Primitive to build things like tooltips dropdown menu's and pop-overs

by React

react-laag

Basically any kind of layer that can be toggled. Focus on what your layer should look like, and let react-laag take care of where and when to show it.

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Features

  • [x] Build your own tooltips / dropdown-menu's / pop-overs / etc...
  • [x] Not opinionated regarding styling or animations
  • [x] Highly customizable
  • [x] Only ~5kb minified and gzipped
  • [x] Zero dependencies
  • [x] Built with typescript / ships with typescript definitions
  • [x] Integrates well with other libraries
  • [x] Automatically adjusts your layer's placement to fit the screen
  • [x] Works with nested scroll-containers
  • [x] Observes and reacts to changes in dimensions

Getting started

Installation

npm install --save react-laag

or

yarn add react-laag

A first component

import React from "react";
import { ToggleLayer, anchor } from "react-laag";

function SimplePopover() {
  return (
    <ToggleLayer
      // provide placement config
      placement={{ anchor: anchor.BOTTOM_CENTER }}
      // render-prop to render our layer
      renderLayer={({ layerProps, isOpen }) =>
        // only render on `isOpen`
        isOpen && (
          <div
            // for calculation stuff
            ref={layerProps.ref}
            style={{
              // inject calculated positional styles
              ...layerProps.style

              // add your own styles
            }}
          />
        )
      }
    >
      {({ toggle, triggerRef }) => (
        <div
          // only the `triggerRef` is required...
          ref={triggerRef}
          // ...the rest is up to you
          onClick={toggle}
          style={{}}
        />
      )}
    </ToggleLayer>
  );
}

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