@mshafiqyajid/react-color

A tiny, modern color picker for React. Drop-in replacement for react-color — without the 7 heavy dependencies, without the bloated 37 KB bundle, with first-class TypeScript.

Zero dependencies. ~11 KB. SSR-safe. Fully typed. React 17–19.

Why this exists

react-color (1.9M weekly downloads) was last published in June 2022 and ships with lodash, lodash-es, material-colors, reactcss, tinycolor2, @icons/material, and prop-types. This package replaces all of that with pure TypeScript math and one CSS file.

Install

npm install @mshafiqyajid/react-color

Peer dependency: react >= 17.

Quick start

import { HexColorPicker } from "@mshafiqyajid/react-color/styled";
import "@mshafiqyajid/react-color/styles.css";

export function MyPicker() {
  const [color, setColor] = useState("#6366f1");
  return <HexColorPicker value={color} onChange={setColor} />;
}

Picker components

All pickers accept value (controlled) or defaultValue (uncontrolled), onChange, showAlpha, showHexInput, and any standard <div> props.

HexColorPicker

<HexColorPicker
  value={hex}               // "#rrggbb" or "#rrggbbaa"
  onChange={(hex) => …}
  showAlpha                 // adds alpha slider, outputs "#rrggbbaa"
/>

RgbaColorPicker

<RgbaColorPicker
  value={{ r: 99, g: 102, b: 241, a: 1 }}
  onChange={({ r, g, b, a }) => …}
/>

HslaColorPicker

<HslaColorPicker
  value={{ h: 239, s: 84, l: 67, a: 1 }}
  onChange={({ h, s, l, a }) => …}
/>

Options (all pickers)

Headless API

Build your own picker UI using the hook and primitives.

import {
  useColorPicker,
  SaturationField,
  HueSlider,
  AlphaSlider,
  HexInput,
} from "@mshafiqyajid/react-color";

function MyPicker({ value, onChange }) {
  const picker = useColorPicker({ value, onChange });

  return (
    <div>
      <SaturationField picker={picker} className="my-sat" />
      <HueSlider picker={picker} className="my-hue" />
      <AlphaSlider picker={picker} hsva={picker.hsva} className="my-alpha" />
      <HexInput hsva={picker.hsva} onChange={picker.setHsva} />
    </div>
  );
}

The hook returns:

• hsva — current color in HSVA space
• setHsva(hsva) — programmatically set
• saturationFieldProps — spread onto your 2D saturation field div
• hueSliderProps — spread onto your hue strip div
• alphaSliderProps — spread onto your alpha strip div
• sbPosition — { left, top } as % for the saturation handle
• huePosition — hue handle position as %
• alphaPosition — alpha handle position as %

Color utilities

All pure functions, no side effects, no DOM.

import {
  parseHex,        // "#ff0000" → { r, g, b, a }
  rgbaToHex,       // { r, g, b, a } → "#ff0000"
  hsvaToHex,       // { h, s, v, a } → "#ff0000"
  hsvaToRgba,      // { h, s, v, a } → { r, g, b, a }
  hsvaToHsla,      // { h, s, v, a } → { h, s, l, a }
  toHsva,          // any supported format → HsvaColor
  hsvToRgb,
  rgbToHsv,
  hslToHsv,
  hsvToHsl,
} from "@mshafiqyajid/react-color";

CSS variables

Override on .rcp-picker or a wrapper class:

Dark mode applies automatically under prefers-color-scheme: dark. Force it with data-rcp-theme="dark" on any ancestor.

Browser support

Evergreen browsers. SSR-safe (no DOM access at import time). Uses setPointerCapture for smooth drag across the saturation field (universally supported).

License

MIT © Shafiq Yajid