React Spectrum

A tiny(around 1.3kb gzip) React library to generate colorful text placeholders 🎨

Inspired by this code illustration on CodeSandbox homepage 🙏

Try out the generator at react-spectrum.netlify.com 🎊 Also, check out @BotSpectrum twitter bot that tweets randomly generated colorful text placeholders for inspiration 🎊

Demo

• Basic
• Advanced
• Animating using CSS

Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Props
• Contribute
• License

Install

NPM

npm install react-spectrum

Yarn

yarn add react-spectrum

UMD build

<script src="https://unpkg.com/react-spectrum/dist/react-spectrum.umd.js"></script>

Usage

import React from "react";
// Import library
import Spectrum from "react-spectrum";
// or const Spectrum = require('react-spectrum');

// Render the placeholder
function Placeholder() {
  return (
    <Spectrum
      width={500}
      colors={["#757575", "#999999", "#0871F2", "#BF5AF2"]}
    />
  );
}

Props

| Property | Type | Default | Description | | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ----------- | | width | number | 500 | Width of the placeholder container | | colors | Array<string> | ['#eee'] | Possible colors of words, will be picked randomly | | wordWidths | Array<number> | [30, 60, 90, 120, 150] | Possible widths of words, will be picked randomly | | wordDistances | Array<number> | [4, 8, 12] | Possible distance between words, will be picked randomly | | wordHeight | number | 12 | Height of every word placeholder | | wordRadius | number | 20 | Border radius of every word | | lineDistance | number | 12 | Distance(margin) between the lines | | linesPerParagraph | number | 8 | Lines per paragraph. if there are multiple paragraphs, all of them will have same number of lines | | paragraphs | number | 1 | Number of paragraphs in the placeholder | | paragraphDistance | number | 24 | Distance(margin) between the paragraphs | | truncateLastLine | boolean | true | Show less words in the last line for more natural feel | | renderWord | function | ({ key, style}) => <span key={key} style={style} /> | Render word with customizations(avoid overriding passed style properties. it might break the functionality) |

Contribute

Thanks for taking the time to contribute, please check out the src to understand how things work.

Reporting Issues

Found a problem? Want a new feature? First of all, see if your issue or idea has already been reported. If don't, just open a new clear and descriptive issue.

Submitting pull requests

Pull requests are the greatest contributions, so be sure they are focused in scope and do avoid unrelated commits.

• Fork it!
• Clone your fork: git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/react-spectrum
• Navigate to the newly cloned directory: cd react-spectrum
• Create a new branch for the new feature: git checkout -b my-new-feature
• Install the tools necessary for development: yarn
• Make your changes.
• Commit your changes: git commit -am 'Add some feature'
• Push to the branch: git push origin my-new-feature
• Submit a pull request with full remarks documenting your changes

License

MIT License © Ganapati V S