react-insta-stories

A React component for Instagram like stories

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What's new in v2? 🚀

• Render your own components/JSX in stories
• Create multiple instances to recreate stories by multiple users easily, jump to stories using props
• Prop based control, event callbacks
• Custom JSX gives control to pause/play story
• (for devs) TypeScript 🎉
• (for devs) Updated for easier feature additions, hooks

What's breaking in v2? 🚨

• Ref based APIs are no more supported, replace them with new prop based controls.
• seeMore property should now be a React component or a function.

Install

npm install --save react-insta-stories

Demo

The component responds to actions like tap on right side for next story, on left for previous and tap and hold for pause. Custom time duration for each story can be provided. See it in action here: https://mohitk05.github.io/react-insta-stories/

Usage

import React, { Component } from 'react';

import Stories from 'react-insta-stories';

class App extends Component {
	render() {
		return (
			<Stories
				stories={stories}
				defaultInterval={1500}
				width={432}
				height={768}
			/>
		);
	}
}

const stories = [
 	//🆕! Rendering Components instead of video or images can now be done by passing a 'content' property into the story. 
	//The props contain properties 'action'(fn) and 'isPaused'(bool)
  	{
                content: ({action, isPaused}) => {
		  const handleClick=(e)=>{e.preventDefault(); action(isPaused ? 'play': 'pause') };
                  return (
                    <div onClick={handleClick}>
                  	<h2>Hi</h2>
			<span>{isPaused ? 'Paused' : 'Playing'}</span>
                    </div>
                  );
                }
        },
	{
		url: 'https://picsum.photos/1080/1920',
		seeMore: ({ close }) => (
			<div style={{ width: '100%', height: '100%' }}>Hello</div>
		),
		header: {
			heading: 'Mohit Karekar',
			subheading: 'Posted 5h ago',
			profileImage: 'https://picsum.photos/1000/1000'
		}
	},
	{
		url:
			'https://fsa.zobj.net/crop.php?r=dyJ08vhfPsUL3UkJ2aFaLo1LK5lhjA_5o6qEmWe7CW6P4bdk5Se2tYqxc8M3tcgYCwKp0IAyf0cmw9yCmOviFYb5JteeZgYClrug_bvSGgQxKGEUjH9H3s7PS9fQa3rpK3DN3nx-qA-mf6XN',
		header: {
			heading: 'Mohit Karekar',
			subheading: 'Posted 32m ago',
			profileImage: 'https://picsum.photos/1080/1920'
		}
	},
	{
		url:
			'https://media.idownloadblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/iPhone-wallpaper-abstract-portrait-stars-macinmac.jpg',
		header: {
			heading: 'mohitk05/react-insta-stories',
			subheading: 'Posted 32m ago',
			profileImage:
				'https://avatars0.githubusercontent.com/u/24852829?s=400&v=4'
		}
	},
	{
		url: 'https://storage.googleapis.com/coverr-main/mp4/Footboys.mp4',
		type: 'video',
		duration: 1000
	},
	{
		url:
			'http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ForBiggerJoyrides.mp4',
		type: 'video',
		seeMore: ({ close }) => (
			<div style={{ width: '100%', height: '100%' }}>Hello</div>
		)
	},
	{
		url:
			'http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/gtv-videos-bucket/sample/ForBiggerBlazes.mp4',
		type: 'video'
	},
	'https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1534856966153-c86d43d53fe0?ixlib=rb-1.2.1&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjEyMDd9&auto=format&fit=crop&w=564&q=80'
];

Props

Property	Type	Default	Description
stories	[String/Object]	required	An array of image urls or array of story objects (options described below)
defaultInterval	Number	1200	Milliseconds duration for which a story persists
loader	Component	Ripple loader	A loader component as a fallback until image loads from url
header	Component	Default header as in demo	A header component which sits at the top of each story. It receives the header object from the story object. Data for header to be sent with each story object.
width	Number	360	Width of the component in pixels
height	Number	640	Height of the component in pixels
storyStyles	Object	none	Override the default story styles mentioned below.
loop	Boolean	false	The last story loop to the first one and restart the stories.
New props	⭐️	⭐️	⭐️
isPaused	Boolean	false	Toggle story playing state
currentIndex	Number	undefined	Set the current story index
onStoryStart	Function	-	Callback when a story starts
onStoryEnd	Function	-	Callback when a story ends
onAllStoriesEnd	Function	-	Callback when all stories in the array have ended

Story object

Instead of simple string url, a comprehensive 'story object' can also be passed in the stories array.

Property	Description
url	The url of the resource, be it image or video.
duration	Optional. Duration for which a story should persist.
header	Optional. Adds a header on the top. Object with heading, subheading and profileImage properties.
seeMore	Optional. Adds a see more icon at the bottom of the story. On clicking, opens up this component. (v2: updated to Function instead of element)
type	Optional. To distinguish a video story. type: 'video' is necessary for a video story.
styles	Optional. Override the default story styles mentioned below.

Default story styles

Following are the default story content styles. Override them by providing your own style object with each story or a global override by using the storyStyles prop.

storyContent: {
    width: 'auto',
    maxWidth: '100%',
    maxHeight: '100%',
    margin: 'auto'
}

API

APIs will be deprecated from v2, and will be replaced by props based control. Check out '⭐️ new props' in the props table above.

Following functions can be accessed using the ref of default export, e.g. this.stories.pause()

pause(overrideHideProgress: Boolean)

Pause the currently playing story. Pass true to override the default hiding of progress bars.

play()

Play a paused story.

previous()

Jump to the previous story. Similar to when tapped on left side of the screen.

next()

Jump to the next story. Similar to when tapped on right side of the screen.

toggleSeeMore(show: Boolean)

Show or hide the Show More component. Pass true to show and otherwise.

Contributors

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License

MIT © mohitk05