react-responsive-link

A link component that:

• doesn't have the 300ms tap delay on mobile (even if the zoom is not fixed).
• if you need to scroll the page and happen to grab a link when you start swiping, the action of the link will not be triggered (just as it is expected on mobile).
• it is not either tap or click. That is, you can use it on a hibrid device that has both touch and mouse and it'll react appropriately to clicks and taps.

This is similar to what Fastclick does, implemented as a React component. Note that on browsers that did remove the click delay this responsive link is going to be slightly slower than the native link because of the extra code involved. Way faster than 300ms though!

Hopefully soon no browser will need this trick.

Installation

npm i @terebentina/react-responsive-link -S

Usage

var Link = require('@terebentina/react-responsive-link');

<Link onClickTap={this.doSomething}>click or tap me</Link>

The more complete example below is using ES6 and the class syntax but, obviously, you can use ES5 and regular React.createClass() as well.

import React from 'react';
import Link from '@terebentina/react-responsive-link';

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  doSomething(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    console.log('you clicked or tapped me!');
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        This is some text
        <Link onClickTap={this.doSomething}>click or tap me</Link>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

Properties

You can pass any prop to the link but the following props are "special":

• onClickTap the function to execute when the link is clicked or tapped. The function is passed the event as the first parameter.
• href can be used instead of onClickTap if you need to specify an url to go to. Note that href is not very friendly with react-router! See the example below if you want to use this together with react-router

Usage with react-router

You need to follow the Navigating Outside of Components guide from react-router. Once you create that history.js module you can make use of it for your responsive links:

import React from 'react';
import Link from '@terebentina/react-responsive-link';
import history from './history';

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  goToLink(e) {
    e.preventDefault();
    history.replaceState(null, '/some/path');
  }

  render() {
    return (
      <div>
        Click the link to
        <Link onClickTap={this.goToLink}>navigate with react-router</Link>
      </div>
    );
  }
}

License

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Dan Caragea