@atlaskit/pragmatic-drag-and-drop-react-beautiful-dnd-migration

Introduction

This package allows rapid migration from react-beautiful-dnd to Pragmatic drag and drop (@atlaskit/pragmatic-drag-and-drop).

This package exposes the same exports and types of react-beautiful-dnd@13 and uses @atlaskit/pragmatic-drag-and-drop to power those exports.

At a high level, all you need to do is swap your imports of react-beautiful-dnd in your code to @atlaskit/pragmatic-drag-and-drop-react-beautiful-dnd-migration and your drag and drop experience(s) will now be powered by Pragmatic drag and drop.

This package also includes a codemod to help automatically shift over react-beautiful-dnd@12 and react-beautiful-dnd@13 to @atlaskit/pragmatic-drag-and-drop-react-beautiful-dnd-migration.

Prerequisites

• You are already using react-beautiful-dnd. If this is a new feature, adopt @atlaskit/pragmatic-drag-and-drop directly.
• You are using major version 12 or 13 of react-beautiful-dnd.

Migration steps

1. Install @atlaskit/pragmatic-drag-and-drop-react-beautiful-dnd-migration

2. Run the codemod client with the command npx @atlaskit/codemod-cli --parser {tsx|babylon} --extensions ts,tsx,js [relativePath].

   Select the codemod based on which version of react-beautiful-dnd you are using:

   1. For major version 12, select adoption-from-rbd-12

   2. For major version 13, select adoption-from-rbd-13

3. Acknowledge and remove the comments left by the codemod.

Limitations

There are some known limitations in the migration layer.

UX differences

The user experience (UX) provided by this migration layer differs slightly to that of react-beautiful-dnd.

Sensors

• Custom sensors are no longer supported.
  • The migration layer supports pointer and keyboard dragging.
• Default sensors cannot be disabled.

If either of these changes is a blocker for you, please reach out to discuss options.

Combining

Combining items is not supported by this migration layer. The main use case is for trees, which other packages are better suited for.

If you are looking for a tree package, please reach out to us and we can help you with next steps.

Unsupported props

A number of props are no longer supported. They will be accepted but won't have any effect.

<DragDropContext>

# A nonce is no longer needed.
# All styles are now controlled by React.
- nonce?: string;

# Custom sensors are not supported.
# The migration layer supports pointer and keyboard dragging.
- sensors?: Sensors[];

# Disabling default sensors is not supported.
- enableDefaultSensors?: boolean;

<Droppable>

# Combining items is not supported.
- isCombineEnabled?: boolean;

# The browser now determines all hit targets.
- ignoreContainerClipping?: boolean;

<Draggable>

# The browser now determines when drags should occur.
- shouldRespectForcePress?: boolean;

Troubleshooting

If you run into any issues while migrating, please reach out to us for assistance.