react-stack-grid

Pinterest like layout components for React.js.

Table of Contents

• Live Demo
• Install
• Quick Example
• Props
• Instance API
  • updateLayout(): void
• Animations
• Tips
  • Performance when using images
  • When animation is unnecessary
  • How to manually update layout ?
  • Responsive layout
• Thanks
• License
• ChangeLog
• Author
• Development
• Contribution

Live Demo

https://tsuyoshiwada.github.io/react-stack-grid/

Install

You can install the react-stack-grid from npm.

$ npm install react-stack-grid

Quick Example

Following code is simplest usage.

import React, { Component } from "react";
import StackGrid from "react-stack-grid";

class MyComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <StackGrid
        columnWidth={150}
      >
        <div key="key1">Item 1</div>
        <div key="key2">Item 2</div>
        <div key="key3">Item 3</div>
      </StackGrid>
    );
  }
}

width of parent is managed by react-sizeme.

Props

You can set the following properties.

Property	Type	Default	Description
className	PropTypes.string	undefined	Specify className of component.
style	PropTypes.object	{}	Original style of component. Following styles are ignored. (position, height, transition)
gridRef	PropTypes.func	null	Reference the instance of StackGrid. Unlike ordinary ref, it accepts only functions.
component	PropTypes.string	"div"	See ReactTransitionGroup
itemComponent	PropTypes.string	"span"	Specify the component of the grid item.
columnWidth	PropTypes.oneOfType([PropTypes.number, PropTypes.string])	150	Specify column width as an number(px), or percentage string. (Example "33.33%")
gutterWidth	PropTypes.number	5	Specify gutter width as an number.
gutterHeight	PropTypes.number	5	Specify gutter height as an number.
duration	PropTypes.number	480	Specify duration of animation in ms.
easing	PropTypes.string	easings.quartOut	Specify a css valid transition-timing-function string. It can be easily specification by using easings.
appearDelay	PropTypes.number	30	Specify delay of the initial animation in ms.
appear	PropTypes.func	fadeUp.appear	See Animations section.
appeared	PropTypes.func	fadeUp.appear	...
enter	PropTypes.func	fadeUp.appear	...
entered	PropTypes.func	fadeUp.appear	...
leaved	PropTypes.func	fadeUp.appear	...
units	PropTypes.func	{ length: "px", angle: "deg" }	...
monitorImagesLoaded	PropTypes.bool	false	If set to true, images reading is monitored. use imagesloaded.
vendorPrefix	PropTypes.bool	false	If set to true, add a vendor prefix to styles add dynamically.
userAgent	PropTypes.string	undefined	Specify userAgent for determinig the vendor prefix. See inline-style-prefixer.
enableSSR	PropTypes.bool	false	Render component on the server side. More info.
onLayout	PropTypes.func	null	It is called at the timing when the layout is confirmed, or at the updated timing. (Called only by client.)
horizontal	PropTypes.bool	false	The transposed (horizontal) order of drawing elements. Retains the original order of the items.
rtl	PropTypes.bool	false	When true, items are placed right-to-left instead of the default left-to-right. Useful for RTL languages such as Arabic and Hebrew.

Instance API

updateLayout(): void

Update the current layout.

Animations

The following function must return styles related to animation.
See ReactTransitionGroup for details.

• appear
• appeared
• enter
• entered
• leaved

You can use extended syntax for transform's style. For example properties like translateX and scale.
See easy-css-transform-builder.

Each function is given the following arguments.

• rect: { top: number; left: number; width: number; height: number; }
• containerSize: { width: number; height: number; }
• index: number

It is easiest to use them because you have several presets.

• fade
• fadeDown
• fadeUp
• scaleDown
• scaleUp
• flip
• helix

It's an actual use example.

import StackGrid, { transitions } from "react-stack-grid";

const { scaleDown } = transitions;

class MyComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <StackGrid
        ...
        appear={scaleDown.appear}
        appeared={scaleDown.appeared}
        enter={scaleDown.enter}
        entered={scaleDown.entered}
        leaved={scaleDown.leaved}
      >
        ...
      </StackGrid>
    );
  }
}

Please try actual demonstration in live demo.

Tips

Performance when using images

When true is specified for monitorImagesLoaded, reloading occurs when the image loading is completed.
If you know the size in advance, specify monitorImagesLoaded as false.

When animation is unnecessary

By default animation is enabled.
If it's not necessary, specify 0 for duration property.

<StackGrid
  ...
  duration={0}
>
  ...
</StackGrid/>

How to manually update layout ?

If the size of an item is changed by an action such as a click event, there are cases where you want to update the layout manually.
You can manually update the layout by referring to the StackGrid instance with gridRef and executing theupdateLayout() method.

class MyComponent extends React.Component {

  // When the size of the item is changed...
  something = () => {
    this.grid.updateLayout();
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <StackGrid
        gridRef={grid => this.grid = grid}
      >
        {/* items ... */}
      </StackGrid>
    );
  }
}

Responsive layout

You can get width using react-sizeme and change columnWidth according to width.
This is a solution, but we can respond in other ways!

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import sizeMe from 'react-sizeme';
import StackGrid from 'react-stack-grid';

class YourComponent extends Component {
  render() {
    const { 
      size: { 
        width
      } 
    } = this.props;

    return (
      <StackGrid
        // more...
        columnWidth={width <= 768 ? '100%' : '33.33%'}
      >
        // Grid items...
      </StackGrid>
    );
  }
}

export default sizeMe()(YourComponent);

Thanks

• Layout inspired by Pinterest.
• API inspired by dantrain/react-stonecutter.

License

Released under the MIT Licence

ChangeLog

See CHANGELOG.md

Author

tsuyoshiwada

Development

Initialization of the project.

$ cd /your/project/dir
$ git clone https://github.com/tsuyoshiwada/react-stack-grid.git

Install some dependencies.

$ npm install

Start the development and can you see demo page (access to the http://localhost:3000/).

$ npm start

Run lint and testing.

$ npm test

Generates build file.

$ npm run build

Contribution

Thank you for your interest in react-stack-grid.js.
Bugs, feature requests and comments are more than welcome in the issues.

Before you open a PR:

Be careful to follow the code style of the project. Run npm test after your changes and ensure you do not introduce any new errors or warnings. All new features and changes need documentation.

Thanks!