React Mixout - Listen

For a full description of what this is please refer to the main README file of this project.

Heavily inspired by react-event-listener.

You can use this mixout to bind global events to methods on your component. It will also manage memory for you, i.e. register on mount, remove on unmount.

Installation

You can install this package with the following command:

npm install react-mixout-listen

Examples

Simple

You can easily bind a class method with a global event.

import React from 'react';
import mixout from 'react-mixout';
import listen from 'react-mixout-listen';
 
class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  onResize(event) {
    // handle resize
  }
 
  render() {
    return null;
  }
}
 
// By default mixout will attach the listener to window.
export default mixout(listen('resize', 'onResize'))(MyComponent);

Modify Target

If you need to attach the listener to another node you can use the target property on options.

The target can be either a string (key on window) like: document or window, or a callback returning the element to attach the listener on. Defaults to window.

Why a callback? Server doesn't have window or document. Since the target is not needed until after mounting, this can approach ensure that server-side rendering is always supported out of box.

import React from 'react';
import mixout from 'react-mixout';
import listen from 'react-mixout-listen';
 
class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  onClick(event) {
    // handle resize
  }
 
  render() {
    return null;
  }
}
 
export default mixout(listen('click', 'onClick', { target: 'document' }))(MyComponent);
 
// Or ...
 
// You can return any node you wish from the callback.
export default mixout(listen('click', 'onClick', { target: () => document.body }))(MyComponent);

Use Capture

If you need to pass down the useCapture argument you can add useCapture: true to the options.

import React from 'react';
import mixout from 'react-mixout';
import listen from 'react-mixout-listen';
 
class MyComponent extends React.Component {
  onResize(event) {
    // handle resize
  }
 
  render() {
    return null;
  }
}
 
export default mixout(listen('resize', 'onResize', { useCapture: true }))(MyComponent);

API Reference

listen

function listen(event: string, method: string, options?: ListenOptions): Injector
 
interface ListenOptions {
  target?: string | (() => EventTarget);
  useCapture?: boolean;
}

• event: The name of the event to pass to addEventListener.
• method: The name of the method on the wrapped component to call when the event fires.
• options: The extra options to customize behavior.
  • target: The name of the key on window or a callback returning the target node.
  • useCapture: Determines whether the addEventListener should be called with useCapture: true.

Typings

The typescript type definitions are also available and are installed via npm.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT license.