ykankaya / react-archer

🏹 Draw arrows between DOM elements in React 🖋

react-archer

🏹 Draw arrows between DOM elements in React 🖋

Installation

npm install react-archer --save or yarn add react-archer

Example

import { ArcherContainer, ArcherElement } from 'react-archer';

const rootStyle = { display: 'flex', justifyContent: 'center' };
const rowStyle = { margin: '200px 0', display: 'flex', justifyContent: 'space-between', }
const boxStyle = { padding: '10px', border: '1px solid black', };

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div>

      <ArcherContainer strokeColor='red' >
        <div style={rootStyle}>
          <ArcherElement
            id="root"
            relations={[{
              from: { anchor: 'bottom' },
              to: { anchor: 'top', id: 'element2' }
            }]}
          >
            <div style={boxStyle}>Root</div>
          </ArcherElement>
        </div>

        <div style={rowStyle}>
          <ArcherElement
            id="element2"
            relations={[{
              from: { anchor: 'right'},
              to: { anchor: 'left', id: 'element3' }
            }]}
          >
            <div style={boxStyle}>Element 2</div>
          </ArcherElement>

          <ArcherElement id="element3">
            <div style={boxStyle}>Element 3</div>
          </ArcherElement>

          <ArcherElement
            id="element4"
            relations={[{
              from: { anchor: 'left'},
              to: { anchor: 'right', id: 'root' }
            }]}
          >
            <div style={boxStyle}>Element 4</div>
          </ArcherElement>
        </div>
      </ArcherContainer>

    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

API

ArcherContainer

strokeColor: PropTypes.string

A color string '#ff0000'

strokeWidth: PropTypes.number

A size in px

arrowLength: PropTypes.number

A size in px

arrowThickness: PropTypes.number

A size in px

style: PropTypes.object

className: PropTypes.string

children: PropTypes.node

ArcherElement

id: PropTypes.string

style: PropTypes.object

className: PropTypes.string

relations: PropTypes.arrayOf(relation)

The relation object has the following shape:

{
  from: {
    anchor: PropTypes.oneOf([ 'top', 'bottom', 'left', 'right' ])
  },
  to: {
    anchor: PropTypes.oneOf([ 'top', 'bottom', 'left', 'right' ])
    id: PropTypes.string
  }
}

TODO

• Automatic anchoring option
• Options to customize the path shape more (straight line, right angle line, smoothed right angle path)
• Individual customization of arrows (change color of a single arrow for example)
• Add a Code Sandbox
• Add flow