React Parallax Mouse

❤️ A lightweight react component to add a mouse parallax effect to your website

? Efficient and lag free animations optimized for performance

? Using react-motion under the hood for fluid animations

? Ready to use and provided with types

What is the Mouse Parallax Effect?

➔ The parallax effect creates the illusion of depth when the cursor moves inside a specified container. The child of the container which is farthest from the user moves at the slowest speed, while the nearest child moves at the fastest speed. It uses the mouse cursor position on the container and creates the illusion of depth for the layers visible in the container. For example, your cursor enters the slider and the layers start to move away or approach to the cursor.

(Read more at https://smartslider3.com/blog/parallax-effect/)

Example

➔ An editable example can be found on CodeSandbox below.

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Getting Started

➔ npm

npm install react-parallax-mouse

➔ yarn

yarn add react-parallax-mouse

Usage

import { MouseParallaxContainer, MouseParallaxChild } from "react-parallax-mouse";

The library provides you with two components.

MouseParallaxContainer

➔ The main container in which the effect will take place. It takes in an infinite amount of MouseParallaxChild components as its children.

MouseParallaxChild

➔ The layer component for the effect. It provides a container for all of its children, which will stay on the same layer. Only works within the MouseParallaxContainer component.

Example

<MouseParallaxContainer>
    <MouseParallaxChild factorX={0.03} factorY={0.05} >
        <img src="example1.jpg" alt="" />
    </MouseParallaxChild>
    <MouseParallaxChild factorX={0.07} factorY={0.08}>
        <img src="example2.jpg" alt="" />
    </MouseParallaxChild>
</MouseParallaxContainer>

Props

➔ MouseParallaxContainer

prop type description
resetOnLeave boolean Resets the view to 0:0 offset when the mouse leaves the container
useWindowMouseEvents boolean Uses the window event handler instead of the container event handler to track mouse movement
inverted boolean Inverts the offset of ParallaxChildren on mouse movement
globalFactorX number (default: 1) Strength multiplier of the effect on the X axis for every child component
globalFactorY number (default: 1) Strength multiplier of the effect on the Y axis for every child component
containerStyles React.CSSProperties (Object) Additional CSS attributes which are applied directly to the parallax container element (equal to style on HTML elements)
disableCSSTransition boolean Disables a CSS transition which smoothens the transform
className string The class name of the container

➔ MouseParallaxChild

prop type description
factorX (!) number Strength factor for the movement on the X axis
factorY (!) number Strength factor for the movement on the Y axis
inverted boolean Inverts the offset of the specific child element on mouse movement
springConfig SpringHelperConfig React Motion Spring Config (https://github.com/chenglou/react-motion#helpers)
updateStyles React.CSSProperties (Object) or Middleware Function (Explained below) Additional CSS attributes which are applied directly to the parallax child container element (equal to style on HTML elements) on each offset calculation - A Middleware function can be used
className string The class name of the child

Middleware

➔ updateStyles in the MouseParallaxChild Props can be supplied with a middleware function instead of a regular CSS styles object. This function takes in one argument.

updateStyles={(offset) => (
    {
        // Return some kind of CSS styles
    }
)}

The offset argument is an object with the following structure:


{
    container: {
        x: number,
        y: number
    },
    px: {
        x: number,
        y: number
    },
    percentage: {
        x: number,
        y: number
    };
}
Middleware description
container Dimensions of the MouseParallaxContainer
px Offset of the mouse to the middle of the container in pixels
percentage Offset of the mouse to the middle of the container in %

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GitHub

https://github.com/choozn/react-parallax-mouse