react-photo-gallery

React Photo Gallery

• Responsive, accessible, composable, and customizable image gallery component
• Maintains the original aspect ratio of your photos
• Creates a 'masonry' style layout
• Uses actual image elements, optionally pass in srcSet and sizes attributes
• Supports row or column direction layout
• Supports passing in a custom image component for implementation of things like image selection, favorites, captions, or whatever your little heart desires!
• SSR app compatible

Preview

Installation

To install:

yarn add react-photo-gallery

Documentation and Examples

http://neptunian.github.io/react-photo-gallery/

Direct CodeSandbox Links with Examples and Use Cases

• Basic Row Layout
• Basic Column Layout
• With Lightbox
• Dynamic Columns
• Selection using custom ImageComponent
• Sortable with drag and drop

To build some examples locally, run:

yarn install
yarn start

Then open localhost:8000 in a browser.

Use

import Gallery from 'react-photo-gallery';

export default class Sample extends React.Component {
    render() {
	return (
	    <Gallery photos={PHOTO_SET} />
	);
    }
}
const PHOTO_SET = [
  {
    src: 'http://example.com/example/img1.jpg',
    width: 4,
    height: 3
  },
  {
    src: 'http://example.com/example/img2.jpg',
    width: 1,
    height: 1
  }
];

Gallery properties

Property	Type	Default	Description
photos	array	undefined	required; array of objects
columns	number	3	optional; number of photos per row
onClick	function	undefined	optional; do something when the user clicks a photo; receives arguments event and an object containing the index, photo obj originally sent and the next and previous photos in the gallery if they exist
margin	number	2	optional; number of margin pixels around each entire image
direction	string	'row'	optional; column or row based layout
ImageComponent	function	default component	optional; use a different image component than the default provided to display your photo

Photos array item properties (passed into Gallery's photos property)

Property	Type	Default	Description
src	string	undefined	required; the img src attribute value of the image
srcSet	array or string	undefined	optional; srcSet attribute of the image
sizes	array or string	undefined	optional; sizes attribute of the image
width	number	undefined	required; original width of the gallery image (only used for calculating aspect ratio)
height	number	undefined	required; original height of the gallery image (only used for calculating aspect ratio)
alt	string	undefined	optional; alt text of the gallery image
key	string	src	optional; key to be used on component

ImageComponent props

If you're passing a function component to ImageComponent you will receive back these props:

Property	Type	Value
margin	string	optional; margin prop optionally passed into Gallery by user
index	number	required; the index of the photo within the Gallery
photo	object	required; the individual object passed into Gallery's photos array prop, with all the same props except recalculated height and width
direction	string	optional; direction passed into Gallery
top	number	required if direction is 'column'; top position of this image, only passed if direction prop was 'column'
left	number	required if direction is 'column'; left position of this image, only passed if direction prop was 'column'
onClick	function	optional; the onClick function optionally passsed into Gallery by user