endless

A simple, fast and versatile infinite scroll component for React.

Supports:

• Removal and recycling of DOM elements
• Bi-directional scrolling
• Starting at the top, bottom or somewhere in the middle
• Unknown total number or heights of elements
• Elements that are different heights
• Elements laid out on a grid

Unlike other infinite scroll implementations, endless is intentionally simple: it does not decide which items to show or control the process of fetching them.

Instead, it is a simple container for items you put in it, with two important additions:

• It gives you a callback, onScroll, which describes which items are currently in view. Based on this, you can decide to load more items and re-render. Despite the name, this callback is fired for any event that causes
• When and Endless element is re-rendered, it adjusts the scroll position so that any items that have not changed appear in the same place. It adds empty space above and below the items to minimize the scrollbars jumping.

Installation

The best way is to use bower or npm

bower install endless

npm install endless-react

Alternately, you may copy and include the file endless.js to your project. If you do this, make sure you check for updates occasionally.

Usage

In your component’s render function, use Endless as any other React Component. The list items go into the items property, and you can attach callbacks on events like scroll.

render: function () {
  var items = [<Item key='1'/>, <Item key='2'/>];
  return <Endless items={items} onScroll={this.onScroll}/>;
},
onScroll: function (key, numItemsBefore, numItemsAfter) {
	/* Do the thing. */
}

API

The following properties are quite useful:

items

An array of React elements or JSONML descriptions of react elements.

onScroll

A function to be called whenever the list of visible items changes.

atTop

A boolean, which should be true to indicate that there are no more items above the first one in items.

atBottom

A boolean, which should be true to indicate that there are no more items below the last one in items.

onMount

A function to be called when Endless is first rendered. Use this to set the initial scroll position.

onUnmount

A function to be called when Endless is removed from the DOM.

margin

The number of pixels of extra scroll space to add above or below, when the actual top or bottom of the list has not been reached yet. Default