react-wifi-indicator
v1.0.1
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An easy-to-use wrapper that provides 6 different WiFi icons and a utility to convert raw dBm to signal strength categories.
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react-wifi-indicator
An easy-to-use wrapper that provides 6 different WiFi icons and a utility to convert raw dBm
to signal strength categories.
Quick Start
First, install the module:
npm install react-wifi-indicator --save
Demos
Using the strength
prop to set the icon.
import WifiIndicator from 'react-wifi-indicator';
// ...
<WifiIndicator strength='EXCELLENT' />
<WifiIndicator strength='GREAT' />
<WifiIndicator strength='OKAY' />
<WifiIndicator strength='WEAK' />
<WifiIndicator strength='UNUSABLE' />
<WifiIndicator strength='DISCONNECTED' />
Use the Enum
Ideally, you should use the provided enum instead of “magic prop strings.”
import WifiIndicator, { SignalStrength } from 'react-wifi-indicator';
// ...
<WifiIndicator strength={SignalStrength.EXCELLENT} />
<WifiIndicator strength={SignalStrength.GREAT} />
<WifiIndicator strength={SignalStrength.OKAY} />
<WifiIndicator strength={SignalStrength.WEAK} />
<WifiIndicator strength={SignalStrength.UNUSABLE} />
<WifiIndicator strength={SignalStrength.DISCONNECTED} />
dBm?
If you have dBm (decibel-milliwatts) you’ll need a way to calculate the signal strength. You can use the utility DBMToSignalStrength
for that.
Import Setup
import WifiIndicator, { DBMToSignalStrength } from 'react-wifi-indicator';
Demos
<WifiIndicator strength={DBMToSignalStrength(-42)} />
<WifiIndicator strength={DBMToSignalStrength(-51)} />
<WifiIndicator strength={DBMToSignalStrength(-62)} />
<WifiIndicator strength={DBMToSignalStrength(-76)} />
<WifiIndicator strength={DBMToSignalStrength(-89)} />
<WifiIndicator strength={DBMToSignalStrength(-100)} />
Your Own Utility?
You can always write your own utility if you don’t like the heuristics of DBMToSignalStrength
. Just remember that:
-30 dBm
is the maximum achievable signal strength.-42 dBm
is an amazing, but realistic signal strength.-90 dBm
is unusable and approaching or drowning in the noise floor.
Styling and Accessibility
The icon is pretty much an image
with an svg
as the source. You can pass down alt
attributes, styles
, classNames
, etc.
Accessibility
You can pass an alt
tag in order to add semantic meaning to the icons. But if you don’t provide one, the library will default it to an empty string. (Marking it as presentational.)
Custom Styles
<WifiIndicator
strength={SignalStrength.EXCELLENT}
alt='Excellent Wifi'
style={{
height: 100,
border: '2px solid cornflowerblue',
borderRadius: 4,
padding: 12,
}}
/>
Custom Icons
Using custom icons might defeat the purpose of the library. But you can totally do it! Provide a prop called statusImages
that looks like this:
<WifiIndicator
statusImages={{
EXCELLENT: 'some path, data:img, etc.',
GREAT: 'some path, data:img, etc.',
OKAY: 'some path, data:img, etc.',
WEAK: 'some path, data:img, etc.',
UNUSABLE: 'some path, data:img, etc.',
DISCONNECTED: 'some path, data:img, etc.',
}}
/>
Credits
- Created by Filip Danić
- Default icons were created by Dragana Krtinić
- Project bootstraped with create-react-library
License
MIT © filipdanic