rel", "noopener noreferrer");
+  });
+
   it("uses custom token", async () => {
     await buildTheme();
     const tokens = await loadTokens();

packages/react/src/components/Button/index.stories.tsx

@@ -103,3 +103,14 @@ export const IconOnly: Story = {
     color: "primary",
   },
 };
+
+export const AsLink: Story = {
+  args: {
+    children: "Go to fun-mooc.fr",
+    icon: <span className="material-icons">link</span>,
+    color: "primary",
+    href: "https://www.fun-mooc.fr/",
+    target: "_blank",
+    rel: "noopener noreferrer",
+  },
+};

packages/react/src/components/Button/index.tsx

@@ -1,15 +1,24 @@
-import React, { ButtonHTMLAttributes, forwardRef, ReactNode } from "react";
+import React, {
+  AnchorHTMLAttributes,
+  ButtonHTMLAttributes,
+  createElement,
+  forwardRef,
+  ReactNode,
+} from "react";
 
-export interface ButtonProps extends ButtonHTMLAttributes<HTMLButtonElement> {
-  color?: "primary" | "secondary" | "tertiary" | "danger";
-  size?: "medium" | "small" | "nano";
-  icon?: ReactNode;
-  iconPosition?: "left" | "right";
-  active?: boolean;
-  fullWidth?: boolean;
-}
+export type ButtonProps = ButtonHTMLAttributes<HTMLButtonElement> &
+  AnchorHTMLAttributes<HTMLAnchorElement> & {
+    color?: "primary" | "secondary" | "tertiary" | "danger";
+    size?: "medium" | "small" | "nano";
+    icon?: ReactNode;
+    iconPosition?: "left" | "right";
+    active?: boolean;
+    fullWidth?: boolean;
+  };
 
-export const Button = forwardRef<HTMLButtonElement, ButtonProps>(
+export type ButtonElement = HTMLButtonElement & HTMLAnchorElement;
+
+export const Button = forwardRef<ButtonElement, ButtonProps>(
   (
     {
       children,
@@ -43,13 +52,19 @@ export const Button = forwardRef<HTMLButtonElement, ButtonProps>(
       classes.push("c__button--full-width");
     }
     const iconElement = <span className="c__button__icon">{icon}</span>;
-    // const iconElement = icon;
-    return (
-      <button className={classes.join(" ")} {...props} ref={ref}>
+    const tagName = props.href ? "a" : "button";
+    return createElement(
+      tagName,
+      {
+        className: classes.join(" "),
+        ...props,
+        ref,
+      },
+      <>
         {!!icon && iconPosition === "left" && iconElement}
         {children}
         {!!icon && iconPosition === "right" && iconElement}
-      </button>
+      </>,
     );
   },
 );

packages/react/src/components/Forms/DatePicker/CalendarCell.tsx

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import {
   isToday,
 } from "@internationalized/date";
 import { CalendarState, RangeCalendarState } from "@react-stately/calendar";
-import { Button } from ":/components/Button";
+import { Button, ButtonElement } from ":/components/Button";
 
 interface CalendarCellProps {
   state: CalendarState | RangeCalendarState;
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ const isRangeCalendar = (object: any): object is RangeCalendarState => {
 };
 
 export const CalendarCell = ({ state, date }: CalendarCellProps) => {
-  const ref = useRef<HTMLButtonElement>(null);
+  const ref = useRef<ButtonElement>(null);
   const {
     cellProps,
     buttonProps,