pan-responder-hook

pan-responder-hook offers a gesture responder system for your react application. It's heavily inspired by react-native's pan-responder and the implementation found in react-native-web. It's built for use in Sancho-UI.

Features

• The ability to delegate between multiple overlapping gestures. This means that you can embed gesture responding views within eachother and provide negotiation strategies between them.
• Simple kinematics for gesture based animations. Values including distance, velocity, delta, and direction are provided through gesture callbacks.
• Integrates well with react-spring to create performant animations.

Getting started

Install into your react project using yarn or npm.

yarn add pan-responder-hook

The example below demonstrates how it can be used in conjunction with react-spring.

import { useSpring, animated } from "react-spring";
import { usePanResponder } from "pan-responder-hook";
 
function Draggable() {
  const [{ xy }, set] = useSpring(() => ({
    xy: [0, 0]
  }));
 
  const { bind } = usePanResponder({
    onStartShouldSet: () => true,
    onRelease: onEnd,
    onTerminate: onEnd,
    onMove: state => {
      set({
        xy: delta,
        immediate: true
      });
    }
  });
 
  function onEnd() {
    set({ xy: [0, 0], immediate: false });
  }
 
  return (
    <animated.div
      style={{
        transform: xy.interpolate((x, y) => `translate3d(${x}px, ${y}px, 0)`)
      }}
      {...bind}
    />
  );
}

API

Only one pan responder can be active at any given time. The pan-responder hook provides callbacks which allow you to implement a negotiation strategy between competing views.

• onStartShouldSet: (state, e) => boolean - Should the view become the responder upon first touch?
• onMoveShouldSet: (state, e) => boolean - This is called during any gesture movement on the view. You can return true to claim the responder for that view.
• onStartShouldSetCapture: (state, e) => boolean - The same as above, but using event capturing instead of bubbling. Useful if you want a parent view to capture the responder prior to children.
• onMoveShouldSetCapture: (state, e) => boolean.
• onTerminationRequest: (state) => boolean. - Should we allow the responder to be claimed by another view? This is only called when a parent onMoveShouldSet returns true. By default, it returns true.

By default, if a parent and child both return true from onStartShouldSet the child element will claim the responder.

Once a responder is claimed, other callbacks can be used to provide visual feedback to the user.

• onGrant: (state, e) => void - called when the view claims the responder, typically corresponding with mousedown or touchstart events.
• onMove: (state, e) => void
• onRelease: (state, e) => void - corresponds with mouseup or touchend events.
• onTerminate: (state) => void - called when the responder is claimed by another view.

const { bind } = usePanResponder(
  {
    onStartShouldSet: state => true,
    onStartShouldSetCapture: state => false,
    onMoveShouldSet: state => false,
    onMoveShouldSetCapture: state => false,
    onTerminationRequest: state => true,
    onGrant: state => {},
    onRelease: state => {},
    onTerminate: state => {},
    onMove: state => {}
  },
  {
    uid: "a-unique-id",
    enableMouse: true
  }
);

state contains the following values:

export interface StateType {
  time: number;
  xy: [number, number];
  delta: [number, number];
  initial: [number, number];
  previous: [number, number];
  direction: [number, number];
  local: [number, number];
  lastLocal: [number, number];
  velocity: number;
  distance: number;
}

Prior art

• react-native-web
• react-with-gesture for some of the kinematics.