Generate colorful text placeholders

by React

React Spectrum

A tiny(around 1.2kb gzip) React library to generate colorful text placeholders.

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Inspired by this code illustration on CodeSandbox homepage ?

Try out the generator at react-spectrum.netlify.com ? Also, check out @BotSpectrum twitter bot that tweets randomly generated colorful text placeholders for inspiration ?

Demo

Install

NPM

npm install react-spectrum

Yarn

yarn add react-spectrum

UMD build

<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-spectrum/dist/react-spectrum.umd.js"></script>

Usage

import React from "react";
// Import library
import Spectrum from "react-spectrum";
// or const Spectrum = require('react-spectrum');

// Render the placeholder
function Placeholder() {
  return (
    <Spectrum
      width={500}
      colors={["#757575", "#999999", "#0871F2", "#BF5AF2"]}
    />
  );
}

Props

Property Type Default Description
width number 500 Width of the placeholder container
colors Array<string> ['#eee'] Possible colors of words, will be picked randomly
wordWidths Array<number> [30, 60, 90, 120, 150] Possible widths of words, will be picked randomly
wordDistances Array<number> [4, 8, 12] Possible distance between words, will be picked randomly
wordHeight number 12 Height of every word placeholder
wordRadius number 20 Border radius of every word
lineDistance number 12 Distance(margin) between the lines
linesPerParagraph number 8 Lines per paragraph. if there are multiple paragraphs, all of them will have same number of lines
paragraphs number 1 Number of paragraphs in the placeholder
paragraphDistance number 24 Distance(margin) between the paragraphs
truncateLastLine boolean true Show less words in the last line for more natural feel
renderWord function ({ key, style}) => <span key={key} style={style} /> Render word with customizations(avoid overriding passed style properties. it might break the functionality)

Submitting pull requests

Pull requests are the greatest contributions, so be sure they are focused in scope and do avoid unrelated commits.

  • Fork it!
  • Clone your fork: git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/react-spectrum
  • Navigate to the newly cloned directory: cd react-spectrum
  • Create a new branch for the new feature: git checkout -b my-new-feature
  • Install the tools necessary for development: yarn
  • Make your changes.
  • Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
  • Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
  • Submit a pull request with full remarks documenting your changes

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