react-cool-onclickoutside

React Cool Onclickoutside

This is a React hook to trigger callback when user clicks outside of the target component(s) area. It's a useful logic for UI interaction design (IxD) like dismiss a dropdown menu, modal or tooltip etc. You can check the features section to learn more.

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Features

• 🎣 Listen for clicks outside based on React hook.
• 👯‍♀️ Support multiple refs to cover more use cases.
• 🧻 Uses passive event listeners to improve scrolling performance.
• ⛔ Scrollbar can be excluded from the callback of outside clicks.
• 👂🏻 Enable you to stop listening for outside clicks when needed.
• 📜 Support TypeScript type definition.
• 🗄️ Server-side rendering friendly.
• 🦠 Tiny size (< 1KB gzipped). No external dependencies, aside for the react.

Requirement

To use react-cool-onclickoutside, you must use react@16.8.0 or greater which includes hooks.

Installation

This package is distributed via npm.

$ yarn add react-cool-onclickoutside
# or
$ npm install --save react-cool-onclickoutside

Usage

Common use case.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import useOnclickOutside from 'react-cool-onclickoutside';

const Dropdown = () => {
  const [openMenu, setOpenMenu] = useState(false);
  const registerRef = useOnclickOutside(() => {
    setOpenMenu(false);
  });

  const handleClickBtn = () => {
    setOpenMenu(!openMenu);
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={handleClickBtn}>Button</button>
      {openMenu && <div ref={registerRef}>Menu</div>}
    </div>
  );
};

Support multiple refs. Callback only be triggered when user clicks outside of the registered components.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import useOnclickOutside from 'react-cool-onclickoutside';

const App = () => {
  const [showTips, setShowTips] = useState(true);
  const registerRef = useOnclickOutside(() => {
    setShowTips(false);
  });

  return (
    <div>
      {showTips && (
        <>
          <div ref={registerRef}>Tooltip 1</div>
          <div ref={registerRef}>Tooltip 2</div>
        </>
      )}
    </div>
  );
};

Disabling the Event Listener

In case you want to disable the event listener for performance reasons or fulfill some use cases. We provide the disabled option for you. Once you set it as true, the callback won’t be triggered.

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import useOnclickOutside from 'react-cool-onclickoutside';

const App = () => {
  const [disabled, setDisabled] = useState(false);
  const registerRef = useOnclickOutside(
    () => {
      // Do something...
    },
    { disabled }
  );

  const handleBtnClick = () => {
    setDisabled(true);
  };

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={handleBtnClick}>
        Stop listening for outside clicks
      </button>
      <div ref={registerRef}>I'm a 📦</div>
    </div>
  );
};

API

const registerRef = useOnclickOutside(callback[, options]);

Parameters

You must pass the callback to use this hook and you can access the MouseEvent or TouchEvent via the event parameter as below.

const callback = event => {
  console.log('Event: ', event);
};

The options object may contain the following keys.

Key	Type	Default	Description
disabled	boolean	false	Enable/disable the event listener.
eventTypes	Array	['mousedown', 'touchstart']	Which events to listen for.
excludeScrollbar	boolean	false	Whether or not to listen (ignore) to browser scrollbar clicks.

Return

A function to register the component(s) that useOnclickOutside hook should target to.

Inspiration

• react-onclickoutside

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

Welly 💻 📖 🚧

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!