react-archer-install-temp

react-archer

🏹 Draw arrows between DOM elements in React 🖋

Installation

npm install react-archer --save or yarn add react-archer

Example

Try it out!

import { ArcherContainer, ArcherElement } from 'react-archer';

const rootStyle = { display: 'flex', justifyContent: 'center' };
const rowStyle = { margin: '200px 0', display: 'flex', justifyContent: 'space-between', }
const boxStyle = { padding: '10px', border: '1px solid black', };

const App = () => {
  return (
    <div>

      <ArcherContainer strokeColor='red' >
        <div style={rootStyle}>
          <ArcherElement
            id="root"
            relations={[{
              targetId: 'element2',
              targetAnchor: 'top',
              sourceAnchor: 'bottom',
            }]}
          >
            <div style={boxStyle}>Root</div>
          </ArcherElement>
        </div>

        <div style={rowStyle}>
          <ArcherElement
            id="element2"
            relations={[{
              targetId: 'element3',
              targetAnchor: 'left',
              sourceAnchor: 'right',
              style: { strokeColor: 'blue', strokeWidth: 1 },
              label: <div style={{ marginTop: '-20px' }}>Arrow 2</div>,
            }]}
          >
            <div style={boxStyle}>Element 2</div>
          </ArcherElement>

          <ArcherElement id="element3">
            <div style={boxStyle}>Element 3</div>
          </ArcherElement>

          <ArcherElement
            id="element4"
            relations={[{
              targetId: 'root',
              targetAnchor: 'right',
              sourceAnchor: 'left',
              label: 'Arrow 3',
            }]}
          >
            <div style={boxStyle}>Element 4</div>
          </ArcherElement>
        </div>
      </ArcherContainer>

    </div>
  );
}

export default App;

API

ArcherContainer

Name	Type	Description
strokeColor	string	A color string '#ff0000'
strokeWidth	number	A size in px
strokeDasharray	string	Adds dashes to the stroke. It has to be a string representing an array of sizes. See some SVG strokes documentation.
noCurves	boolean	Set this to true if you want angles instead of curves
offset	number	Optional number for space between element and start/end of stroke
arrowLength	number	A size in px
arrowThickness	number	A size in px
children	React.Node

ArcherElement

Name	Type	Description
id	string	The id that will identify the Archer Element. Should only contain alphanumeric characters and standard characters that you can find in HTML ids.
children	React.Node
relations	Array<Relation>

The Relation type has the following shape:

{
  targetId: string,
  targetAnchor: 'top' | 'bottom' | 'left' | 'right' | 'middle',
  sourceAnchor: 'top' | 'bottom' | 'left' | 'right' | 'middle',
  label: React.Node,
  style: Style,
}

Please note that the middle anchor does not look very good: the curve won't look nice and the arrow marker will have a little offset. The issue won't be solved before a long time.

The Style type has the following shape:

{
  strokeColor: string,
  strokeWidth: number,
  strokeDasharray: number,
  arrowLength: number,
  arrowThickness: number,
  noCurves: boolean,
}

TODO

• Automatic anchoring option
• Add a Code Sandbox