Port of Paul Irish's Lite YouTube Embed to a React Component. Provide videos with a supercharged focus on visual performance. The gain is not the same as the web component of the original implementation but saves some requests and gives you more control of the embed visual. An "Adaptive Loading" way to handle iframes for YouTube.

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🔒 Up 2.0.0 Privacy by Default

The biggest change is, from 2.0.0 this component is private by default. Meaning that will not preconnect with the ad network from Google and connect to YouTube via the Privacy-Enhanced Mode using https://www.youtube-nocookie.com.

🚀 Install

Use your favorite package manager:

yarn add react-lite-youtube-embed

npm install react-lite-youtube-embed -S

🕹️ Basic Usage

import React from "react";
import { render } from "react-dom";
import LiteYouTubeEmbed from 'react-lite-youtube-embed';
import 'react-lite-youtube-embed/dist/LiteYouTubeEmbed.css'

const App = () => (
  <div>
    <LiteYouTubeEmbed 
        id="L2vS_050c-M"
        title="What’s new in Material Design for the web (Chrome Dev Summit 2019)"
    />
  </div>
);

render(<App />, document.getElementById("root"));

And that's it.

💎 Pro Usage

const App = () => (
  <div>
    <LiteYouTubeEmbed
       id="L2vS_050c-M" // Default none, id of the video or playlist
       adNetwork={true} // Default true, to preconnect or not to doubleclick addresses called by YouTube iframe (the adnetwork from Google)
       params="" // any params you want to pass to the URL, assume we already had '&' and pass your parameters string
       playlist={false} // Use  true when your ID be from a playlist
       playlistCoverId="L2vS_050c-M" // The ids for playlists did not bring the cover in a pattern to render so you'll need pick up a video from the playlist (or in fact, whatever id) and use to render the cover. There's a programmatic way to get the cover from YouTube API v3 but the aim of this component is do not make any another call and reduce requests and bandwidth usage as much as possibe
       poster="hqdefault" // Defines the image size to call on first render as poster image. Possible values are "default","mqdefault",  "hqdefault", "sddefault" and "maxresdefault". Default value for this prop is "hqdefault". Please be aware that "sddefault" and "maxresdefault", high resolution images are not always avaialble for every video. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068344/how-do-i-get-a-youtube-video-thumbnail-from-the-youtube-api
       title="YouTube Embed" // a11y, always provide a title for iFrames: https://dequeuniversity.com/tips/provide-iframe-titles Help the web be accessible ;)
       noCookie={true} //Default false, connect to YouTube via the Privacy-Enhanced Mode using https://www.youtube-nocookie.com
    />
  </div>
);

🧰 Bring Your Own Styles

React Lite YouTube Embed comes with all original styles from Paul Irish's Lite YouTube Embed but you can customize them as you wish passing as a props.

const App = () => (
  <div>
    <LiteYouTubeEmbed
       id="L2vS_050c-M"
       activeClass="lyt-activated" // Default as "lyt-activated", gives control to wrapper once clicked
       iframeClass="" // Default none, gives control to add a class to iframe element itself
       playerClass="lty-playbtn" // Default as "lty-playbtn" to control player button styles
       wrapperClass="yt-lite" // Default as "yt-lite" for the div wrapping the area, the most important class and needs extra attention, please refer to LiteYouTubeEmbed.css for a reference.
    />
  </div>
);

⚠️ After version 1.0.0 - BREAKING CHANGES ⚠️

To play nice with new frameworks like NextJS, we now don't import the .css necessary. Since version 2.0.9 you can pass custom aspect-ratio props, so be aware of any changes needed in the CSS options. Instead use now you have three options:

Option 1

Place the necessary CSS in your Global CSS file method of preference

.yt-lite {
    background-color: #000;
    position: relative;
    display: block;
    contain: content;
    background-position: center center;
    background-size: cover;
    cursor: pointer;
}

/* gradient */
.yt-lite::before {
    content: '';
    display: block;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    background-image: url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAADGCAYAAAAT+OqFAAAAdklEQVQoz42QQQ7AIAgEF/T/D+kbq/RWAlnQyyazA4aoAB4FsBSA/bFjuF1EOL7VbrIrBuusmrt4ZZORfb6ehbWdnRHEIiITaEUKa5EJqUakRSaEYBJSCY2dEstQY7AuxahwXFrvZmWl2rh4JZ07z9dLtesfNj5q0FU3A5ObbwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==);
    background-position: top;
    background-repeat: repeat-x;
    height: 60px;
    padding-bottom: 50px;
    width: 100%;
    transition: all 0.2s cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1);
}

/* responsive iframe with a 16:9 aspect ratio
    thanks https://css-tricks.com/responsive-iframes/
*/
.yt-lite::after {
    content: "";
    display: block;
    padding-bottom: calc(100% / (16 / 9));
}
.yt-lite > iframe {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
}

/* play button */
.yt-lite > .lty-playbtn {
    width: 70px;
    height: 46px;
    background-color: #212121;
    z-index: 1;
    opacity: 0.8;
    border-radius: 14%; /* TODO: Consider replacing this with YT's actual svg. Eh. */
    transition: all 0.2s cubic-bezier(0, 0, 0.2, 1);
}
.yt-lite:hover > .lty-playbtn {
    background-color: #f00;
    opacity: 1;
}
/* play button triangle */
.yt-lite > .lty-playbtn:before {
    content: '';
    border-style: solid;
    border-width: 11px 0 11px 19px;
    border-color: transparent transparent transparent #fff;
}

.yt-lite > .lty-playbtn,
.yt-lite > .lty-playbtn:before {
    position: absolute;
    top: 50%;
    left: 50%;
    transform: translate3d(-50%, -50%, 0);
}

/* Post-click styles */
.yt-lite.lyt-activated {
    cursor: unset;
}
.yt-lite.lyt-activated::before,
.yt-lite.lyt-activated > .lty-playbtn {
    opacity: 0;
    pointer-events: none;
}

For example, for NextJS:

<style jsx global>{`
        html,
        body {
          padding: 0;
          margin: 0;
          font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Segoe UI, Roboto,
            Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, Fira Sans, Droid Sans, Helvetica Neue,
            sans-serif;
        }

        * {
          box-sizing: border-box;

        // CSS above

`}</style>

Option 2

Using your CSS-In-JS tool of choice encapsulate this component and use the css provided as a guide.

Option 3

Not work on every framework but you can import the css directly, check what works best with your bundler / framework.

import 'react-lite-youtube-embed/dist/LiteYouTubeEmbed.css';

or in a *.css/scss etc:

@import "~react-lite-youtube-embed/dist/LiteYouTubeEmbed.css";

All our props belongs to you

The most minimalist implementation requires two props: id from the YouTube you want to render and title, for the iFrame.

| Prop | Type | Description | |----------|:--------:|------------| | id | string | id of the video or playlist | | title | string | Here goes your video title. Always provide a title for iFrames: https://dequeuniversity.com/tips/provide-iframe-titles Help the web be accessible ;) #a11y | | activeClass | string | Pass the string class for the active state | | adNetwork | boolean | Default: false To preconnect or not to doubleclick addresses called by YouTube iframe (the adnetwork from Google) | | announce | string | Default: Watch. This will added to the button announce to the final user as in Clickable Watch, ${title}, button , customize to match your own language #a11y #i18n | | aspectHeight | number | Default: 9. Use this optional prop if you want a custom aspect-ratio. Please be aware of aspect height and width relation and also any custom CSS you are using. | | aspectWidth | number | Default: 16. Use this optional prop if you want a custom aspect-ratio. Please be aware of aspect height and width relation and also any custom CSS you are using. | | cookie | boolean | Default: false Connect to YouTube via the Privacy-Enhanced Mode using https://www.youtube-nocookie.com. You should opt-in to allow cookies| | iframeClass | string | Pass the string class for the own iFrame | | muted | boolean | If the video has sound or not. Required autoplay true to work | | noCookie | boolean | Deprecated Default false use option cookie to opt-in| | onIframeAdded | function | Callback that will fired when iframe loads | | params | string | any params you want to pass to the URL in the iFrame. Two important points to notice: You need to add the params, we already setup for you, so you should write start=1150 and not ?start=1150 or &start=1150. You can place more params but it will need to fully form: start=1150&other=value&another=value. First, when you share a YouTube url the param of time is t, but the embed needs start.| | playerClass | string | Pass the string class for the player, once you can customize it | | playlist | boolean | Use true when your id be from a playlist | | playlistCoverId | string | The ids for playlists did not bring the cover in a pattern to render so you'll need pick up a video from the playlist (or in fact, whatever id) and use to render the cover. There's a programmatic way to get the cover from YouTube API v3 but the aim of this component is do not make any another call and reduce requests and bandwidth usage as much as possible | | poster | string. One of default mqdefault hqdefault sddefault maxresdefault | Defines the image size to call on first render as poster image. See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2068344/how-do-i-get-a-youtube-video-thumbnail-from-the-youtube-api | | rel | string | Default preload. allows for prefetch or preload of the link url | | thumbnail | string | Pass an optional image url to override the default poster and set a custom poster image | | webp | boolean | Default false. When set, uses the WebP format for poster images | | wrapperClass | string | Pass the string class that wraps the iFrame |

🙇‍♂️ Thanks

• Paul Irish (paulirish) for Lite YouTube Embed
• Addy Osmani (addyosmani) for the Adaptive Loading ideas
• All contributors

📝 Read more

• Why I made my open source React component private by default

🈺 TODO

• [ ] Add tests

MIT License

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