useDrag.md

useDrag

Accepts an HTML Element ref then makes it draggable. Returns a boolean reporting whether the element in being dragged or not.

Why? 💡

• takes care of adding the drag-related events listeners to the defined target
• takes care of cleaning the listener when the component will unmount
• allow to easily implement draggable business logic

Basic Usage:

Provide a DOM ref as first parameter to useDrag

import { useRef } from 'react';
import { useDrag } from 'beautiful-react-hooks'; 

const MyComponent = () => {
  const ref = useRef();
  const isDragged = useDrag(ref);

  return (
    <DisplayDemo>
      <div ref={ref} style={{padding: '20px 0', background: isDragged ? '#BE496E' : '#1D6C8B'}}>
        Draggable item...
        {isDragged && <span>is being dragged</span>}
      </div>
    </DisplayDemo>
  );
};

<MyComponent />

Drag image:

import { useRef } from 'react';
import { useDrag } from 'beautiful-react-hooks'; 

const MyComponent = () => {
  const ref = useRef();
  const isDragged = useDrag(ref, {
    dragImage: 'https://beautifulinteractions.com/img/logo-colorful.svg',
    dragImageXOffset: 5,
    dragImageYOffset: 5,
  });

  return (
    <DisplayDemo>
      <div ref={ref} style={{padding: '20px 0', background: isDragged ? '#BE496E' : '#1D6C8B'}}>
        Draggable item...
        {isDragged && <span>is being dragged</span>}
      </div>
    </DisplayDemo>
  );
};

<MyComponent />

Data transfer:

import { useRef } from 'react';
import { useDrag } from 'beautiful-react-hooks'; 

const MyComponent = () => {
  const ref = useRef();
  const isDragged = useDrag(ref, {
    transfer: { id: 'item-id', foo: 'bar' },
    transferFormat: 'text/plain',
  });

  return (
    <DisplayDemo>
      <div ref={ref} style={{padding: '20px 0', background: isDragged ? '#BE496E' : '#1D6C8B'}}>
        Draggable item...
        {isDragged && <span>is being dragged</span>}
      </div>
    </DisplayDemo>
  );
};

<MyComponent />

Mastering the hook

✅ When to use

• When in need of implementing basic drag-related business logic