Overlapping Panels

Gestures-driven navigation UI for React.js

This is a Javascript / React implementation of Discord's OverlappingPanels.

Gesture-based navigation allows us to create more natural interactions and avoids conflict with native gesture navigation.

The current implementation relies almost entirely on CSS, inspired by bree's css-drawer-snap. By using CSS scroll snap we rely on the browser to resolve which scrollbar should be scrolled at what time, so you avoid sidebars opening when scrolling vertically through something such as messages or when scrolling sideways through another element.

Install

npm install --save react-overlapping-panels

yarn add react-overlapping-panels

Usage

import React, { Component } from 'react'

import { OverlappingPanels, ShowIf } from 'react-overlapping-panels'
import 'react-overlapping-panels/dist/index.css'

function MyComponent() {
    return (
        <OverlappingPanels
            width={720}
            height={640}
            leftPanel={{
                component: <span>I am the left panel.</span>,
                width: 300
            }}
            rightPanel={{
                component: <span>I am the right panel.</span>,
                width: 250
            }}
            bottomNav={{
                component: <span>hello!</span>,
                height: 40,
                showIf: ShowIf.Left
            }}>
            <h1>main content!</h1>
        </OverlappingPanels>
    )
}

// See example/src/App.tsx for more working examples.

Develop Locally

Clone the project using:

git clone https://gitlab.insrt.uk/insert/overlapping-panels

Build and watch files for the library:

yarn start

And build and watch files for the example:

cd example
yarn start

To-Do

• Add RTL support.

Preview

Example (REVOLT PWA): https://autumn.revolt.chat/attachments/GBokkPYJIJqsaXKndNZPkr2xD5H33t5QVAYKsRCqRc/simplescreenrecorder-2021-06-14_14.42.20.mp4

(The following ones are a bit choppy since I recorded them with Peek instead of SSR)

Example in REVOLT: https://autumn.revolt.chat/attachments/ypmI99sJqyeBEt5LI3dNXSE5WIUPlg1kp4XY7NAbnq/Peek%202021-06-14%2013-32.webm Demo taken from examples: https://autumn.revolt.chat/attachments/soJ5hEJYW2vG2kpxlrE98BI8aZu0NY8FMHeYAfL1kH/Peek%202021-06-14%2014-22.webm