reactbox

Reactbox - React.js lightbox

Every ecosystem needs its own lightbox, right? So does React.js.

Main features:

• Nice minimal UI.
• Based on React.js and Flux idioms.
• Can be used in a non-react environment.
• Lots of item types.
• 3 item layout supported (see demo).
• No dependencies.
• Clean API - provides a simple one-function API, plus a React component.
• Responsive and mobile friendly.
• Supports swiping.
• Sharing features.
• Deeplinking support.
• Supports carousel mode.

Supported item types

• Images.
• Youtube or Vimeo videos.
• Iframe content.
• AJAX content.
• HTML content.

All these item types come with a number of lightbox layout options.

Installation

You can install Reactbox from npm with one command:

npm install --save reactbox

or

yarn add reactbox

Usage

import reactbox from 'reactbox'

reactbox(items)

This will open Reactbox in your application, passing it items as an option.

Options available

carousel

Default: true

If the thumbnail carousel below the mainbox will be displayed. Carousel is only displayed on if the screen is 768+ px wide.

Example:

reactbox({
  items: [...],
  carousel: false
})

share

Defines the list of the sharing services displayed.

Default:

{
  facebook: {
    url: "//www.facebook.com/share.php?v=4&src=bm&u=%url%",
    name: 'Facebook'
  },
  twitter: {
    url: "//twitter.com/home?status=%url%"
    name: 'Twitter'
  },
  googleplus: {
    url: "//plus.google.com/share?url=%url%",
    name: 'Google Plus'
  },
  reddit: {
    url: "//reddit.com/submit?url=%url%",
    name: 'Reddit'
  },
  digg: {
    url: "//digg.com/submit?phase=2&url=%url%",
    name: 'Digg'
  }
  stumbleupon: {
    url: "http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=%url%&title=%title%",
    name: "Stumbleupon"
  }
  delicious: {
    url: "//delicious.com/post?url=%url%",
    name: 'Delicious'
  }
  pinterest: {
    url: "https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=%url%&media=%image_url%&description=%description%&title=%title%",
    name: 'Pinterest'
  }
  vk: {
    url: "http://vk.com/share.php?url=%url%",
    name: 'VK'
  }

Example:

// Will only show Facebook for sharing
reactbox({
  items: [...],
  share: {
    facebook: {
      url: "//www.facebook.com/share.php?v=4&src=bm&u=%url%",
      name: 'Facebook'
    }
  }
})

theme

Color theme used. Valid values are null, "black" or "white".

Default: "black"

items

An array of the items you want to show in a lightbox. See below for the docs on the item description format.

Default: null

Example:

reactbox({
  items: [{url: 'http:/example.com/img/image.jpg'}]
})

Item properties:

url

default: null

The URL of the object (image, video, ajax request, iframe).

type

default: image

The type of the item. Valid types are:

• image
• video
• ajax
• html
• iframe

thumbnail

default: null

Thumbnail URL for the carousel. When no thumbnail is provided - the item does not show in a carousel (but is still shown in a lightbox).

description

default: null

Item description object:

{
  style: 'none', // one of the 'none', 'mini', 'right', 'bottom'
  title: 'some title', // description title
  text: 'Some text' // description text
}

download

default: null

Item download URL. Enables the download link at the top of the lightbox window.

alt

default: null

Item alt description to be added as alt tag to the thumbnails and main lightbox image.