react-measure

What is react-measure?

The react-measure package is a React component that allows you to measure the dimensions and position of a DOM element. It provides a declarative way to get the size and position of elements, which can be useful for responsive design, animations, and other dynamic UI behaviors.

What are react-measure's main functionalities?

Measure Dimensions

This feature allows you to measure the width and height of a DOM element. The `Measure` component wraps around the element you want to measure, and the `onResize` callback updates the state with the new dimensions whenever the element is resized.

import React from 'react';
import Measure from 'react-measure';

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  state = {
    dimensions: {
      width: -1,
      height: -1
    }
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <Measure
        bounds
        onResize={(contentRect) => {
          this.setState({ dimensions: contentRect.bounds });
        }}
      >
        {({ measureRef }) => (
          <div ref={measureRef} style={{ width: '100%' }}>
            <p>The width of this element is {this.state.dimensions.width}px</p>
            <p>The height of this element is {this.state.dimensions.height}px</p>
          </div>
        )}
      </Measure>
    );
  }
}

export default MyComponent;

Measure Position

This feature allows you to measure the position (top and left) of a DOM element. The `Measure` component wraps around the element you want to measure, and the `onResize` callback updates the state with the new position whenever the element is resized.

import React from 'react';
import Measure from 'react-measure';

class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  state = {
    position: {
      top: -1,
      left: -1
    }
  };

  render() {
    return (
      <Measure
        bounds
        onResize={(contentRect) => {
          this.setState({ position: contentRect.bounds });
        }}
      >
        {({ measureRef }) => (
          <div ref={measureRef} style={{ position: 'relative' }}>
            <p>The top position of this element is {this.state.position.top}px</p>
            <p>The left position of this element is {this.state.position.left}px</p>
          </div>
        )}
      </Measure>
    );
  }
}

export default MyComponent;

Other packages similar to react-measure

react-resize-detector

react-resize-detector is a lightweight package that provides a higher-order component and a hook to detect resize events on a DOM element. It is similar to react-measure in that it allows you to measure the dimensions of an element, but it does not provide as many detailed measurements (e.g., position).

react-use-measure

react-use-measure is a React hook that allows you to measure the size and position of a DOM element. It is similar to react-measure but uses hooks instead of a component-based API, making it more suitable for modern React applications that prefer hooks.

react-sizeme

react-sizeme is a higher-order component that makes it easy to measure the size of a component. It is similar to react-measure in that it provides dimensions, but it is more focused on providing a simple API for measuring size without additional features like position measurement.

README

React Measure 0.0.8

Compute measurements of React components.

Good to knows

To help avoid layout thrashing, use the prop blacklist to ignore specific values and firing an update to check the DOM for changes.

Example Usage

import Measure from 'react-measure';

<Measure blacklist={['top', 'left']} onChange={this._handleOnChange}>
  {({width, height, top, right, bottom, left}) =>
    <div>
      {/* do cool stuff with my dimensions */}
    </div>
  }
</Measure>