tony / the-platform

Web. Components. 😂

The Platform

Web API's turned into React Hooks and Suspense-friendly React components. #useThePlatform

Install

Note: React 16.8+ is required for Hooks.

With npm

npm i the-platform --save

Or with yarn

yarn add the-platform

Examples

• Basics
• Low Quality Image Placeholder
• Using <Script> and Stripe Checkout

API

• Hooks
  • useDeviceMotion()
  • useDeviceOrientation()
  • useGeoPosition()
  • useNetworkStatus()
  • useMedia()
  • useScript()
  • useStylesheet()
  • useWindowScrollPosition()
  • useWindowSize()
• Components
  • <Img>
  • <Script>
  • <Video>
  • <Audio>
  • <Preload>
  • <Stylesheet>
• Authors
• Inspiration

Hooks

useDeviceMotion()

Detect and retrieve current device Motion.

Returns

DeviceMotionEvent

Example

import { useDeviceMotion } from 'the-platform';

const Example = () => {
  const { acceleration, rotationRate, interval } = useDeviceMotion();

  // ...
};

useDeviceOrientation()

Detect and retrieve current device orientation.

Returns

DeviceOrientationEvent

Example

import { useDeviceOrientation } from 'the-platform';

const Example = () => {
  const { alpha, beta, gamma, absolute } = useDeviceOrientation();

  // ...
};

useGeoPosition()

Retrieve Geo position from the browser. This will throw a promise (must use with Suspense).

Arguments

PositionOptions

Returns

Position

Example

import { useGeoPosition } from 'the-platform';

const Example = () => {
  const {
    coords: { latitude, longitude },
  } = useGeoPosition();

  // ...
};

useNetworkStatus()

Retrieve network status from the browser.

Returns

Object containing:

• isOnline: boolean: true if the browser has network access. false otherwise.

• offlineAt?: Date: Date when network connection was lost.

Example

import { useNetworkStatus } from 'the-platform';

const Example = () => {
  const { isOnline, offlineAt } = useNetworkStatus();

  // ...
};

useMedia()

Arguments

query: string | object: media query string or object (parsed by json2mq).

Returns

match: boolean: true if the media query matches, false otherwise.

Example

import { useMedia } from 'the-platform';

const Example = () => {
  const small = useMedia('(min-width: 400px)');
  const medium = useMedia({ minWidth: 800 });

  // ...
};

useScript()

This will throw a promise (must use with Suspense).

Arguments

Object containing:

• src: string: The script's URI.

import { useScript } from 'the-platform';

const Example = () => {
  const _unused = useScript({ src: 'bundle.js' });

  // ...
};

useStylesheet()

This will throw a promise (must use with Suspense).

Arguments

Object containing:

• href: string: The stylesheet's URI.
• media?: string: Intended destination media for style information.

import { useStylesheet } from 'the-platform';

const Example = () => {
  const _unused = useStylesheet({ href: 'normalize.css' });

  // ...
};

useWindowScrollPosition()

Returns

Object containing:

• x: number: Horizontal scroll in pixels (window.pageXOffset).
• y: number: Vertical scroll in pixels (window.pageYOffset).

Example

import { useWindowScrollPosition } from 'the-platform';

const Example = () => {
  const { x, y } = useWindowScrollPosition();

  // ...
};

useWindowSize()

Returns

Object containing:

• width: Width of browser viewport (window.innerWidth)
• height: Height of browser viewport (window.innerHeight)

Example

import { useWindowSize } from 'the-platform';

const Example = () => {
  const { width, height } = useWindowSize();

  // ...
};

Components

<Img>

Props

• src: string
• anything else you can pass to an <img> tag

import React from 'react';
import { Img } from 'the-platform';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Hello</h1>
      <React.Suspense maxDuration={300} fallback={'loading...'}>
        <Img src="https://source.unsplash.com/random/4000x2000" />
      </React.Suspense>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

<Script>

Props

• src: string
• children?: () => React.ReactNode - This render prop will only execute after the script has loaded.
• anything else you can pass to a <script> tag

import React from 'react';
import { Script } from 'the-platform';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Load Stripe.js Async</h1>
      <React.Suspense maxDuration={300} fallback={'loading...'}>
        <Script src="https://js.stripe.com/v3/" async>
          {() => console.log(window.Stripe) || null}
        </Script>
      </React.Suspense>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

<Video>

Props

• src: string
• anything else you can pass to a <video> tag

import React from 'react';
import { Video } from 'the-platform';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Ken Wheeler on a Scooter</h1>
      <React.Suspense maxDuration={300} fallback={'loading...'}>
        <Video
          src="https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1029780437437014016/pu/vid/360x640/QLNTqYaYtkx9AbeH.mp4?tag=5"
          preload="auto"
          autoPlay
        />
      </React.Suspense>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

<Audio>

Props

• src: string
• anything else you can pass to a <audio> tag

import React from 'react';
import { Audio } from 'the-platform';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Meavy Boy - Compassion</h1>
      {/* source: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Meavy_Boy/EP_71_to_20/Compassion */}
      <React.Suspense maxDuration={300} fallback={'loading...'}>
        <Audio src="https://file-dnzavydoqu.now.sh/" preload="auto" autoPlay />
      </React.Suspense>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

<Preload>

Preload a resource with <link rel="preload">. For more information check out MDN or the Google Developer Blog.

Props

• href: string
• as: string - resource type

import React from 'react';
import { Preload, Script } from 'the-platform';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Preload</h1>
      <React.Suspense maxDuration={300} fallback={'loading...'}>
        <Preload href="https://js.stripe.com/v3/" rel="preload" as="script" />
        <Script src="https://js.stripe.com/v3/" async />
      </React.Suspense>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

<Stylesheet>

Lazy load a stylesheet.

Props

• href: string

import React from 'react';
import { Stylesheet } from 'the-platform';

function App() {
  return (
    <div>
      <h1>Styles</h1>
      <React.Suspense maxDuration={300} fallback={'loading...'}>
        <Stylesheet href="style.css" />
      </React.Suspense>
    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

Authors

• Jared Palmer
• Jack Cross
• Nathan Force

Inspiration

• react-fns
• AOL.

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MIT License