react-insta-stories-wh
v1.0.3
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A React component for Instagram like stories
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What's new in v2? 🚀
- Render your own components/JSX in stories
- Create multiple instances to recreate stories by multiple users easily, jump to stories using props
- Prop based control, event callbacks
- Custom JSX gives control to pause/play story
- (for devs) TypeScript 🎉
- (for devs) Updated for easier feature additions, hooks
Install
npm install --save react-insta-stories
Demo
The component responds to actions like tap on right side for next story, on left for previous and tap and hold for pause. Custom time duration for each story can be provided. See it in action here: https://mohitk05.github.io/react-insta-stories/
Usage
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Stories from 'react-insta-stories';
const App = () => {
return (
<Stories
stories={stories}
defaultInterval={1500}
width={432}
height={768}
/>
);
};
Here stories
is an array of story objects, which can be of various types as described below.
Props
| Property | Type | Default | Description |
| ----------------- | --------------- | ------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| stories
| [String/Object] | required
| An array of image urls or array of story objects (options described below) |
| defaultInterval
| Number | 1200 | Milliseconds duration for which a story persists |
| loader
| Component | Ripple loader | A loader component as a fallback until image loads from url |
| header
| Component | Default header as in demo | A header component which sits at the top of each story. It receives the header
object from the story
object. Data for header to be sent with each story object. |
| width
| Number | 360 | Width of the component in pixels |
| height
| Number | 640 | Height of the component in pixels |
| storyStyles
| Object | none | Override the default story styles mentioned below. |
| loop
| Boolean | false | The last story loop to the first one and restart the stories. |
| New props | ⭐️ | ⭐️ | ⭐️ |
| isPaused
| Boolean | false | Toggle story playing state |
| currentIndex
| Number | undefined | Set the current story index |
| onStoryStart
| Function | - | Callback when a story starts |
| onStoryEnd
| Function | - | Callback when a story ends |
| onAllStoriesEnd
| Function | - | Callback when all stories in the array have ended |
Story object
Instead of simple string url, a comprehensive 'story object' can also be passed in the stories
array.
| Property | Description |
| ---------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| url
| The url of the resource, be it image or video. |
| duration
| Optional. Duration for which a story should persist. |
| header
| Optional. Adds a header on the top. Object with heading
, subheading
and profileImage
properties. |
| seeMore
| Optional. Adds a see more icon at the bottom of the story. On clicking, opens up this component. (v2: updated to Function instead of element) |
| type
| Optional. To distinguish a video story. type: 'video'
is necessary for a video story. |
| styles
| Optional. Override the default story styles mentioned below. |
Default story styles
Following are the default story content styles. Override them by providing your own style object with each story or a global override by using the storyStyles
prop.
storyContent: {
width: 'auto',
maxWidth: '100%',
maxHeight: '100%',
margin: 'auto'
}
Common Usage
1. Basic implementation with string URLs
If you wish to have a bare minimum setup and only need to show image stories, you can simply pass the image urls inside the stories
array.
This will show all your images as stories.
import Stories from 'react-insta-stories';
const stories = [
'https://example.com/pic.jpg',
'data:image/jpg;base64,R0lGODl....',
'https://mohitkarekar.com/icon.png',
];
return () => <Stories stories={stories} />;
2. Customising stories
If plain images does not suffice your usecase, you can pass an object instead of a string. This object supports all the properties mentioned above in the section story object. While using the object type, use url
to denote the source url in case of media.
These properties can be mixed in different ways to obtain desired output.
Duration
Each story can be set to have a different duration.
const stories = [
'https://example.com/pic.jpg',
{
url: 'https://example.com/pic2.jpg',
duration: 5000,
},
];
Header
Adds a header to the story.
const stories = [
'https://example.com/pic.jpg',
{
url: 'https://example.com/pic2.jpg',
duration: 5000,
header: {
heading: 'Mohit Karekar',
subheading: 'Posted 30m ago',
profileImage: 'https://picsum.photos/100/100',
},
},
];
See More
Adds a click to see more option at the bottom of the story. When present, shows the arrow at the bottom and when clicked, shows the provided component.
const stories = [
'https://example.com/pic.jpg',
{
url: 'https://example.com/pic2.jpg',
duration: 5000,
seeMore: SeeMore, // some component
},
{
url: 'https://example.com/pic3.jpg',
duration: 2000,
seeMore: ({ close }) => {
return <div onClick={close}>Hello, click to close this.</div>;
},
},
];
Type
If provided type: video
, then the component loads a video player. All expected features come in automatically. Duration is ignored, if provided and actual video duration is considered.
const stories = [
'https://example.com/pic.jpg',
{
url: 'https://example.com/vid.mp4',
duration: 5000, // ignored
type: 'video',
},
];
Styles
Override default story element styles. Regular style object can be provided.
3. Custom JSX as a story
You can render custom JSX inside a story by sending a content
property inside the story object. If a content
property is present, all other media related properties are ignored. duration
holds true here.
const stories = [
'https://example.com/pic.jpg',
{
content: (props) => (
<div style={{ background: 'pink', padding: 20 }}>
<h1 style={{ marginTop: '100%', marginBottom: 0 }}>🌝</h1>
<h1 style={{ marginTop: 5 }}>A custom title can go here.</h1>
</div>
),
},
];
The content property can hold any React component. For further control, it receives two important props:
action
It allows you to fire play/pause actions.isPaused
Holds true is the story is currently paused, false otherwise.
const stories = [
'https://example.com/pic.jpg',
{
content: ({ action, isPaused }) => {
useEffect(() => {
setTimeout(() => {
action('pause');
setTimeout(() => {
action('play');
}, 2000);
}, 2000);
}, []);
return (
<div style={{ background: 'pink', padding: 20 }}>
<h1 style={{ marginTop: '100%', marginBottom: 0 }}>🌝</h1>
<h1>{isPaused ? 'Paused' : 'Playing'}</h1>
</div>
);
},
},
];
In the code above, on render a timeout will be set which would fire a 'pause' action after 2 seconds. Again after 2 seconds, a 'play' action would be fired.
In the JSX, isPaused
is used to display the current play state.
Development
To develop this package locally, you can follo these steps:
- Clone the repo to your local.
- Run
npm install
. - Then
cd example && npm install
- Come back to the root directory
cd ..
- Run
npm start
- In a new command window/tab, run
npm run example
.
This will start a hot-reloading setup with a live example.
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License
MIT © mohitk05