react-multistep

Responsive React multistep form component

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Instructions

To use this module in your app run:

npm install react-multistep

next, import it inside of your app:

import MultiStep from 'react-multistep'

and then, in your application, you add your custom components/forms this way:

<MultiStep activeStep={0} prevButton={prevButton} nextButton={nextButton}>
    <StepOne title='Step 1'/>
    <StepTwo title='Step 2'/>
</MultiStep>

MultiStep component accepts following props (all optional, except Steps array):

PROPERTY	DESCRIPTION	TYPE	DEFAULT	isRequired
showNavigation	controls if the navigation buttons are visible	boolean	true	false
showTitles	control either the steps title are visible or not	boolean	true	false
prevButton	configure the prev navigation button	NavButton	null	false
nextButton	configure the next the navigation button	NavButton	null	false
stepCustomStyle	control style of step	CSSProperties	null	false
direction	control the steps nav direction	column	row	false
activeStep	it takes a number representing representing starting step	number	0	false
steps	it takes an array of objects representing individual steps	Step	null	false

🚀 NEW! you can also use style props for the navigation buttons and change how they look with two props 'prevButton' & 'nextButton':

PROPERTY	DESCRIPTION	TYPE	DEFAULT	isRequired
title	The display string value of the navigation button	string	Prev / Next	false
style	The css style of the navigation button	CSSProperties	null	false

There are two ways to configure Multistep component, preferred way is with Inlined child components. Using this approach, enables the new feature that allows controlling the navigation based on the current step's form validation:

    <MultiStep  title: 'Order Workflow'} 
                activeStep={2} 
                prevButton={{title: 'Back','style:{ background: 'red' }}
                nextButton={{title: 'Forward','style:{ background: 'green' }}
    >
    <StepOne title='StepOne'/>
    <StepTwo title='StepTwo'/>
    <StepThree title='StepThree'/>
    <StepFour title='StepFour'/>
</MultiStep>

The old way via Steps, a prop in the form of an array of components, is still supported for backwards compatibility. But, (⚠️) this way has being deprecated, and it will be removed in the future:

const steps = [
              {title: 'StepOne', component: <StepOne/>},
              {title: 'StepTwo', component: <StepTwo/>},
              {title: 'StepThree', component: <StepThree/>},
              {title: 'StepFour', component: <StepFour/>}
            ];
...       
...

<MultiStep activeStep={1} showNavigation={true} steps={steps}/>

When configured this way, each component (Step) of the array can have following two properties:

PROPERTY	DESCRIPTION	TYPE	DEFAULT	isRequired
component	the step representing component	JSX.Element	null	true
title	the step title, present above the steps nav	text	step index	false

🚀 NEW! Feature: Controlling navigation to the next step with form validation

To enable this feature, when the child form component needs to control 'Next' navigational button, based on it's local validation, MultiStep dynamically adds a new prop function to child components that should be used to signal validation status. MultiStep will disable /enable Next button accordingly. This function has follwing signature:

signalParent(valid: boolean)

By default the state is false and child components invokes it based on current outcome of the validation. In the example app, a simple checkbox is used to simulate valid/not valid.

This can be seen in the example app, but here are the relevant parts, required inside of the form child component:

Instructions for local development

If you would like to explore further, contribute a PR or just try the included code example:

Start by cloning the repo locally:

git clone https://github.com/srdjan/react-multistep.git

then:

cd react-multistep            // (1) navigate to the project folder
npm install                   // (2) install dependencies
npm run build                 // (3) build the component

On a successful build, try the example app:

cd ../example                 // (1) navigate to the example folder
npm install                   // (2) install dependencies
npm run build                 // (3) build the example
npm start                     // (4) start the local server

Now, you can open the example in your favorite browser...