React Spaces

An easy to understand and nestable layout system, React Spaces allow you to divide a page or container into anchored, scrollable and resizable spaces enabling you to build desktop/mobile type user interfaces in the browser.

Rather than a library of visual UI components, Spaces are intended to be the reusable foundational blocks for laying out a UI which responds neatly to view port resizes leaving you to fill them with whatever components you want.

• No styling to achieve simple or complex layouts.
• Spaces know how to behave in relation to each other and resize accordingly.
• Spaces don't have any visual element to them (even padding or margins). You can fill them with whatever you want.

Version 0.2.0 release - read release notes here.

View full documentation here.

Top level spaces

Used at the top level of all other spaces.

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This space will take over the full viewport of the browser window. Resizing the browser window will automatically adjust the size of this space and all the nested spaces.

\<Fixed />

This space can be given a height and optionally a width (by default it will size to 100% of it's container). All nested spaces will be contained within this fixed size space.

Anchored spaces

These can be used within the top-level spaces \<ViewPort /> and \<Fixed /> or nested within other spaces.

\<Left /> and \<Right />

A space anchored to the left or right of the parent container/space. A size can be specified in pixels or as a percentage to determine its width.

\<Top /> and \<Bottom />

A space anchored to the top or bottom of the parent container/space. A size can be specified in pixels or as a percentage to determine its height.

There are resizable versions of these components called \<LeftResizable />, \<RightResizable />, \<TopResizable /> and \<BottomResizable /> which allow the spaces to be resized from the outer edge by dragging with the mouse.

Other

\<Fill />

A space which consumes any available area left in the parent container/space taking into account any anchored spaces on every side.

\<Positioned />

A space which can be absolutely placed within a parent space either by top, left, width and height or by top, left, right and bottom.

\<Layer />

Layers allow you to create layers within a parent space, for example:

<ViewPort>
    <Layer zIndex="{0}"> <LeftResizable size="20%" /> // floating sidebar </Layer>
    <Layer zIndex="{1}">
        <Fill />
    </Layer>
</ViewPort>

\<Centered />

Centres the content of a space horizontally and vertically.

\<CenteredVertically />

Centres the content of a space vertically.

Getting started

To get started with React Spaces you need:

npm install react-spaces --save

import * as Spaces from "react-spaces";

View full documentation here.

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