@dotlottie/react-player

DotLottiePlayer React Component

This is a React Component for easily embedding and playing dotLottie animations in your react projects.

What is dotLottie?

dotLottie is an open-source file format that combines one or more Lottie files and their associated resources into a single file. These files are ZIP archives compressed with the Deflate compression method and have the file extension ".lottie".

Read more about dotLottie here!

Installation

You can install @dotlottie/react-player using npm:

npm install @dotlottie/react-player

or yarn:

yarn add @dotlottie/react-player

Usage

To use @dotlottie/react-player in your React project, import the component and use it as follows:

import React from 'react';
import { DotLottiePlayer, Controls } from '@dotlottie/react-player';
import '@dotlottie/react-player/dist/index.css';

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <DotLottiePlayer
        src="/path-to-lottie.lottie"
        autoplay
        loop
      >
        <Controls />
      </DotLottiePlayer>
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

Props

The DotLottiePlayer component accepts the following props:

Prop	Description	Type	Default
src (required)	Animation data or URL	Record<string, unknown> | string	undefined
lottieRef	Get player object	MutableRefObject	undefined
autoplay	Autoplay animation on load	boolean	false
background	Background color	string	transparent
direction	Play direction	1 | -1	1
hover	Whether to play on mouse hover	boolean	false
intermission	Pause between loops	number	0
loop	Whether to loop animation	boolean	false
playMode	Play mode	'normal' | 'bounce'	normal
renderer	How to render	'svg' | 'html' | 'canvas'	svg
speed	Play speed	number	1
onEvent	Listen to player events	function	undefined

Events

The following events are exposed via the onEvent function:

Name	Description
complete	Animation completed playing
error	An animation source cannot be parsed, fails to load, or has format errors
frame	A new frame is entered
freeze	Animation is frozen
loopComplete	Loop animation is complete
pause	Animation is paused
ready	Animation data is loaded and player is ready
stop	Animation is stopped

Examples

Listening for events:

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { DotLottiePlayer, Controls, PlayerEvents } from '@dotlottie/react-player';
import '@dotlottie/react-player/dist/index.css';

const App = () => {
  const [loading, setLoading] = useState(true);

  return (
    <div>
      {loading ? (
        <div>loading....</div>
      ) : (
        <DotLottiePlayer
          src="/path-to-lottie.lottie"
          onEvent={(event: PlayerEvents) => {
            if (event === PlayerEvents.Ready) {
              setLoading(false);
            }
          }}
          autoplay
          loop
        >
          <Controls />
        </DotLottiePlayer>
      )}
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

Getting player instance and calling methods:

import React, { useRef } from 'react';
import { DotLottiePlayer, Controls, PlayerEvents } from '@dotlottie/react-player';
import '@dotlottie/react-player/dist/index.css';

const App = () => {
  const lottieRef = useRef<DotLottieRefProps>();

  return (
    <div>
      <DotLottiePlayer
        lottieRef={lottieRef}
        src="/path-to-lottie.lottie"
        onEvent={(event: PlayerEvents) => {
          if (event === PlayerEvents.Ready) {
            // Play next animation.
            lottieRef.current?.next();
          }
        }}
        autoplay
        loop
      >
        <Controls />
      </DotLottiePlayer>
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

Methods

You can access these methods using the player instance:

• getLottie: () => AnimationItem | undefined: Returns the lottie-web instance.
• getManifest: () => Manifest | undefined: Returns the .lottie Manifest.
• next: (options?: PlaybackOptions) => void: Plays the next animation in the manifest.
• play: (indexOrId?: string | number, options?: PlaybackOptions) => void: Plays the current animation.
• previous: (options?: PlaybackOptions) => void: Plays the previous animation in the manifest.
• reset: () => void: Goes back to the default/initial animation.

Contributing

We use changesets to maintain a changelog for this repository. When making any changes to the codebase that impact functionality or performance, we require a changeset to be present.

To add a changeset, run:

pnpm changeset add

And select the type of version bump you'd like (major, minor, patch).

You can document the changes in detail and format them properly using Markdown by opening the ".md" file that the "yarn changeset" command created in the ".changeset" folder. Open the file, and it should look something like this:

---
"@dotlottie/common": minor
"@dotlottie/react-player": major
---

This is where you document your **changes** using Markdown.

- You can write
- However you'd like
- In as much detail as you'd like

Aim to provide enough details so that teammates and future you can understand the changes and the context of

 the change.

Commit your changes and the changeset to your branch, and then create a pull request on the develop branch.

Our Other Lottie-related Libraries

Here are some of our other Lottie-related libraries:

• lottie-react: A React component for the Lottie Web player.
• lottie-vue: A Vue component for the Lottie player.
• svelte-lottie-player: Lottie player component for use with Svelte.
• jLottie: jLottie is suitable as a general-purpose Lottie player, though it implements a subset of the features in the core player. This approach leads to a tiny footprint and great performance.
• lottie-interactivity: This is a small library to add scrolling, cursor interactivity, and interaction chaining to your Lottie animations.
• lottie-js: The library consists of methods to map the Lottie JSON to the object model and interact with properties, as well as manipulate them.

License

MIT License © LottieFiles.com