useEventListener

React hook for element.addEventListener and element.removeEventListener.

Install

npm i @toolia/use-event-listener

or

yarn add @toolia/use-event-listener

Requires React >= 16.8.0 installed

Arguments

(targetElement, eventName, eventHandler[, { initialiseOnAttach = false, logAttachChange = false }, listenerOpts])

These arguments are used to add / remove event listeners like so:

targetElement.addEventListener(eventName, eventHandler, listenerOpts);

initialiseOnAttach will trigger eventHandler when the event listener is first attached.

logAttachChange will console.warn when either .addEventListener or .removeEventListener are called.

Example usage

This example registers the 'resize' event listener with a throttled handler function to obtain the viewport width and height.

import React, { useState, useCallback } from "react";
import useEventListener from '@toolia/use-event-listener';
import { throttle } from 'throttle-debounce';

const Viewport = () => {
  const [{ width, height}, setSize] = useState(initialSize);

  const throttledGetWindowSize = useCallback(throttle(300, e => {
    const target = e.target;
    console.log('resizing with', target.innerWidth);
    setSize({
      width: target.innerWidth,
      height: target.innerHeight
    });
  }), [ throttle ]);

  const [listeningToSize, setListenToSize] = useEventListener(window, 'resize',
    throttledGetWindowSize,
    {
      initialiseOnAttach: true,
      logAttachChange: true
    }
  );
  
  return (
    <div>
      <p>width: {width}</p>
      <p>height: {height}</p>
      <p>Listening to resize? {!!listeningToSize}</p>
      <button onClick={()=>setListenToSize(b => !b)}>{listeningToSize ? 'Stop listening' : 'Listen'}</button>
    </div>
  );
};