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use-eye-dropper
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👀🩸🧫 Browser color picker hook for React.
Implements the EyeDropper API into an easy-to-use React hook. This API is currently only available in Chromium based browsers.
isSupported
method.close
method to cancel eye dropper (signals can still be used).pnpm
pnpm add use-eye-dropper
Yarn
yarn add use-eye-dropper
npm
npm install use-eye-dropper
import React, { useState, useCallback } from 'react'
import useEyeDropper from 'use-eye-dropper'
const App = () => {
const { open, close, isSupported } = useEyeDropper()
const [color, setColor] = useState('#fff')
const [error, setError] = useState()
// useEyeDropper will reject/cleanup the open() promise on unmount,
// so setState never fires when the component is unmounted.
const pickColor = useCallback(() => {
// Using async/await (can be used as a promise as-well)
const openPicker = async () => {
try {
const color = await open()
setColor(color.sRGBHex)
} catch (e) {
console.log(e)
// Ensures component is still mounted
// before calling setState
if (!e.canceled) setError(e)
}
}
openPicker()
}, [open])
return (
<>
<div style={{ padding: '64px', background: color }}>Selected color</div>
{isSupported() ?
<button onClick={pickColor}>Pick color</button>
: <span>EyeDropper API not supported in this browser</span>
}
{!!error && <div>{error.message}</div>}
</>
)
}
With TypeScript all of the types will be inferred where possible, however if you need to use error
handling some type-guard functions can be used to narrow down the type of the
error from the catch block. Otherwise it will be unknown
.
Here is one approach to deal with this when working with TypeScript and dropper errors:
type DropperError = {
message: string
canceled?: boolean
}
const isError = <T, >(err: DropperError | T): err is DropperError =>
!!err && err instanceof Error && !!err.message
const isNotCanceled = <T, >(err: DropperError | T): err is DropperError =>
isError(err) && !err.canceled
and then !e.canceled
can be replaced with isNotCanceled(e)
, the type-guard will enforce a proper type when using setError
.
This will also work for isError
.
open({ signal?: AbortSignal }) => Promise<{ sRGBHex: string }>'
Opens the EyeDropper API in supported browsers and returns a
promise which will resolve with the selected color. Alternatively the promise will be rejected if
the user cancels the operation, for instance by hitting escape.
Additionally if the browser does not support the API, the
promise is rejected. While the spec currently indicates that a
6-digit HEX value is returned, the current Chrome implementation
returns a rgba
value.
close() => void
This method closes the EyeDropper API selector if it is open and
rejects the promise from open
. Otherwise this
performs a no-op.
isSupported() => boolean
Determines if the EyeDropper API is supported in the current browser.
FAQs
Browser color picker hook for React
We found that use-eye-dropper demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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