react-document-events

Declarative method for binding handlers to document and window - and cleaning them up.

Usage

Given an imaginary component that listens to the 'esc' key, but only if its parent tells it to:

import React from 'react';
import DocumentEvents from 'react-document-events';

class SideEffectingComponent extends React.Component {

  onKeyUp = (e) => {
    if (e.keyCode === 27 /* esc */) this.toggleSomethingOnEsc(e);
  };

  render() {
    var target = process.browser ? document : null;
    return (
      <div>
        <div>Component Innards</div>
        <DocumentEvents enabled={this.props.listenToKeys} onKeyUp={this.onKeyUp} passive={false} capture={false} />
      </div>
    );
  }
}

Props

• capture (boolean=false): If true, will add listeners in the capture phase.
• enabled (boolean=true): If true, will attach handlers, if false, will remove them. Safe to add/remove at will.
• passive (boolean=false): If true, will add listeners with the passive option, if supported. A feature test is performed to ensure this does not accidentally set useCapture.
• target ((HTMLElement | () => HTMLElement | () => void | void)=document): The element to attach listeners to. May also be a function returning said element. If void, or returning void, this element will noop.
  • To be safe when server rendering, the default is document, but only if process.browser returns true.
• on[eventName] (EventHandler): Any valid event handler name. Note these events are attached directly, so you will receive browser events, not React's SyntheticEvent, although the semantics are mostly the same.