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react-easy-swipe
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Add swipe interactions to your react component.
http://leandrowd.github.io/react-easy-swipe/
To prevent scroll during swipe, return true from the handler passed to onSwipeMove
To allow mouse events to behave like touch, pass a prop allowMouseEvents
To prevent accidental swipes on scroll, pass a prop tolerance with the tolerance pixel as number.
npm install react-easy-swipe --save
import React, {Component} from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import Swipe from 'react-easy-swipe';
class MyComponent extends Component {
onSwipeStart(event) {
console.log('Start swiping...', event);
}
onSwipeMove(position, event) {
console.log(`Moved ${position.x} pixels horizontally`, event);
console.log(`Moved ${position.y} pixels vertically`, event);
}
onSwipeEnd(event) {
console.log('End swiping...', event);
}
render() {
const boxStyle = {
width: '100%',
height: '300px',
border: '1px solid black',
background: '#ccc',
padding: '20px',
fontSize: '3em'
};
return (
<Swipe
onSwipeStart={this.onSwipeStart}
onSwipeMove={this.onSwipeMove}
onSwipeEnd={this.onSwipeEnd}>
<div style={boxStyle}>Open the console and swipe me</div>
</Swipe>
);
}
}
ReactDOM.render(<MyComponent/>, document.getElementById('root'));
{
tagName: PropTypes.string,
className: PropTypes.string,
style: PropTypes.object,
children: PropTypes.node,
allowMouseEvents: PropTypes.bool,
onSwipeUp: PropTypes.func,
onSwipeDown: PropTypes.func,
onSwipeLeft: PropTypes.func,
onSwipeRight: PropTypes.func,
onSwipeStart: PropTypes.func,
onSwipeMove: PropTypes.func,
onSwipeEnd: PropTypes.func,
tolerance: PropTypes.number.isRequired
}
Please, feel free to contribute. You may open a bug, request a feature, submit a pull request or whatever you want!
react-swipeable is a React component that provides similar swipe detection capabilities. It offers more customization options and supports additional swipe events like swipe up and swipe down. Compared to react-easy-swipe, react-swipeable has a more extensive API and better documentation.
react-swipe is another alternative for handling swipe events in React. It is specifically designed for creating touch-enabled carousels and sliders. While it is more focused on carousel functionality, it can still be used for general swipe detection. It is slightly heavier than react-easy-swipe but offers more built-in features for carousel implementations.
FAQs
React easy swipe - Easy handler for common touch operations
The npm package react-easy-swipe receives a total of 208,679 weekly downloads. As such, react-easy-swipe popularity was classified as popular.
We found that react-easy-swipe demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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