Acknowledgement

Huge thanks to @chpio for fixing bugs & improve the code.

Why

I needed to detect browser's width on resize when developing a fairly animation-heavy website with Gatsby.js. However I realized that I only need to know which 'zone' (area between breakpoints) the browser is in & it made more sense to use window.matchMedia instead (Plus it's more fun to try out a 'new' API).

This is actually not really a hook, no, it was a hook until I realized each hook usage in a component added new event listeners to the dom. Granted, it probably doesn't matter, but I prefer to attach only the events that I needed, as often as I needed to.

How

Install

yarn add use-zone-breakpoints

Wrap the root of your app with <ZoneManager /> from use-zone-breakpoints. It accepts a single props: An array of breakpoints in pixels.

  <ZoneManager breakpoints={[ 576, 767, 991, 1199 ]}>
    <App />
  </ZoneManager>

It'll create zones in between these breakpoints. For example, these are the zone created with the breakpoints above:

breakpoints | 0 -> 576 | 576 -> 767 | 767 -> 991 | 991 -> 1199 | 1199 -> ∞
--: |:-: |:-: |:-: |:-: |:-: zone | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Example

Codesandbox

Minimal one pager:

import React from 'react'
import { render } from 'react-dom'
import { useZone, ZoneManager } from 'use-zone-breakpoints'

const ZoneDisplay = () => {
  const zone = useZone()
  return (<h1>{zone}</h1>)
}

const App = () => (
  <ZoneManager breakpoints={[ 360, 480, 640, 960, 1280 ]}>
    <h1>Zone</h1>
    <ZoneDisplay />
  </ZoneManager>
)

const $root = document.getElementById('root')
render(<App />, $root)

Use with Gatsby

Import <ZoneManager> & wrap root element in gatsby-browser.js & gatsby-ssr.js:

export const wrapRootElement = ({ element }) => (
  <ZoneManager breakpoints={[ 360, 960 ]}>{ element }</ZoneManager>
)

Then import useZone to get zone in any functional components.

Use with js-in-css

I keep an array of breakpoints as a constant:

const BREAKPOINTS = [360, 640, 960]

This breakpoints can be shared with a styled library, like this example with emotion