Nowadays browsers support element resize handling natively using ResizeObservers. The library uses these observers to help you handle element resizes in React.

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🐼 Written in TypeScript

🦁 Supports Function and Class Components

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No window.resize listeners! No timeouts! No 👑 viruses! :)

TypeScript-lovers notice: starting from v6.0.0 you may safely remove @types/react-resize-detector from you deps list.

Installation#

npm i react-resize-detector
// OR
yarn add react-resize-detector

and

import ResizeObserver from 'react-resize-detector';

Examples#

Starting from v6.0.0 there are 3 recommended ways to work with resize-detector library:

1. React hook (new in v6.0.0)#

import { useResizeDetector } from 'react-resize-detector';

const CustomComponent = () => {
  const { width, height, ref } = useResizeDetector();
  return <div ref={ref}>{`${width}x${height}`}</div>;
};

With props

import { useResizeDetector } from 'react-resize-detector';

const CustomComponent = () => {
  const onResize = useCallback(() => {
    // on resize logic
  }, []);

  const { width, height, ref } = useResizeDetector({
    handleHeight: false,
    refreshMode: 'debounce',
    refreshRate: 1000,
    onResize
  });

  return <div ref={ref}>{`${width}x${height}`}</div>;
};

With custom ref

import { useResizeDetector } from 'react-resize-detector';

const CustomComponent = () => {
  const targetRef = useRef();
  const { width, height } = useResizeDetector({ targetRef });
  return <div ref={targetRef}>{`${width}x${height}`}</div>;
};

2. HOC pattern#

import { withResizeDetector } from 'react-resize-detector';

const CustomComponent = ({ width, height }) => <div>{`${width}x${height}`}</div>;

export default withResizeDetector(CustomComponent);

3. Child Function Pattern#

import ReactResizeDetector from 'react-resize-detector';

// ...

<ReactResizeDetector handleWidth handleHeight>
  {({ width, height }) => <div>{`${width}x${height}`}</div>}
</ReactResizeDetector>;

Full example (Class Component)

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { withResizeDetector } from 'react-resize-detector';

const containerStyles = {
  height: '100vh',
  display: 'flex',
  alignItems: 'center',
  justifyContent: 'center'
};

class AdaptiveComponent extends Component {
  state = {
    color: 'red'
  };

  componentDidUpdate(prevProps) {
    const { width } = this.props;

    if (width !== prevProps.width) {
      this.setState({
        color: width > 500 ? 'coral' : 'aqua'
      });
    }
  }

  render() {
    const { width, height } = this.props;
    const { color } = this.state;
    return <div style={{ backgroundColor: color, ...containerStyles }}>{`${width}x${height}`}</div>;
  }
}

const AdaptiveWithDetector = withResizeDetector(AdaptiveComponent);

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <p>The rectangle changes color based on its width</p>
      <AdaptiveWithDetector />
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

Full example (Functional Component)

import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
import { withResizeDetector } from 'react-resize-detector';

const containerStyles = {
  height: '100vh',
  display: 'flex',
  alignItems: 'center',
  justifyContent: 'center'
};

const AdaptiveComponent = ({ width, height }) => {
  const [color, setColor] = useState('red');

  useEffect(() => {
    setColor(width > 500 ? 'coral' : 'aqua');
  }, [width]);

  return <div style={{ backgroundColor: color, ...containerStyles }}>{`${width}x${height}`}</div>;
};

const AdaptiveWithDetector = withResizeDetector(AdaptiveComponent);

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div>
      <p>The rectangle changes color based on its width</p>
      <AdaptiveWithDetector />
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

We still support other ways to work with this library, but in the future consider using the ones described above. Please let me know if the examples above don't fit your needs.

Performance optimization#

This library uses the native ResizeObserver API.

DOM nodes get attached to ResizeObserver.observe every time the component mounts and every time any property gets changed.

It means you should try to avoid passing anonymous functions to ResizeDetector, because they will trigger the whole initialization process every time the component rerenders. Use useCallback whenever it's possible.

// WRONG - anonymous function
const { ref, width, height } = useResizeDetector({
  onResize: () => {
    // on resize logic
  }
});

// CORRECT - `useCallback` approach
const onResize = useCallback(() => {
  // on resize logic
}, []);

const { ref, width, height } = useResizeDetector({ onResize });

Refs#

The below explanation doesn't apply to useResizeDetector

The library is trying to be smart and does not add any extra DOM elements to not break your layouts. That's why we use findDOMNode method to find and attach listeners to the existing DOM elements. Unfortunately, this method has been deprecated and throws a warning in StrictMode.

For those who want to avoid this warning, we are introducing an additional property - targetRef. You have to set this prop as a ref of your target DOM element and the library will use this reference instead of searching the DOM element with help of findDOMNode

HOC pattern example

import { withResizeDetector } from 'react-resize-detector';

const CustomComponent = ({ width, height, targetRef }) => <div ref={targetRef}>{`${width}x${height}`}</div>;

export default withResizeDetector(CustomComponent);

Child Function Pattern example

import ReactResizeDetector from 'react-resize-detector';

// ...

<ReactResizeDetector handleWidth handleHeight>
  {({ width, height, targetRef }) => <div ref={targetRef}>{`${width}x${height}`}</div>}
</ReactResizeDetector>;

API#

Prop	Type	Description	Default
onResize	Func	Function that will be invoked with `width` and `height` arguments	`undefined`
handleWidth	Bool	Trigger `onResize` on width change	`true`
handleHeight	Bool	Trigger `onResize` on height change	`true`
skipOnMount	Bool	Do not trigger onResize when a component mounts	`false`
refreshMode	String	Possible values: `throttle` and `debounce` See lodash docs for more information. `undefined` - callback will be fired for every frame	`undefined`
refreshRate	Number	Use this in conjunction with `refreshMode`. Important! It's a numeric prop so set it accordingly, e.g. `refreshRate={500}`	`1000`
refreshOptions	Object	Use this in conjunction with `refreshMode`. An object in shape of `{ leading: bool, trailing: bool }`. Please refer to lodash's docs for more info	`undefined`
observerOptions	Object	These options will be used as a second parameter of `resizeObserver.observe` method.	`undefined`
targetRef	Ref	Use this prop to pass a reference to the element you want to attach resize handlers to. It must be an instance of `React.useRef` or `React.createRef` functions	`undefined`

Testing with Enzyme and Jest#

Thanks to @Primajin for posting this snippet

const { ResizeObserver } = window;

beforeEach(() => {
  delete window.ResizeObserver;
  window.ResizeObserver = jest.fn().mockImplementation(() => ({
    observe: jest.fn(),
    unobserve: jest.fn(),
    disconnect: jest.fn()
  }));

  wrapper = mount(<MyComponent />);
});

afterEach(() => {
  window.ResizeObserver = ResizeObserver;
  jest.restoreAllMocks();
});

it('should do my test', () => {
  // [...]
});

License#

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