React Image Timeline

An image-centric timeline component for React.js. View chronological events in a pleasant way.

View Sample Timeline

Features:

• Responsive layout
• Graceful handling of non-uniform content
• Customizable (use your own CSS and components)
• Memoized, pure, & typed (Typescript definitions included)
• Only 32kb
• Zero extra dependencies

How to Use

npm install react-image-timeline --save

import React from 'react';
import ReactDOM from 'react-dom';
import Timeline from 'react-image-timeline';
require('react-image-timeline/dist/timeline.css'); // .scss also available
 
const events = [
    {
        date: new Date(2013, 9, 27),
        text: "Sed leo elit, pellentesque sit amet congue quis, ornare nec lorem.",
        title: "Cairo, Egypt",
        buttonText: 'Click Me',
        imageUrl: "http://github.com/aaron9000/react-image-timeline/blob/master/src/assets/cairo.jpg?raw=true",
        onClick: console.log,
    }
];
 
ReactDOM.render(<Timeline events={events} />, document.getElementById('root'));

Customization

Custom Styles

To customize the timeline, add your own CSS to override the default styles.

Event Metadata

To pass extra data into custom components, use extras on TimelineEvent.

Custom Dot Pattern

The dots are defined in CSS using a base64-encoded image. Encode a new image and override the corresponding CSS class.

Custom Components

For more advanced customization, you can pass in custom components to replace the defaults. Custom components will be passed a TimelineEvent model in props.

 
const CustomHeader = (props) => {
 
    const {title, extras} = props.event;
    const {customField} = extras;
 
    return <div className="custom-header">
        <h1>{title}</h1>
        <p>{customField}</p>
    </div>;
};
 
ReactDOM.render(<Timeline events={events} customComponents={{header: CustomHeader}}/>, document.getElementById('root'));

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Run Example Project (you will need create-react-app to run)

*install create-react-app*
*clone repository*
yarn
yarn --debug
yarn start

Run Tests

*clone repository*
yarn test

TypeScript & Models

Typescript definitions are included in the library.

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Importing TypeScript Definitions

import {
    TimelineProps, 
    TimelineEventProps, 
    TimelineEvent, 
    TimelineCustomComponents
} from 'react-image-timeline';

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TimelineProps

export interface TimelineProps {
    customComponents?: TimelineCustomComponents | null;
    events: Array<TimelineEvent>;
    reverseOrder?: boolean;
    denseLayout?: boolean;
}

Key	Type	Required?
events	Array	Yes
customComponents	TimelineCustomComponents
reverseOrder	boolean
denseLayout	boolean

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TimelineCustomComponents

export interface TimelineCustomComponents {
    topLabel?: React.PureComponent<TimelineEventProps> | React.ReactNode | null;
    bottomLabel?: React.PureComponent<TimelineEventProps> | React.ReactNode | null;
    header?: React.PureComponent<TimelineEventProps> | React.ReactNode | null;
    imageBody?: React.PureComponent<TimelineEventProps> | React.ReactNode | null;
    textBody?: React.PureComponent<TimelineEventProps> | React.ReactNode | null;
    footer?: React.PureComponent<TimelineEventProps> | React.ReactNode | null;
}

Key	Type	Required?
topLabel	component
bottomLabel	component
header	component
imageBody	component
textBody	component
footer	component

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TimelineEventProps

export interface TimelineEventProps {
    event: TimelineEvent;
}

Key	Type	Required?
event	TimelineEvent	Yes

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TimelineEvent

export interface TimelineEvent {
    date: Date;
    title: string;
    imageUrl: string;
    text: string;
    onClick?: TimelineEventClickHandler | null;
    buttonText?: string | null;
    extras?: object | null;
}

Key	Type	Required?
date	date	Yes
title	string	Yes
imageUrl	string	Yes
text	string	Yes
onClick	function
buttonText	string
extras	object