Chakra-UI Bottom Navigation

Chakra-UI Bottom Navigation is an accessible and reusable component built to work seamlessly with Chakra-UI.

Check the demo

Features

• Multiple variants
• Easily modifed
• Composable
• And more...

Install

npm install chakra-ui-bottom-navigation
# or
yarn add chakra-ui-bottom-navigation

NOTE: this component requries Chakra-UI >= v1.0.0 to work properly. You can follow instructions for installing Chakara-UI or instructions for migrating to v1

Theme

By default, this component comes with some predefined styles. To utilize this styles add them to theme overrides.

import { ChakraProvider, extendTheme } from '@chakra-ui/react';
import { BottomNavigationStyleConfig as BottomNavigation } from 'chakra-ui-bottom-navigation';

const theme = extendTheme({
  components: {
    BottomNavigation,
  },
});

export const App = () => {
  return (
    <ChakraProvider theme={theme}>
      <App />
    </ChakraProvider>
  );
};

WithDefaultTheme

If you want to expand defualt styles of the component, use the withDefaultStyles HOC. Component override follows the same structure as all other Chakra-UI components. Check the guide here.

import { withDefaultStyles } from 'chakra-ui-bottom-navigation';

const bottomNavigationOverries = {
  // ... component's override
};

const MyBottomNavigation = withDefaultStyles(bottomNavigationOverries);

const theme = extendTheme({
  components: {
    BottomNavigation: MyBottomNavigation,
  },
});

Import

Chakra-UI Bottom Navigation exports 4 component:

• BottomNavigation: The wrapper that provides context for all children.
• BottomNavigationItem: A single Bottom Navigation element
• BottomNavigationIcon: An icon used to render the item
• BottomNavigationLabel: A label used to label an item

Usage

export const BasicExample = () => {
  const [value, setValue] = useState(0);

  return (
    <BottomNavigation value={value} onChange={setValue}>
      <BottomNavigationItem>
        <BottomNavigationIcon as={HomeIcon} />
        <BottomNavigationLabel>Home</BottomNavigationLabel>
      </BottomNavigationItem>

      <BottomNavigationItem>
        <BottomNavigationIcon as={SearchIcon} />
        <BottomNavigationLabel>Search</BottomNavigationLabel>
      </BottomNavigationItem>

      <BottomNavigationItem>
        <BottomNavigationIcon as={StarIcon} />
        <BottomNavigationLabel>Favourites</BottomNavigationLabel>
      </BottomNavigationItem>
    </BottomNavigation>
  );
};

Bottom navigation as app navigation

export const NavigationExample = () => {
  const router = useRouter();

  const handleChange = useCallback(
    (path) => {
      router.push(path);
    },
    [router.push]
  );

  return (
    <BottomNavigation value={router.pathname} onChange={handleChange}>
      <BottomNavigationItem value="/">
        <BottomNavigationIcon as={HomeIcon} />
        <BottomNavigationLabel>Home</BottomNavigationLabel>
      </BottomNavigationItem>

      <BottomNavigationItem value="/search">
        <BottomNavigationIcon as={SearchIcon} />
        <BottomNavigationLabel>Search</BottomNavigationLabel>
      </BottomNavigationItem>

      <BottomNavigationItem value="/favorites">
        <BottomNavigationIcon as={StarIcon} />
        <BottomNavigationLabel>Favorites</BottomNavigationLabel>
      </BottomNavigationItem>
    </BottomNavigation>
  );
};

Props

BottomNavigation props

BottomNavigation composes Box so you call pass all Box related props.

| Prop name | Description | Default value | Values | | ------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ------------- | ------------------------------------------------------ | | colorScheme | | blue | all default chakra-ui colorSchemes (can be extended) | | onChange | function that is called when item is selected | | | | showLabel | determines when label should be visible | always | 'never' \| 'if-active' \| 'always' | | value | active value of bottom navigation | | |

BottomNavigationItem props

BottomNavigationItem composes Button so you call pass all Button related props.

| Prop name | Description | Default value | Values | | --------- | ----------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ------ | | value | Value that will be passed to onChange handler | by default, value is set to index of the item | |

BottomNavigationIcon props

BottomNavigationItem composes Icon so you call pass all Icon related props.

BottomNavigationLabel props

BottomNavigationItem composes Box so you call pass all Box related props.

Every BottomNavigationItem should have BottomNavigationLabel so assistive technologies can label the element. If label is now show (inactive when showLabel: 'if-active' or when showLabel: 'never'`), the label is only hidden from the screen but it is still rendered in the DOM.