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
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',
  sourceAnchor: 'top' | 'bottom' | 'left' | 'right',
  label: React.Node,
  style: Style,
}

The Style type has the following shape:

{
  strokeColor: string,
  strokeWidth: number,
  arrowLength: number,
  arrowThickness: number
}

TODO

• Automatic anchoring option
• Options to customize the path shape more (straight line, right angle line, smoothed right angle path)
• Add a Code Sandbox