React Scrollama

React Scrollama is a lightweight interface for scrollytelling that uses IntersectionObserver in favor of scroll events. It is adapted from Russel Goldenbeg's Scrollama.

As seen in:

• Sex Diversity Among Graduate Students Is Stagnating (Columbia Daily Spectator)
• The scramble to secure America’s voting machines (POLITICO)
• Lower-income undergraduate students are paying more and more to attend Columbia; wealthier students are paying less and less, federal data shows (Columbia Daily Spectator)

Demo

Take a look at the demo, presented at ReactNYC.

Install

React Scrollama can be installed as an npm package:

$ npm install react-scrollama

Note: As of version 2.2.0, the IntersectionObserver polyfill has been removed from the build. You must include it yourself for cross-browser support. Check here to see if you need to include the polyfill.

Usage

A no-frills example:

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { Scrollama, Step } from 'react-scrollama';

const ScrollamaDemo = () => {
  const [currentStepIndex, setCurrentStepIndex] = useState(null);

  // This callback fires when a Step hits the offset threshold. It receives the
  // data prop of the step, which in this demo stores the index of the step.
  const onStepEnter = ({ data }) => {
    setCurrentStepIndex(data);
  };

  return (
    <div style={{ margin: '50vh 0', border: '2px dashed skyblue' }}>
      <div style={{ position: 'sticky', top: 0, border: '1px solid orchid' }}>
        I'm sticky. The current triggered step index is: {currentStepIndex}
      </div>
      <Scrollama onStepEnter={onStepEnter} debug>
        {[1, 2, 3, 4].map((_, stepIndex) => (
          <Step data={stepIndex} key={stepIndex}>
            <div
              style={{
                margin: '50vh 0',
                border: '1px solid gray',
                opacity: currentStepIndex === stepIndex ? 1 : 0.2,
              }}
            >
              I'm a Scrollama Step of index {stepIndex}
            </div>
          </Step>
        ))}
      </Scrollama>
    </div>
  );
};

export default ScrollamaDemo;

API

Scrollama

A Scrollama component should wrap a set of steps. These are the props you can set on the Scrollama component itself:

The onStepEnter and onStepExit callbacks receive one argument, an object, with the following properties:

{
  element, // The DOM node of the step that was triggered
  data, // The data supplied to the step
  direction, // 'up' or 'down'
}

The onStepProgress callback receives one argument, an object, with the following properties:

{
  element, // The DOM node of the step that was triggered
  data, // The data supplied to the step
  progress, // The percent of completion of the step (0 to 1)
}

Currently, there is no way to throttle/customize React Scrollama's resize listener 😢. We're working on this in #44.

Step

A Step element can contain one child, which must be a DOM element. To use a React component as the child node, it must be wrapped with a DOM element like <div> (see #19).

These are the props you can set on the Step component:

You will also probably want to set a key prop on each Step if you're transforming an array of data into a list of Step elements (see Lists and Keys).

Features roadmap

• Being able to use pixels instead of percent for offset value so stuff on mobile doesn't jump around on scroll direction change
• Fire previous step triggers if they were jumped

Contributors

• jsonkao
• NicholasLYang
• jonesbp
• kennethormandy
• cedricdelpoux
• davidnmora

License

MIT