useElementResize

This package provides two abstractions to detect element resize events. It depends on React-Hooks!

The first abstraction uses javascript-detect-element-resize, and it can be invoked as useDetectElementResize.

The second abstraction is a very simple implementation of mutability observers. We create an observer and connect it to the desired element.

Both of these, can take an onResize callback, which is of course, called every time a resize event happens. They also take onExit, which is called when the component unmounts.

Both of the abstractions return width and height when invoked, and consume their callbacks with width and height. When using onExit on useMutabilityObserver, the left over records are passed to the callback.

These abstractions detect element resize! Not the same as attaching a listener to the resize event.

These abstractions can be used to replace the AutoSizer provided by react-virtualized, which implements javascript-detect-element-resize, through a React Class Component. Instead you can use these hooks and pass width and height down to, for example, the MultiGrid component.

To use, just pass the id of the element you wish to observe!

Demo

In the example provided, one can toggle the resize listeners off, this is delayed 2 seconds. During this time, you can spam resize events, and see that the component is unmounted cleanly without any callbacks, or attempts to set React state left.

As with any hook, you simply invoke it at the top of your function component and now you have access to variable widht, height, obsWidth, obsHeight.

This demo allows you to add divs with 1 as text content. These add as a flex-column and will stretch the root div, far beyond the height of the window. You can play around with +1 and -1 to see how the hooks respond to height changes.

import React from "react";
import {
  useMutabilityObserver,
  useDetectElementResize
} from "use-element-resize";

function ElementResize() {
  const target = { id: "root" };
  const [width, height] = useDetectElementResize(target);
  const [obsWidth, obsHeight] = useMutabilityObserver(target);

  return (
    <div className="resize-results">
      <span>Root div dimensions:</span>
      <div>
        <code>useDetectElementResize</code>
        <div>
          <span className="text-muted">
            Width: <span className="text-success">{width}</span> px
          </span>
          {" - "}
          <span className="text-muted">
            Height: <span className="text-danger">{height}</span> px
          </span>
        </div>
      </div>
      <div>
        <code>useMutabilityObserver</code>
        <div>
          <span className="text-muted">
            obsWidth: <span className="text-success">{obsWidth}</span> px
          </span>
          {" - "}
          <span className="text-muted">
            obsHeight: <span className="text-danger">{obsHeight}</span> px
          </span>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
}

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2019 Joseph Chamochumbi

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