@hello-pangea/dnd

Beautiful and accessible drag and drop for lists with React

Core characteristics

Beautiful and natural movement of items 💐
Accessible: powerful keyboard and screen reader support ♿️
Extremely performant 🚀
Clean and powerful api which is simple to get started with
Plays extremely well with standard browser interactions
Unopinionated styling
No creation of additional wrapper dom nodes - flexbox and focus management friendly!

Get started 👩‍🏫

Alex Reardon has created a free course on egghead.io 🥚 (using react-beautiful-dnd) to help you get started with @hello-pangea/dnd as quickly as possible.

Currently supported feature set ✅

Vertical lists ↕
Horizontal lists ↔
Movement between lists (▤ ↔ ▤)
Virtual list support 👾 - unlocking 10,000 items @ 60fps
Combining items
Mouse 🐭, keyboard 🎹♿️ and touch 👉📱 (mobile, tablet and so on) support
Multi drag support
Incredible screen reader support ♿️ - we provide an amazing experience for english screen readers out of the box 📦. We also provide complete customisation control and internationalisation support for those who need it 💖
Conditional dragging and conditional dropping
Multiple independent lists on the one page
Flexible item sizes - the draggable items can have different heights (vertical lists) or widths (horizontal lists)
Add and remove items during a drag
Compatible with semantic <table> reordering - table pattern
Auto scrolling - automatically scroll containers and the window as required during a drag (even with keyboard 🔥)
Custom drag handles - you can drag a whole item by just a part of it
Able to move the dragging item to another element while dragging (clone, portal) - Reparenting your <Draggable />
Create scripted drag and drop experiences 🎮
Allows extensions to support for any input type you like 🕹
🌲 Tree support through the @atlaskit/tree package
A <Droppable /> list can be a scroll container (without a scrollable parent) or be the child of a scroll container (that also does not have a scrollable parent)
Independent nested lists - a list can be a child of another list, but you cannot drag items from the parent list into a child list
Server side rendering (SSR) compatible - see resetServerContext()
Plays well with nested interactive elements by default

Motivation 🤔

@hello-pangea/dnd exists to create beautiful drag and drop for lists that anyone can use - even people who cannot see. For a good overview of the history and motivations of the project you can take a look at these external resources:

Not for everyone ✌️

There are a lot of libraries out there that allow for drag and drop interactions within React. Most notable of these is the amazing react-dnd. It does an incredible job at providing a great set of drag and drop primitives which work especially well with the wildly inconsistent html5 drag and drop feature. @hello-pangea/dnd is a higher level abstraction specifically built for lists (vertical, horizontal, movement between lists, nested lists and so on). Within that subset of functionality @hello-pangea/dnd offers a powerful, natural and beautiful drag and drop experience. However, it does not provide the breadth of functionality offered by react-dnd. One shortcoming is that grid layouts are not supported (yet). So @hello-pangea/dnd might not be for you depending on what your use case is.

Documentation 📖

About 👋

Installation
Examples and samples
Get started (This is using react-beautiful-dnd)
Design principles
Animations
Accessibility
Browser support

Sensors 🔉

The ways in which somebody can start and control a drag

Mouse dragging 🐭
Touch dragging 👉📱
Keyboard dragging 🎹♿️
Create your own sensor (allows for any input type as well as scripted experiences)

API 🏋️‍

<DragDropContext /> - Wraps the part of your application you want to have drag and drop enabled for
<Droppable /> - An area that can be dropped into. Contains <Draggable />s
<Draggable /> - What can be dragged around
resetServerContext() - Utility for server side rendering (SSR)

Guides 🗺

<DragDropContext /> responders - onDragStart, onDragUpdate, onDragEnd and onBeforeDragStart
Combining <Draggable />s
Common setup issues
Using innerRef
Setup problem detection and error recovery
Rules for draggableId and droppableIds
Browser focus retention
Customising or skipping the drop animation
Auto scrolling
Controlling the screen reader
Use the html5 doctype
TypeScript: type information
Dragging <svg>s
Avoiding image flickering
Non-visible preset styles
How we detect scroll containers
How we use dom events - Useful if you need to build on top of @hello-pangea/dnd
Adding <Draggable />s during a drag (11.x behaviour) - ⚠️ Advanced
Setting up Content Security Policy

Patterns 👷‍

Virtual lists 👾
Multi drag
Tables
Reparenting a <Draggable /> - Using our cloning API or your own portal

Support 👩‍⚕️

Read this in other languages 🌎

⚠️ These following translations are based on react-beautiful-dnd.

Creator ✍️

Alex Reardon @alexandereardon

Alex is no longer personally maintaning this project. The other wonderful maintainers are carrying this project forward.

Maintainers 🛠️

Gabriel Santerre @100terres
Reece Carolan @Xhale1
Many @Atlassian's have contributed to the original react-beautiful-dnd. Atlassian is no longer involved with this project.

Collaborators 🤝

Bogdan Chadkin @IAmTrySound

Thanks 🤗