@elissaioskon/scrollable-list

Scrollable List

Scroll to an element within a list easily 😃

Codesandbox example

Motivation

A common ui scenario is a list with some items. User should be able to move on next item in the list on some keypress (e.g on down arrow click) and the scroll should move to that element too. In order to achieve that with react, a ref should be kept for every list item in order to move scroll to that item. This library makes this task easy to achieve.

import React, {useRef, useState} from 'react'

const emojis = [
  "😀 Grinning Face",
  "😃 Grinning Face With Big Eyes",
  "😄 Grinning Face With Smiling Eyes"
 ]

const App = () => {
    const ref = useRef()
    const [currentScrollIndex, setCurrentScrollIndex] = useState(0)
    
    return (
      <>
          <ScrollView ref={ref}>
              <div className="list-container">
                {emojis.map( emoji => (
                   <ScrollableElement>
                      <div className="list-item">{emoji}</div>
                   </ScrollableElement>
                ))}
              </div>
          </ScrollView>
          
         <button onClick = {()=> ref.current.scroll.toPreviousItem(currentScrollIndex, setCurrentScrollIndex)}>Scroll to Previous</button>
         <button onClick = {()=> ref.current.scroll.toNextItem(currentScrollIndex, setCurrentScrollIndex)}>Scroll to Next</button>
         <button onClick = {()=> ref.current.scroll.toIndex(5, setCurrentScrollIndex)}>Scroll to fifth Item</button>
      </>
    )
}

Install

• Using yarn
  yarn add @elissaioskon/scrollable-list

• Using npm
  npm install @elissaioskon/scrollable-list

API

• ScrollView
• ScrollableElement