React-typing-animation

A fully-featured typing animation in React that supports any valid JSX.

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Motivation

There were other JS typing animations that existed when I created this, but they were all lacking in robust features. This component aims to support all of the following features:

✅ Type text from any valid JSX

✅ Preserve DOM structure/styling

✅ Change typing speed anywhere in tree

✅ Add a delay anywhere in tree

✅ Backspace animation

✅ Reset lines / full tree

✅ Loop functionality

✅ No dependencies (CSS or JS)

Demo

git clone https://github.com/adamjking3/react-typing-animation
cd react-typing-animation
npm install
npm start

Then open http://localhost:3000/ in a browser.

Feature requests and pull requests welcome

Installation

npm i --save react-typing-animation

Usage

import Typing from 'react-typing-animation';

const AnimatedTypingComponent = () => (
  <Typing>
    <span>This span will get typed.</span>
  </Typing>
);

Documentation

Property Type Default Required
children React node yes
className string no
cursor React node <Cursor /> no
speed number 50 (ms) no
startDelay number 0 (ms) no
loop boolean false no
onFinishedTyping function () => {} no

Backspace Component

import Typing from 'react-typing-animation';
...
  <Typing>
    <span>This span will get typed, then erased.</span>
    <Typing.Backspace count={20} />
  </Typing>
Property Type Default Required Description
count number 1 false
delay number 0 false
speed number -1 false

Delay Component

import Typing from 'react-typing-animation';
...
  <Typing>
    <div>
      There will be a 1000ms delay here,
      <Typing.Delay ms={1000} />
      then this will be typed.
    </div>
  </Typing>
Property Type Default Required Description
ms number yes

Speed Component

import Typing from 'react-typing-animation';
...
  <Typing speed={50}>
    This line will be typed at 50ms/character,
    <Typing.Speed ms={200} />
    then this will be typed at 200ms/character.
  </Typing>
Property Type Default Required Description
ms number yes

Reset Component

import Typing from 'react-typing-animation';
...
  <Typing>
    <span>This line will stay.</span>
    <span>This line will get instantly removed after a 500 ms delay</span>
    <Typing.Reset count={1} delay={500} />
  </Typing>
Property Type Default Required Description
count number 0 false
delay number 0 false
speed number -1 false

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