A delightful and highly configurable react notifications component

react-notifications-component

A delightful, easy to use and highly configurable component to help you notify your users out of the box. No messy setup, just beautiful notifications!

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Features

Touch support
Responsive notifications
Standard notification types
Custom notification types
Custom notification content
Dismissable (touch, click, timeout)
Customizable transitions
Small library

Getting started

npm install react-notifications-component

The step below is only for typescript developers to install typed bindings:

npm install --save-dev @types/react-notifications-component

Development

First build the library

npm run build:library:dev

then run the webpack server to see the app running

npm run start

Usage

Import react-notifications-component

import ReactNotification from 'react-notifications-component'

Import the CSS theme

import 'react-notifications-component/dist/theme.css'

SASS

SASS files are located in react-notifications-component/dist/scss

Render react-notifications-component at the top of your application so that it does not conflict with other absolutely positioned DOM elements.

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div className="app-container">
      <ReactNotification />
      <Application />
    </div>
  )
};

Import store where needed - will be used to access addNotification and removeNotification API methods

import { store } from 'react-notifications-component';

Then call addNotification and watch the magic happens

store.addNotification({
  title: "Wonderful!",
  message: "teodosii@react-notifications-component",
  type: "success",
  insert: "top",
  container: "top-right",
  animationIn: ["animate__animated", "animate__fadeIn"],
  animationOut: ["animate__animated", "animate__fadeOut"],
  dismiss: {
    duration: 5000,
    onScreen: true
  }
});

Voila!

Note: We rely on animate.css in this example as animate__fadeIn and animate__fadeOut are part of animate.css. We recommend using it as it's an excellent animation library, but you're not forced to. If you prefer you may also use your custom animations as long as they're valid CSS animations.

Note: animate.css latest version (v4) has breaking changes. It introduces animate__ prefix so that existing classes don't clash. If you still would like to use classes without prefix you can import animate.css/animate.compat.css

// preferred way to import (from `v4`). Uses `animate__` prefix.
import 'animate.min.css';

// Alternate way to use classes without prefix like `animated fadeIn`
import 'animate.css/animate.compat.css'

In the examples, we will be using classes with animate__ prefix, which is the default behaviour of latest v4 version of animate.css.

For more info on how to use animate.css, please refer to animate.css docs

API

store.addNotification(options)

Render a new notification. Method returns a unique id for the rendered notification. Supplied options are internally validated and an exception will be thrown if validation fails.

store.removeNotification(id)

Manually remove a notification by id.

Examples

In the following examples for brevity some options will not be mentioned. Strictly focusing on the needed options to present each example. For reference, we will be using Object spread operator on a notification object to have non relevant fields included as well.

notification = {
  title: "Wonderful!",
  message: "Configurable",
  type: "success",
  insert: "top",
  container: "top-right",
  animationIn: ["animate__animated animate__fadeIn"], // `animate.css v4` classes
  animationOut: ["animate__animated animate__fadeOut"] // `animate.css v4` classes
};

Notification container

You have in total 6 containers for desktop and 2 for mobile, if component is set to be responsive. List of containers:

top-left
top-right
top-center
center
bottom-left
bottom-right
bottom-center

store.addNotification({
  ...notification,
  container: 'top-right'
})

Will position the notification in top right of the screen.

Notification type

List of types:

success
danger
info
default
warning

store.addNotification({
  ...notification,
  type: 'danger'
})

Will trigger a danger notification.

Animating

store.addNotification({
  ...notification, 
  animationIn: ['animate__animated animate__fadeIn'], // `animate.css v4` classes
  animationOut: ['animate__animated animate__fadeOut'] // `animate.css v4` classes
})

animationIn and animationOut rely on CSS classes that toggle animations. On github pages we rely on animate.css, we suggest you to import that package and use their animations as they have plenty.

Note: Failing to have animations set properly will lead to bugs in some causes, as react-notifications-component relies on onAnimationEnd event to know when an animation has finished.

Dismiss notification automatically after timeout expires

store.addNotification({
  ...notification,
  dismiss: {
    duration: 2000
  }
})

Dismiss notification automatically with the time left shown on UI

store.addNotification({
  ...notification,
  dismiss: {
    duration: 2000,
    onScreen: true
  }
})

Subscribe to notification's removal

Easily subscribe to onRemoval by supplying callback as option to the notification object. Callback will get called after the removal animation finishes.

store.addNotification({
  ...notification,
  onRemoval: (id, removedBy) => {
    ...
  }
})

Pause notification's timeout by hovering

store.addNotification({
  ...notification,
  dismiss: {
    duration: 2000,
    pauseOnHover: true
  }
})

Change transition

store.addNotification({
  ...notification,
  slidingExit: {
    duration: 800,
    timingFunction: 'ease-out',
    delay: 0
  }
})

slidingEnter, touchRevert and touchSlidingExit can all be configured in the same way, with the mention that touchSlidingExit has 2 transitions nested.

store.addNotification({
  ...notification,
  touchSlidingExit: {
    swipe: {
      duration: 400,
      timingFunction: 'ease-out',
      delay: 0,
    },
    fade: {
      duration: 400,
      timingFunction: 'ease-out',
      delay: 0
    }
  }
})

Props

Name	Type	Description
`isMobile`	`Boolean`	Set whether you want component to be responsive or not. To be used together with `breakpoint`
`breakpoint`	`Number`	Breakpoint for responsiveness - defaults to `768`px
`types`	`Array`	Custom types
`className`	`string`	Classes assigned to the container
`id`	`string`	Id of the container

Options

Name	Type	Description
`id`	`String`	Id of the notification. Supply option only if you prefer to have custom id, otherwise you should let the component handle generation for you.
`onRemoval`	`Function`	Gets called on notification removal with `id` and `removedBy` arguments
`title`	`String`, `React Node` or `Functional Component`	Title of the notification. Option is ignored if `content` is set, otherwise it is required.
`message`	`String`, `React Node` or `Functional Component`	Message of the notification. Option is ignored if `content` is set, otherwise it is required.
`content`	`Object`	Custom notification content, must be either Class Component, Functional Component or React element. If being supplied as functional or class component, `id` will be supplied as prop
`type`	`String`	Type of the notification. Option is ignored if `content` is set, otherwise it is required.
`container`	`String`	Container in which the notification will be displayed. Option is required.
`insert`	`String`	Specify where to append notification into the container - top or bottom. Option defaults to `top`.
`dismiss`	`Dismiss`	Specify how a notification should be dismissed.
`animationIn`	`Array`	Array of CSS classes for animating the notification's entrance.
`animationOut`	`Array`	Array of CSS classes for animating the notification's exit.
`slidingEnter`	`Transition`	Transition to be used when sliding to show a notification.
`slidingExit`	`Transition`	Transition to be used when sliding to remove a notification.
`touchRevert`	`Transition`	Transition to be used when sliding back after an incomplete swipe.
`touchSlidingExit`	`Transition`	Transition to be used when sliding on swipe.
`width`	`Number`	Overwrite notification's `width` defined by CSS

Transition

Transition is used each time you define a transition.

Name	Type	Description
`duration`	`Number`	Transition duration in ms. Its default value ranges from 300 to 600, depending on transition
`timingFunction`	`String`	CSS timing function for the transition, defaults to `linear`
`delay`	`Number`	Delay of the transition in ms, defaults to 0

Dismiss

Dismiss is used to describe how a notification should be dismissed.

Name	Type	Description
`duration`	`Number`	Time in milliseconds after notification gets dismissed. 0 will act as infinite duration. Defaults to `0`
`onScreen`	`Boolean`	Show time left directly on the notification. Defaults to `false`
`pauseOnHover`	`Boolean`	Hovering over notification will pause the dismiss timer. Defaults to `false`
`waitForAnimation`	`Boolean`	When removing a notification by default we trigger the exit animation and the transition to height 0 at the same time. Setting this to `true` will wait for the exit animation to finish and then start the transition to height 0. Defaults to `false`
`click`	`Boolean`	Enable dismissal by click, defaults to `true`
`touch`	`Boolean`	Enable dismiss by touch move, defaults to `true`
`showIcon`	`Boolean`	Show or hide the close icon, defaults to `false`. If set to `true`, it will respond to click interaction and will remove notification

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