React Page Visible

There are two common approaches to know if your page is currently visible by the user:

• Focus event
• Page Visibility API

None of the approaches does cover all user cases. For instance, switching to a different application, in desktop enviroment, does not trigger the Visibility API but the focus event. In a mobile device is the opposite. See difference table

This implementation, which is a React Component using render props, also introduces a new visible property which is aimed to cover both approaches and give a consistent behaviour across browsers and mobile devices.

See demo

Example

import PageVisible from 'react-page-visible'
 
export default class App extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <PageVisible>
        {({ visible }) => (
          <h1>My page is {visible ? 'visible' : 'hidden'}</h1>
        )}
      </PageVisible>
    )
  }
}
 

Installation

yarn add react-page-visible

Development

This app is powered by Next.js.

Install dependencies

yarn

Start dev server:

yarn && yarn dev