🪟 easy-dialogs

Easy to use, function-based, type safe dialogs manager for React.

View demo / NPM

Installation

# yarn
yarn install easy-dialogs

# npm
npm install easy-dialogs

# pnpm
pnpm install easy-dialogs

Usage

1. Import into your root layout.

import { Dialog } from "easy-dialogs"

function App() {
    return (
        <section>
            {/* ...rest of your root layout */}
            <Dialog />
        </section>
    )
}

export default App

2. Create an array with dialogs list

import DialogComponent from "../components/DialogComponent";

export const dialogs = [
    { id: "test-dialog", component: DialogComponent }
    // Here you can add more dialogs
] as const

3. Import "useDialogManager()" hook inside React component

import { useDialogManager } from "easy-dialogs";
import { dialogs } from "../libs/dialogs";

const List = () => {
    const { callDialog } = useDialogManager(dialogs)
    return (
        <div>
            <button onClick={async () => {
                const result = await callDialog("test-dialog")
                if(result) {
                    alert('Result is success!') 
                }else{
                    alert('Result is failure :(') 
                }
            }}>Call me!</button>
        </div>
    );
}

export default List;

❗ Important notes

• Dialog components MUST return some value. callDialog() function awaits for the response from the Dialog component.

  Example:

  type ExampleDialogType = {
      onClose: (val: boolean) => void,
      additionalProps?: {
          id: string
      }
  }
  
  const DialogComponent: React.FC<ExampleDialogType> = ({ onClose, additionalProps }) => {
      return (
          <div>
              <h1>Example dialog {additionalProps?.id}</h1>
              <button onClick={() => onClose(true)}>Success!</button>
              <button onClick={() => onClose(false)}>Failure :(</button>
          </div>
      );
  }
  
  export default DialogComponent;

• To handle Exit Animations in your dialog component, first add the useExitAnimation: true property in dialogs list.

  export const dialogs = [
      { id: "test-dialog", component: DialogComponent, useExitAnimation: true }
      // Here you can add more dialogs
  ] as const

  Then, in your dialog component you need to set the data-state property and the onAnimationEnd() function and pass it into the dialog parent.

  type ExampleDialogType = {
      onClose: (val: boolean) => void,
      ["data-state"]?: string,
      onAnimationEnd?: () => void;
      additionalProps?: {
          id: string
      }
  }
  
  const DialogComponent: React.FC<ExampleDialogType> = ({ onClose, additionalProps, ...rest }) => {
      return (
          <div data-state={rest["data-state"]} onAnimationEnd={rest.onAnimationEnd}>
              ...
          </div>
      );
  }
  
  export default DialogComponent;

  The package will add data-state="closed" attribute while everything has been set up properly. In order to handle animations, you must add exit animation for example using TailwindCSS: data-[state=closed]:!animate-fadeout. When useExitAnimation is set to true and the animation is not set up, then the dialog won't close!

• For Next.js users: <Dialog /> component MUST be rendered on the client.

Update history

- 0.1.6:
    - Added support for dialog exit animations
    - Added 'getActiveDialogs()' export
- 0.1.5 - Fixed additionalProps type issue
- 0.1.4 - Added support for multiple dialogs rendered at once.

Acknowledgements

• Jotai