React Awesome Reveal
React Awesome Reveal is a library for React apps written in TypeScript that adds reveal animations using the Intersection Observer API to detect when the elements appear in the viewport. Animations are internally provided by Emotion and implemented as CSS Animations to benefit from hardware acceleration.
Table Of Contents
Features
- 🎁 Modern stack – It is built for modern React
- 🏷 TypeScript support – It is written in TypeScript to improve the DX
- 🍃 Lightweight – Very little footprint on your project and no other dependencies required
- ⚙️ Uses native APIs – Intersection Observer and CSS Animations are now supported by all major browsers
- 🚀 Fast – Buttery smooth experience thanks to the use of native asynchronous APIs and hardware acceleration
- 💻 SSR support – Server Side Rendering works out-of-the-box
- 🌳 Tree-shakeable – Only the parts you use will be included in your final bundle
Demo
You can find a demo website here.
Installation
To add this package as a dependency to your app, simply run
npm install react-awesome-reveal --save
or, if you are using Yarn (as I strongly suggest):
yarn add react-awesome-reveal
Quick Start
Import effects from React Awesome Reveal to your React component, for example the Fade
effect:
import { Fade } from "react-awesome-reveal";
Then simply wrap the components you want to animate:
<Fade>
<p>I will gently appear as I enter the viewport</p>
</Fade>
Supported Effects
The effects currently supported are Bounce
, Fade
, Flip
, Hinge
, JackInTheBox
, Roll
, Rotate
, Slide
and Zoom
. Refer to the Animate.css documentation for the details.
Attention Seekers
Since version 3, attention seeker animations are wrapped by the AttentionSeeker
component, which accepts a prop called effect
that specifies the animation to render (defaults to "bounce”
). The supported effects are: ”bounce"
, "flash"
, "headShake”
, "heartBeat"
, "jello”
, "pulse"
, "rubberBand"
, “shake”
, “shakeX"
, "shakeY”
, "swing”
, "tada"
and “wobble”
.
Again, refer to the Animate.css documentation for the details.
Props
You can pass the following props to the animation components to customize the behavior:
Prop | Description | Values | Default |
---|
cascade | If set, each child of a reveal animation automatically get assigned a delay that takes into account their predecessor (child i enters the viewport after i * delay * damping milliseconds) – useful for animating list items. | true or false | false |
damping | Factor that affects the delay that each animated component in a cascade animation will be assigned. If damping = 1 then the delay will be equal to the animation duration; if damping < 1 then the delay will be lower than the animation duration; if damping > 1 then the delay will be greater than the animation duration. | number | 0.5 (meaning that the delay will be half of the animation duration) |
direction | Origin of the animation (where applicable). | Usually "down" , "left" , "right" or "up" , with some exceptions documented in the code | undefined |
delay | Time to wait before the animation starts (in milliseconds). | number | 0 |
duration | The animation duration (milliseconds). | number | 1000 |
fraction | How much an element should be in viewport before the animation is triggered. | number between 0 and 1 | 0 |
triggerOnce | Specifies if the animation should run only once or everytime an element enters/exits/re-enters the viewport. | true or false | false |
className | The class names to add to the container element. | string | undefined |
style | The inline styles to add to the container element. | React.CSSProperties | undefined |
childCassName | The class names to add to the child element. | string | undefined |
childStyle | The inline styles to add to the child element. | React.CSSProperties | undefined |
Example
To trigger the animation only the first time an element enters the viewport:
<Slide triggerOnce>
<p>I will animate only the first time you see me</p>
</Slide>
Chaining Multiple Animations
To chain together multiple animations, set the cascade
prop to true
:
<Fade cascade>
<p>I enter first...</p>
<p>...then comes my turn...</p>
<p>...and finally you see me!</p>
</Fade>
This is almost equivalent to
<Fade>
<p>I enter first...</p>
</Fade>
<Fade delay={1000}>
<p>...then comes my turn...</p>
</Fade>
<Fade delay={2000}>
<p>...and finally you see me!</p>
</Fade>
with the exception that, since each Fade
component creates an isolated visibility context, in the second snippet every p
will be shown only if they are inside the viewport (after the specified delay).
Past Releases
To see the documentation for previous versions, navigate through past tags in the GitHub's project repository and read the README for that specific version.
License
Project source code is licensed under the MIT license. You are free to fork this repository, edit the code, share and use it both for non-commercial and commercial purposes.