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Web apps tend to be made up of several different UI pieces that could potentially claim the user's attention, such as confirmation prompts, dialogs, alerts, or similar.
Oftentimes, apps choose to let people interact with multiple of such components in different places in the UI, which means that multiple "flows" of interaction can be started at the same time.
To avoid confusion resulting from that and to ensure there's always only one UI component claiming attention, you can add this tiny package.
First, install the package:
npm install react-attention --save
Next, add a context provider at the root of your app:
import { AttentionProvider } from 'react-attention';
const Layout = ({ children }) => (
<AttentionProvider>{children}</AttentionProvider>
);
export default Layout;
Lastly, make use of the hook inside your components:
import { useAttention } from 'react-attention';
const Overlay = ({ children }) => {
const [visible, setVisible] = useState(true);
useAttention(visible, () => setVisible(false));
return <div className={visible ? undefined : 'hidden'} />
};
If you would like the current component to be reset when the user clicks outside of it, react-attention
can handle that automatically for you.
Just pass a third argument containing a reference to the element:
const element = useRef(null);
useAttention(visible, () => setVisible(false), element);
Created by Leo Lamprecht (@leo)
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Claim attention in React components
The npm package react-attention receives a total of 40 weekly downloads. As such, react-attention popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that react-attention demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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