react-swipeable

What is react-swipeable?

The react-swipeable package is a React component that provides easy-to-use swipe event handlers for touch devices. It allows developers to add swipe functionality to their React components, making it ideal for creating touch-friendly user interfaces.

What are react-swipeable's main functionalities?

Basic Swipe Detection

This code demonstrates how to use the react-swipeable package to detect basic swipe events. The `useSwipeable` hook is used to create swipe handlers, which are then applied to a div element. When a swipe is detected, a message is logged to the console.

import React from 'react';
import { useSwipeable } from 'react-swipeable';

const SwipeComponent = () => {
  const handlers = useSwipeable({
    onSwiped: (eventData) => console.log('User Swiped!', eventData)
  });

  return (
    <div {...handlers} style={{ width: '100%', height: '100px', background: 'lightgray' }}>
      Swipe here
    </div>
  );
};

export default SwipeComponent;

Swipe Direction Detection

This code demonstrates how to detect the direction of a swipe using the react-swipeable package. The `useSwipeable` hook is configured with handlers for each swipe direction (left, right, up, down), and logs a message to the console when a swipe in that direction is detected.

import React from 'react';
import { useSwipeable } from 'react-swipeable';

const SwipeDirectionComponent = () => {
  const handlers = useSwipeable({
    onSwipedLeft: () => console.log('Swiped Left!'),
    onSwipedRight: () => console.log('Swiped Right!'),
    onSwipedUp: () => console.log('Swiped Up!'),
    onSwipedDown: () => console.log('Swiped Down!')
  });

  return (
    <div {...handlers} style={{ width: '100%', height: '100px', background: 'lightblue' }}>
      Swipe in any direction
    </div>
  );
};

export default SwipeDirectionComponent;

Swipe Threshold Configuration

This code demonstrates how to configure a swipe threshold using the react-swipeable package. The `useSwipeable` hook is configured with a `delta` value, which sets the minimum distance (in pixels) that a swipe must cover to be detected.

import React from 'react';
import { useSwipeable } from 'react-swipeable';

const SwipeThresholdComponent = () => {
  const handlers = useSwipeable({
    onSwiped: (eventData) => console.log('User Swiped!', eventData),
    delta: 50 // Minimum distance (in pixels) for a swipe to be detected
  });

  return (
    <div {...handlers} style={{ width: '100%', height: '100px', background: 'lightgreen' }}>
      Swipe with a minimum threshold
    </div>
  );
};

export default SwipeThresholdComponent;

Other packages similar to react-swipeable

react-swipe

The react-swipe package provides a React component for touch slide navigation. It is similar to react-swipeable in that it allows for swipe detection, but it is more focused on creating swipeable carousels and sliders. It offers a higher-level abstraction compared to react-swipeable.

react-use-gesture

The react-use-gesture package is a set of hooks for handling gestures in React. It supports a wide range of gestures, including swipes, pinches, and scrolls. Compared to react-swipeable, react-use-gesture offers more comprehensive gesture support and can be used for more complex interactions.

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README

React Swipeable

React swipe event handler hook

Github Pages Demo

Api

Use the hook and set your swipe(d) handlers.

const handlers = useSwipeable({
  onSwiped: (eventData) => console.log("User Swiped!", eventData),
  ...config,
});
return <div {...handlers}> You can swipe here </div>;

Spread handlers onto the element you wish to track swipes on.

Props / Config Options

Event handler props

{
  onSwiped,       // After any swipe   (SwipeEventData) => void
  onSwipedLeft,   // After LEFT swipe  (SwipeEventData) => void
  onSwipedRight,  // After RIGHT swipe (SwipeEventData) => void
  onSwipedUp,     // After UP swipe    (SwipeEventData) => void
  onSwipedDown,   // After DOWN swipe  (SwipeEventData) => void
  onSwipeStart,   // Start of swipe    (SwipeEventData) => void *see details*
  onSwiping,      // During swiping    (SwipeEventData) => void
  onTap,          // After a tap       ({ event }) => void

  // Pass through callbacks, event provided: ({ event }) => void
  onTouchStartOrOnMouseDown, // Called for `touchstart` and `mousedown`
  onTouchEndOrOnMouseUp,     // Called for `touchend` and `mouseup`
}

Details

• onSwipeStart - called only once per swipe at the start and before the first onSwiping callback
  • The first property of the SwipeEventData will be true

Configuration props and default values

{
  delta: 10,                             // min distance(px) before a swipe starts. *See Notes*
  preventScrollOnSwipe: false,           // prevents scroll during swipe (*See Details*)
  trackTouch: true,                      // track touch input
  trackMouse: false,                     // track mouse input
  rotationAngle: 0,                      // set a rotation angle
  swipeDuration: Infinity,               // allowable duration of a swipe (ms). *See Notes*
  touchEventOptions: { passive: true },  // options for touch listeners (*See Details*)
}

delta

delta can be either a number or an object specifying different deltas for each direction, [left, right, up, down], direction values are optional and will default to 10;

{
  delta: { up: 20, down: 20 } // up and down ">= 20", left and right default to ">= 10"
}

swipeDuration

A swipe lasting more than swipeDuration, in milliseconds, will not be considered a swipe.

• It will also not trigger any callbacks and the swipe event will stop being tracked
• Defaults to Infinity for backwards compatibility, a sensible duration could be something like 250
  • Feature mimicked from use-gesture swipe.duration

{
  swipeDuration: 250 // only swipes under 250ms will trigger callbacks
}

touchEventOptions

Allows the user to set the options for the touch event listeners( currently only passive option ).

• touchstart, touchmove, and touchend event listeners
• Defaults to { passive: true }
• this provides users full control of if/when they want to set passive
  • https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/EventTarget/addEventListener#options
• preventScrollOnSwipe option supersedes touchEventOptions.passive for touchmove event listener
  • See preventScrollOnSwipe for more details

Swipe Event Data

All Event Handlers are called with the below event data, SwipeEventData.

{
  event,          // source event
  initial,        // initial swipe [x,y]
  first,          // true for the first event of a tracked swipe
  deltaX,         // x offset (current.x - initial.x)
  deltaY,         // y offset (current.y - initial.y)
  absX,           // absolute deltaX
  absY,           // absolute deltaY
  velocity,       // √(absX^2 + absY^2) / time - "absolute velocity" (speed)
  vxvy,           // [ deltaX/time, deltaY/time] - velocity per axis
  dir,            // direction of swipe (Left|Right|Up|Down)
}

None of the props/config options are required.

Hook details

• Hook use requires react >= 16.8.3
• The props contained in handlers are currently ref and onMouseDown
  • Please spread handlers as the props contained in it could change as react changes event listening capabilities

preventScrollOnSwipe details

This prop prevents scroll during swipe in most cases. Use this to stop scrolling in the browser while a user swipes.

Swipeable will call e.preventDefault() internally in an attempt to stop the browser's touchmove event default action (mostly scrolling).

NOTE: preventScrollOnSwipe option supersedes touchEventOptions.passive for the touchmove event listener

Example scenario:

If a user is swiping right with props { onSwipedRight: userSwipedRight, preventScrollOnSwipe: true } then e.preventDefault() will be called, but if the user was swiping left then e.preventDefault() would not be called.

e.preventDefault() is only called when:

• preventScrollOnSwipe: true
• trackTouch: true
• the users current swipe has an associated onSwiping or onSwiped handler/prop

Please experiment with the example app to test preventScrollOnSwipe.

passive listener details

Swipeable adds the passive event listener option, by default, to internal uses of touch addEventListener's. We set the passive option to false only when preventScrollOnSwipe is true and only to touchmove. Other listeners will retain passive: true.

When preventScrollOnSwipe is:

• true => el.addEventListener('touchmove', cb, { passive: false })
• false => el.addEventListener('touchmove', cb, { passive: true })

Here is more information on react's long running passive event issue.

We previously had issues with chrome lighthouse performance deducting points for not having passive option set so it is now on by default except in the case mentioned above.

If, however, you really need all of the listeners to be passive (for performance reasons or otherwise), you can prevent all scrolling on the swipeable container by using the touch-action css property instead, see below for an example.

Version 7 Updates and migration

If upgrading from v6 refer to the release notes and the migration doc.

FAQs

How can I add a swipe listener to the document?

Example by @merrywhether #180

Example codesandbox with swipeable on document and nested swipe

https://codesandbox.io/s/react-swipeable-document-swipe-example-1yvr2v

const { ref } = useSwipeable({
  ...
}) as { ref: RefCallback<Document> };

useEffect(() => {
  ref(document);
});

How to share ref from useSwipeable?

Example ref passthrough, more details #189:

const MyComponent = () => {
  const handlers = useSwipeable({ onSwiped: () => console.log('swiped') })

  // setup ref for your usage
  const myRef = React.useRef();

  const refPassthrough = (el) => {
    // call useSwipeable ref prop with el
    handlers.ref(el);

    // set myRef el so you can access it yourself
    myRef.current = el;
  }

  return (<div {...handlers} ref={refPassthrough} />
}

How to use touch-action to prevent scrolling?

Sometimes you don't want the body of your page to scroll along with the user manipulating or swiping an item. Or you might want all of the internal event listeners to be passive and performant.

You can prevent scrolling via preventScrollOnSwipe, which calls event.preventDefault() during onTouchMove. But there may be a simpler, more effective solution, which has to do with a simple CSS property.

touch-action is a CSS property that sets how an element's region can be manipulated by a touchscreen user. See the documentation for touch-action to determine which property value to use for your particular use case.

Static example

const handlers = useSwipeable({
  onSwiped: (eventData) => console.log("User Swiped!", eventData),
  ...config,
});

return <div {...handlers} style={{ touchAction: 'pan-y' }}>Swipe here</div>;

This explanation and example borrowed from use-gesture's wonderful docs.

Dynamic example

const MySwipeableComponent = props => {
  const [stopScroll, setStopScroll] = useState(false);

  const handlers = useSwipeable({
    onSwipeStart: () => setStopScroll(true),
    onSwiped: () => setStopScroll(false)
  });

  return <div {...handlers} style={{ touchAction: stopScroll ? 'none' : 'auto' }}>Swipe here</div>;
};

This is a somewhat contrived example as the final outcome would be similar to the static example. However, there may be cases where you want to determine when the user can scroll based on the user's swiping action along with any number of variables from state and props.

License

MIT

Contributing

Please see our contributions guide.

Maintainers

Project Maintenance

Maintenance Status

Active: Formidable is actively working on this project, and we expect to continue for work for the foreseeable future. Bug reports, feature requests and pull requests are welcome.