What is react-toastify?
The react-toastify package allows developers to add customizable notification toasts to their React applications. It provides an easy way to display success, error, warning, and informational messages with a variety of animations, positions, and options.
What are react-toastify's main functionalities?
Displaying Toast Notifications
This feature allows you to display a simple toast notification with a message. The toast function can be called with a string message to display it to the user.
import { toast } from 'react-toastify';
toast('Hello World!');
Customizing Toast Appearance
This feature allows you to customize the appearance and behavior of the toast. You can specify the type (like success, error, etc.), position, auto-close time, and many other options.
import { toast } from 'react-toastify';
toast.success('Success!', {
position: "top-right",
autoClose: 5000,
hideProgressBar: false,
closeOnClick: true,
pauseOnHover: true,
draggable: true,
progress: undefined,
});
Custom Rendered Components
This feature allows you to render a custom React component inside the toast. This is useful for creating complex toasts with custom layouts and functionality.
import { toast } from 'react-toastify';
const CustomToast = ({ closeToast }) => (
<div>
Something went wrong! <button onClick={closeToast}>Close</button>
</div>
);
toast(<CustomToast />);
Updating Existing Toasts
This feature allows you to update an existing toast's content or appearance. You can change the message, type, or any other property of the toast after it has been displayed.
import { toast } from 'react-toastify';
const toastId = React.useRef(null);
const updateToast = () => {
toast.update(toastId.current, { type: toast.TYPE.INFO, render: 'Updated!' });
};
// Create a toast and save its ID
toastId.current = toast('Initial message');
Controlling Toasts Programmatically
This feature gives you programmatic control over the toasts. You can dismiss all toasts or specific toasts by their ID, which can be useful in scenarios where user actions or other events should close notifications.
import { toast } from 'react-toastify';
// Display a toast
toast('Will close in 5 seconds', { autoClose: 5000 });
// Dismiss all toasts on demand
toast.dismiss();
// Dismiss a specific toast by ID
toast.dismiss(toastId.current);
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notistack
Notistack is a Snackbar notification library that can be used with Material-UI. It allows for stacking notifications and offers similar customization options. Compared to react-toastify, it is more tightly integrated with Material-UI components and design patterns.
react-notification-system
React Notification System is another package for adding notifications to a React app. It provides a different set of customization options and a slightly different API. It is less maintained compared to react-toastify and might not have as many features.
sweetalert2-react-content
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