vertical-timeline-reactjs

vertical-timeline-component-react

A simple component to generate a responsive vertical timeline

Status

Getting started

To install as npm dependency

npm install --save vertical-timeline-component-react

API Documentation

Timeline

This is the wrapper component that creates the vertical timeline.

• Childrens

Number of children	Required	Value Allowed
Many	At least the first Container component is required	Only Container components

• Props

name	Type	Required	Values Allowed	default values	Description
theme	object	false	colors	{ yearColor: "#888888", lineColor: "#c5c5c5", dotColor: "#c5c5c5", borderDotColor: "#ffffff", titleColor: "#cccccc", subtitleColor: "#888888", textColor: "#cccccc" }	Set colors in all components
lang	node	false	en, es or de	en	Change the language from and to texts and change the format in the dates
dateFormat	string	false	L, l or ll	L	Change the presentation format of dates

dateFormat: Receive only one of three options. (The options are same the moment.js using).

• The option L will return a date like MM/DD/YYYY (in English), DD/MM/YYYY (in Spanish) DD.MM.YYYY (in German).
• The option l will return a date like M/D/YYYY (in English), D/M/YYYY (in Spanish) D.M.YYYY (in German).
• The option ll will return a date like MMM DD, YYYY (in English), DD de MMM, YYYY (in Spanish) DD. MMM YYYY (in German).

Container

Each event in the timeline will be represented by the Content component. This component receive only two children's, the first is YearContent and the second is BodyContent. There can be multiple repeating instances of this component inside Timeline wrapper.

• Childrens

Number of children	Required	Value Allowed
2	true	YearContent and BodyContent

YearContent

For each Container you need YearContent (like firts children) since with this component you mark the events in the given year.

• Props

Name	Type	Required	Values Allowed	default values	Description
startDate	string	true	YYYY/MM/DD - YYYY/MM - YYYY	does not apply	The date of the start of the content or contents
endDate	string	false	YYYY/MM/DD - YYYY/MM - YYYY	does not apply	The date of the end of the content or contents
currentYear	boolean	false	true or false	current year	The value is the current year, it is recommended to use it in the last Container

BodyContent

For each Container you need ContentBody (like second children). This component will be the container of the one or more Sections.

• Childrens

Number of children	Required	Value Allowed
Many	At least the first Section component is required	Only Section components

Section

This component is the container for one or more Description.

• Childrens

Number of children	Required	Value Allowed
Many	At least the first Description component is required	Only Description components

• Props

Name	Type	Required	Description
title	string	true	It's the title of any section

Description

This component can be the text of the description or a subtitle

• Props

Name	Type	Required	Values Allowed	default values	Description
variant	string	false	subtitle or description	description	Transform the format of the text
text	string	true	Any text	does not apply	Show the description of the Section

How to use it

The following snippet will show you how to use the library:

Using class components:

import {
 Timeline,
 Container,
 YearContent,
 BodyContent,
 Section,
 Description,
} from 'vertical-timeline-component-react';

const customTheme = {
 yearColor: '#405b73',
 lineColor: '#d0cdc4',
 dotColor: '#262626',
 borderDotColor: '#d0cdc4',
 titleColor: '#405b73',
 subtitleColor: '#bf9765',
 textColor: '#262626',
};

class Main extends Component {
 render() {
  return(
   <Timeline theme={customTheme} dateFormat='ll'>
    <Container>
     <YearContent startDate='2020/07/01' currentYear />
     <BodyContent>
      <Section title='Title'>
       <Description variant='subtitle' text='Subtitle' />
       <Description text='Description' />
       <Description text='Another description' />
      </Section>

      <Section title='Another title'>
       <Description text='Description' />
       <Description text='Another description' />
      </Section>
     </BodyContent>
    </Container>
   </Timeline>,
  );
 }
}

Using function components:

import {
 Timeline,
 Container,
 YearContent,
 BodyContent,
 Section,
 Description,
} from 'vertical-timeline-component-react';

const Main = () => {
 const customTheme = {
  yearColor: '#405b73',
  lineColor: '#d0cdc4',
  dotColor: '#262626',
  borderDotColor: '#d0cdc4',
  titleColor: '#405b73',
  subtitleColor: '#bf9765',
  textColor: '#262626',
 };

 return (
  <Timeline theme={customTheme} dateFormat='ll'>
   <Container>
    <YearContent startDate='2020/07/01' currentYear />
    <BodyContent>
     <Section title='Title'>
      <Description variant='subtitle' text='Subtitle' />
      <Description text='Description' />
      <Description text='Another description' />
     </Section>

     <Section title='Another title'>
      <Description text='Description' />
      <Description text='Another description' />
     </Section>
    </BodyContent>
   </Container>
  </Timeline>
 );
};

License

MIT