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react-event-timeline

React component to generate a responsive vertical event timeline

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Storybook demos here: https://rcdexta.github.io/react-event-timeline

CodeSandbox version to play with examples (in typescript):

Note: CodeSandbox version has predefined styles and icons loaded in index.html for better presentation!

Features

Is lightweight
Responsive and extensible
Configurable and customizable

Getting started

To install as npm dependency

npm install --save react-event-timeline

or if you use yarn

yarn add react-event-timeline

Usage

The following snippet generates the timeline you see in the screenshot:

import {Timeline, TimelineEvent} from 'react-event-timeline'

ReactDOM.render(
    <Timeline>
            <TimelineEvent title="John Doe sent a SMS"
                           createdAt="2016-09-12 10:06 PM"
                           icon={<i className="material-icons md-18">textsms</i>}
            >
                I received the payment for $543. Should be shipping the item within a couple of hours.
            </TimelineEvent>
            <TimelineEvent
                title="You sent an email to John Doe"
                createdAt="2016-09-11 09:06 AM"
                icon={<i className="material-icons md-18">email</i>}
            >
                Like we talked, you said that you would share the shipment details? This is an urgent order and so I
                    am losing patience. Can you expedite the process and pls do share the details asap. Consider this a
                    gentle reminder if you are on track already!
            </TimelineEvent>
    </Timeline>,
      document.getElementById('container')
);

Please refer storybook to check code for all the examples in the storybook demo.

API Documentation

Timeline

This is the wrapper component that creates the infinite vertical timeline

Name	Type	Description
className	string	The css class name of timeline container
style	object	Override inline styles of timeline container
orientation	string	Display the timeline on `right` or `left`. Default: `left`
lineColor	string	CSS color code to override the line color
lineStyle	string	Override the appearance of line with custom css styling

TimelineEvent

Each event in the timeline will be represented by the TimelineEvent component. There can be multiple repeating instances of this component inside Timeline wrapper

Name	Type	Description
title	node	The title of the event. Can be string or any DOM element node(s)
createdAt	node	The time at which the event occurred. Can be datetime string or any DOM element node(s)
subtitle	node	If you prefer having the title at the top and some caption below, omit createdAt and specify title and subtitle
icon	node	The icon to show as event lable. Can be a SVG or font icon
iconStyle	object	Custom CSS styling for the icon
bubbleStyle	object	Custom CSS styling for the bubble containing the icon
buttons	node	Action buttons to display to the right of the event content
contentStyle	node	Override content style
container	string	Optional value `card` will render event as a Card
style	object	Override style for the entire event container. Can be used to modify card appearance if container is selected as `card`
titleStyle	object	Override style for the title content
subtitleStyle	object	Override style for the subtitle content
cardHeaderStyle	object	Override style for the card header if container is `card`
collapsible	boolean	Make the timeline event collapse body content
showContent	boolean	if `collapsible` is true, should content be shown by default. `false` is default value

TimelineBlip

Use this component if your event footprint is too small and can be described in a single line

Name	Type	Description
title	node	The title of the event. Can be string or any DOM element node(s)
icon	node	The icon to show as event label. Can be a SVG or font icon
iconColor	string	CSS color code for icon
iconStyle	object	Custom CSS styling for the icon
style	object	Override style for the entire event container

Refer to Condensed Timeline in Storybook for examples of using this component.

Development

This project recommends using react-storybook as a UI component development environment. Use the following scripts for your development workflow:

npm run storybook: Start developing by using storybook
npm run lint : Lint all js files
npm run lintfix : fix linting errors of all js files
npm run build: transpile all ES6 component files into ES5(commonjs) and put it in dist directory
npm run docs: create static build of storybook in docs directory that can be used for github pages

The storybook artefacts can be found in stories folder. Run npm run storybook and you should see your code changes hot reloaded on the browser

Also use semantic-release to automate release to npm. Use npm run commit to commit your changes and raise a PR.

Acknowledgements

This project is graciously supported by IDE tools offered by JetBrains for development.

License

MIT