react-html-refs

A collection of react hooks/providers to help you scroll by through life and focus on the right stuff.

Tired of React.RefObject chains all-over your project?
Tired of document.querySelector?.('.meaning-of-life') in a React app?
Do you want to manually focus on a html input across the application or scroll the user to a specific element? Yeah, me neither

Well then this project is for you!

With the code below you can manage all your html element related needs in your React app, just:

• Wrap your React app in a Destinations provider, with your collection of useful handlers
• Use the useDestination hook or Destination component to register html element destinations
• Use useDestination to apply code to your registered destinations

See the example:

import React from 'react';
import { render } from 'react-dom';

import { useDestination, Destinations, Destination, Handler, chain, DebugLogger, silence, wrapUnknown } from 'react-html-refs';

type DestinationType = 'A';
type HandlerCategory = 'Focus' | 'Scroll';

const App = (): JSX.Element => {
    const { handle } = useDestination<DestinationType, HandlerCategory>('A');

    return (
        <>
            <Destination<DestinationType> destinationId="A">I am a destination</Destination>
            <button onClick={() => handle(wrapUnknown((el) => el.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth' })))}>Scroll!</button>
            <button onClick={() => handle('Focus')}>Scroll!</button>
        </>
    );
};

render(
    <Destinations<HandlerCategory>
        defaulHandler={chain(
            silence(wrapUnknown((el) => el.scrollIntoView({ behavior: 'smooth' }))),
            silence(wrapUnknown((el) => el.scrollTo({ behavior: 'smooth' }))),
            wrapUnknown((el) => window.scrollTo(0, el.offsetTop)),
        )}
        handlers={{
            Scroll: wrapUnknown((el) => window.scrollTo(0, el.offsetTop)),
            Focus: wrapUnknown((el) => el.focus()),
        }}
        logger={new DebugLogger()}
    >
        <App />
    </Destinations>,
    document.querySelector('#app'),
);

If you are using typescript, I strongly recommend strongly typing your ids and handler categories so its easier to manage them.