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use-reading-duration
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A custom React hook that estimates the reading time of any given text.
A custom React hook for estimating the reading duration of a text.
Install use-reading-duration using npm:
npm install use-reading-duration
Or with yarn:
yarn add use-reading-duration
Here is a simple example of how to use use-reading-duration:
import React from 'react';
import useReadingTime from 'use-reading-duration';
const MyComponent = () => {
const text = "Your long text goes here...";
const wordsPerMinute = 250;
const readingTime = useReadingTime(text, wordsPerMinute);
return (
<div>
<p>Estimated reading time: {readingTime} minutes</p>
<p>{text}</p>
</div>
);
};
In this example, useReadingTime is called with two arguments: the text to be read and the average reading speed in words per minute. The wordsPerMinute parameter is optional, the default value is 200.
This project is licensed under the AGPL-3.0
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A custom React hook that estimates the reading time of any given text.
The npm package use-reading-duration receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, use-reading-duration popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that use-reading-duration demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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