Copy some text to the clipboard using the brower's DOM API

copy-text-to-clipboard.js

export default function copyTextToClipboard(text) {
  let textArea = document.createElement("textarea");
  textArea.value = text;
  document.body.appendChild(textArea);
  textArea.select();

  try {
    // Now that we've selected the anchor text, execute the copy command
    let successful = document.execCommand('copy');
    let message = successful ? 'successful' : 'unsuccessful';
    console.log(`Copy email command was ${message}`);
  } catch(error) {
    console.error(`Oops, unable to copy: ${error}`);
  }

  document.body.removeChild(textArea);
}