Easily apply tilt hover effect on React components

React Tilt

Easily apply tilt hover effect on React components.

Install

npm install react-parallax-tilt

Features

Lightweight (<4kb), zero dependencies ?
Supports mouse and touch events
Support for device tilting (gyroscope)
Glare effect ? with custom props (color, position,...) ?demo
Events to keep track of component values ? (tilt, glare, mousemove,...) ?demo
Many effects and functionalities that can be easily applied:
- scale on hover ?demo
- disable x/y axis ?demo
- flip component vertically/horizontally ?demo
- tilt hover effect on the whole window ?demo
- tilt component with custom manual input ? (joystick, slider etc.) ?demo
- parallax effect on overlaid images ?demo

Example

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import Tilt from 'react-parallax-tilt';

const App = () => {
  return (
    <Tilt>
      <div style={{ height: '300px', backgroundColor: 'darkgreen' }}>
        <h1>React Parallax Tilt ?</h1>
      </div>
    </Tilt>
  );
};

ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));

Props

All of the props are optional.
Below is the complete list of possible props and their options:

▶︎ indicates the default value if there's one

tiltEnable: boolean ▶︎ true
Boolean to enable/disable tilt effect.

tiltReverse: boolean ▶︎ false
Reverse the tilt direction.

tiltAngleXInitial: number ▶︎ 0
Initial tilt value (degrees) on x axis.

tiltAngleYInitial: number ▶︎ 0
Initial tilt value (degrees) on y axis.

tiltMaxAngleX: number ▶︎ 20
Range: 0 - 90
Max tilt rotation (degrees) on x axis.

tiltMaxAngleY: number ▶︎ 20
Range: 0 - 90
Max tilt rotation (degrees) on y axis.

tiltAxis: Axis | null ▶︎ null
Axis = 'x' | 'y'
Which axis should be enabled. If null both are enabled.

tiltAngleXManual: number | null} ▶︎ null
Manual tilt rotation (degrees) on x axis.

tiltAngleYManual: number | null} ▶︎ null
Manual tilt rotation (degrees) on y axis.

glareEnable: boolean ▶︎ false
Boolean to enable/disable glare effect.

glareMaxOpacity: number ▶︎ 0.7
Range: 0 - 1
The maximum glare opacity (0.5 = 50%, 1 = 100%, etc.).

glareColor: string ▶︎ #ffffff
Set color of glare effect.

glarePosition: GlarePosition ▶︎ bottom
GlarePosition = 'top' | 'right' | 'bottom' | 'left' | 'all'
Set position of glare effect.

glareReverse: boolean ▶︎ false
Reverse the glare direction.

scale: number ▶︎ 1
Scale of the component (1.5 = 150%, 2 = 200%, etc.).

perspective: number ▶︎ 1000
The perspective property defines how far the object (wrapped/child component) is away from the user.
The lower the more extreme the tilt gets.

flipVertically: boolean ▶︎ false
Boolean to enable/disable vertical flip of component.

flipHorizontally: boolean ▶︎ false
Boolean to enable/disable horizontal flip of component.

reset: boolean ▶︎ true
If the effects has to be reset on onLeave event.

transitionEasing: string ▶︎ cubic-bezier(.03,.98,.52,.99)
Easing of the transition when manipulating the component.

transitionSpeed: number ▶︎ 400
Speed of the transition when manipulating the component.

trackOnWindow: boolean ▶︎ false
Track mouse and touch events on the whole window.

gyroscope: boolean ▶︎ false
Boolean to enable/disable device orientation detection.

onMove: Function => (tiltAngleX: number, tiltAngleY: number, tiltAngleXPercentage: number, tiltAngleYPercentage: number, glareAngle: number, glareOpacity: number, eventType: string | null)
Gets triggered when user moves on the component.

onEnter: Function => (eventType: string | null)
Gets triggered when user enters the component.

onLeave: Function => (eventType: string | null)
Gets triggered when user leaves the component.

Gyroscope - Device Orientation

Please keep in mind that detecting device orientation is currently experimental technology.
Check the browser compatibility before using this in production.
A few takeaways when using device orientation event:

always use secure origins (such as https)
it doesn't work in all browsers when using it in cross-origin <iframe> element

Using device orientation on iOS 13+

Apple decided turning device motion and orientation off by default since iOS 12.2.
With iOS 13+ permission API can be used to gain access to device orientation event.

When using gyroscope feature:

  <Tilt gyroscope={true}}>
    <h1>React Parallax Tilt ?</h1>
  </Tilt>

it will present a permission dialog prompting the user to allow motion and orientation access at domain level:

Note that user needs to take some action (like tapping a button) to be able to display the dialog (invoking dialog on page load is not possible).

Development

Easily set up a local development environment!

Build all the examples and start storybook server on localhost:9009:

clone
npm install
npm start

or with npm link
Clone this repo on your machine, navigate to its location in the terminal and run:

npm install
npm link # link your local repo to your global packages
npm run build:watch # build the files and watch for changes

Clone project repo that you wish to test with react-parallax-tilt library and run:

npm install
npm link react-parallax-tilt # link your local copy into this project's node_modules
npm start