React Drive-In

A wicked awesome replacement for BigVideo.js that is lighter with fewer dependencies. It does not use jQuery, video.js, or any other large libraries. Only 5k minified and gzipped. This React component is a wrapper over the core Drive-In lib.

Demo and some example functionality here: github.io

Created by Ronik Design.

Install

So easy. React is the only required peer dependency: React.

• Using NPM

  $ npm install --save-dev react-drive-in

• Download the latest release

Usage

• The easiest example

  const React = require("react");
  const ReactDOM = require("react-dom");
  const ReactDriveIn = require("react-drive-in");

  ReactDOM.render(
    <ReactDriveIn
      show="http://raw.githubusercontent.com/ronik-design/react-drive-in/master/example/glacier.mp4"
      poster="http://raw.githubusercontent.com/ronik-design/react-drive-in/master/example/glacier.jpg"
    />,
    $mountNode
  );

• More complex

  const React = require("react");
  const ReactDOM = require("react-dom");
  const ReactDriveIn = require("react-drive-in");

  const PLAYLIST = [
    [
      "https://github.com/ronik-design/react-drive-in/blob/master/example/pelo.mp4?raw=true",
      "https://github.com/ronik-design/react-drive-in/blob/master/example/pelo.ogv?raw=true",
      "https://github.com/ronik-design/react-drive-in/blob/master/example/pelo.jpg?raw=true"
    ],
    [
      "https://github.com/ronik-design/react-drive-in/blob/master/example/kaledo.mp4?raw=true",
      "https://github.com/ronik-design/react-drive-in/blob/master/example/kaledo.ogv?raw=true",
      "https://github.com/ronik-design/react-drive-in/blob/master/example/kaledo.jpg?raw=true"
    ],
    [
      "http://raw.githubusercontent.com/ronik-design/react-drive-in/master/example/glacier.mp4",
      "http://raw.githubusercontent.com/ronik-design/react-drive-in/master/example/glacier.ogv",
      "http://raw.githubusercontent.com/ronik-design/react-drive-in/master/example/glacier.jpg"
    ]
  ];

  const onPlaying = function(itemNum) {};
  const onPause = function() {};

  ReactDOM.render(
    <ReactDriveIn
      showPlaylist={playlist}
      onPlaying={onPlaying}
      onPause={onPause}
      loop
      mute
    />,
    $mountNode
  );

• Sample bundling script for the browser using rollup.js:

import babel from "rollup-plugin-babel";
import npm from "rollup-plugin-npm";
import commonjs from "rollup-plugin-commonjs";
import replace from "rollup-plugin-replace";

export default {
  entry: "lib/main.jsx",
  plugins: [
    replace({ "process.env.NODE_ENV": JSON.stringify("production") }),
    npm({ jsnext: true, main: true }),
    commonjs(),
    babel()
  ],
  dest: "dist/bundle.js",
  moduleName: "MyBundle",
  format: "iife"
};

What to show

The show and showPlaylist properties have many options. See example/index.html for an fairly complex set up.

• show is for SINGLE ITEMS. You can provide either a string, or a fallback array (e.g., [ "video.mp4", "video.ogv", "video.jpg" ]).
• showPlaylist is for MULTIPLE ITEMS. You can provide either an array or strings (e.g., [ "video1.mp4", "video2.mp4" ]) or an array of fallback arrays (e.g., [ [ "video1.mp4", "video1.ogv" ], [ "video2.mp4", "video2.ogv" ])

Details

The HTML structure of this element looks like:

  <div id="drive-in-wrap">
    <div class="drive-in-media">
      <video> OR <img>
    </div>
  </div>

The included CSS sets up some required styles for it to function correctly.

The component falls back to using an image on touch devices, since many will not play video inline. Thus, you might want to specify fallback images either through the poster property or in the fallback arrays.

Formats

The component currently understands and supports, mp4, ogv, webm, jpg, gif, png.

Component API

<Video> component:

Property	Type	Default	Required	Description
show	String,Array	none	no	The video or video fallback array to show.
showPlaylist	Array	none	no	An array of video URL strings, or of video fallback arrays.
play	Number	none	no	Similar to show but used to play a video at a given index in the showPlaylist array.
paused	Boolean	false	no	Set the playlist to a paused state on initial load.
poster	String	none	no	A fallback image to use, when all else fails.
mute	Boolean	true	no	Should the videos be played muted?
loop	Boolean	true	no	Should videos / playlists loop or begin again when finished?
loopPlaylistItems	Boolean	false	no	Individual playlist videos will loop, rather than the whole list itself.
slideshow	Boolean	false	no	Force the component to display fallback images / poster rather than videos.
onPlaying	Function	null	no	Register a callback for when the video / slideshow starts playing.
onPause	Function	null	no	Register a callback for when the video / slideshow is paused.
onTime	Function	null	no	Emits regular time-tracking events from Drive-In lib with current media item play position.
onTimeFrequency	Number	500	no	Frequency at which to emit time-tracking events.
onCanPlay	Function	null	no	Callback for when a loaded media item can play.
playbackRate	Number	1.0	no	Adjust the playback rate of videos. Per the HTML5 video method.
isTouch	Function	null	no	Provide a custom function for touch detection

Developing

You can clone this repo and then:

$ npm install
$ npm run develop

This will install all dev dependencies, let you watch sources and run a dev server.

License

See the License file.

Credit

• The repo contains a clip from this video by YouTube user lundbekegholm released under a Creative Commons license.
• BigVideo.js was the inspiration.
• react-video provided a great project scaffold for a React component.