react-cam

HTML5 Web/Mobile camera for ReactJS

Installation

NPM

npm install react-cam

Yarn

yarn add react-cam

How to use it?

props

Prop name	Optional	Default	Description
showFocus	Yes	false	show/hide the blue focus box, basically useless...
front	Yes	false	true: front camera, false: rear camera
capture	No	None	A function to handle base64 string image
width	No	480	Camera pixel width, percentage or absolute value
height	No	320	Camera pixel height, percentage or absolute value
focusWidth	Yes	80%	Camera focus box width, percentage or absolute value
focusHeight	Yes	50%	Camera focus box height, percentage or absolute value
btnColor	Yes	'#2acef5'	Set color of the capture button
onError	No		Handles camera error, the error object will be passed as the function argument

example

import React, { Fragment, useRef } from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import { Camera } from 'react-cam';
 
function capture(imgSrc) {
  console.log(imgSrc);
}
 
const App = () => {
  const cam = useRef(null);
  return (
    <Fragment>
      <Camera
        showFocus={true}
        front={false}
        capture={capture}
        ref={cam}
        width="80%"
        height="auto"
        focusWidth="80%"
        focusHeight="60%"
        btnColor="white"
      />
      <button onClick={img => cam.current.capture(img)}>Take image</button>
    </Fragment>
  );
};
ReactDOM.render(<App />, document.getElementById('root'));