This was a great project to learn from and fulfilled the requirements it set out to. Unfortunately, I can no-longer give this project the time it needs. Consider react-hot-toast as an alternative, or look at the source and make your own 🎉 (there really isn't much to it).
A configurable, composable, toast notification system for react.
https://jossmac.github.io/react-toast-notifications
yarn add react-toast-notifications
Wrap your app in the ToastProvider
, which provides context for the Toast
descendants.
import { ToastProvider, useToasts } from 'react-toast-notifications';
const FormWithToasts = () => {
const { addToast } = useToasts();
const onSubmit = async value => {
const { error } = await dataPersistenceLayer(value);
if (error) {
addToast(error.message, { appearance: 'error' });
} else {
addToast('Saved Successfully', { appearance: 'success' });
}
};
return <form onSubmit={onSubmit}>...</form>;
};
const App = () => (
<ToastProvider>
<FormWithToasts />
</ToastProvider>
);
For brevity:
PlacementType
is equal to'bottom-left' | 'bottom-center' | 'bottom-right' | 'top-left' | 'top-center' | 'top-right'
.TransitionState
is equal to'entering' | 'entered' | 'exiting' | 'exited'
.
Property | Description |
---|---|
autoDismissTimeout number |
Default 5000 . The time until a toast will be dismissed automatically, in milliseconds. |
autoDismiss boolean |
Default: false . Whether or not to dismiss the toast automatically after a timeout. |
children Node |
Required. Your app content. |
components { ToastContainer, Toast } |
Replace the underlying components. |
newestOnTop boolean |
Default false . When true, insert new toasts at the top of the stack. |
placement PlacementType |
Default top-right . Where, in relation to the viewport, to place the toasts. |
portalTargetSelector string |
Which element to attach the container's portal to. Uses document.body when not provided. |
transitionDuration number |
Default 220 . The duration of the CSS transition on the Toast component. |
Property | Description |
---|---|
appearance | Used by the default toast. One of success , error , warning , info . |
children | Required. The content of the toast notification. |
autoDismiss boolean |
Inherited from ToastProvider if not provided. |
autoDismissTimeout number |
Inherited from ToastProvider . |
onDismiss: Id => void |
Passed in dynamically. Can be called in a custom toast to dismiss it. |
placement PlacementType |
Inherited from ToastProvider . |
transitionDuration number |
Inherited from ToastProvider . |
transitionState: TransitionState |
Passed in dynamically. |
The useToast
hook has the following signature:
const {
addToast,
removeToast,
removeAllToasts,
updateToast,
toastStack,
} = useToasts();
The addToast
method has three arguments:
- The first is the content of the toast, which can be any renderable
Node
. - The second is the
Options
object, which can take any shape you like.Options.appearance
is required when using theDefaultToast
. When departing from the default shape, you must provide an alternative, compliantToast
component. - The third is an optional callback, which is passed the added toast
ID
.
The removeToast
method has two arguments:
- The first is the
ID
of the toast to remove. - The second is an optional callback.
The removeAllToasts
method has no arguments.
The updateToast
method has three arguments:
- The first is the
ID
of the toast to update. - The second is the
Options
object, which differs slightly from the add method because it accepts acontent
property. - The third is an optional callback, which is passed the updated toast
ID
.
The toastStack
is an array of objects representing the current toasts, e.g.
[
{
content: 'Something went wrong',
id: 'generated-string',
appearance: 'error',
},
{ content: 'Item saved', id: 'generated-string', appearance: 'success' },
];
To bring each toast notification inline with your app, you can provide alternative components to the ToastProvider
:
import { ToastProvider } from 'react-toast-notifications';
const MyCustomToast = ({ appearance, children }) => (
<div style={{ background: appearance === 'error' ? 'red' : 'green' }}>
{children}
</div>
);
const App = () => (
<ToastProvider components={{ Toast: MyCustomToast }}>...</ToastProvider>
);
To customize the existing component instead of creating a new one, you may import DefaultToast
:
import { DefaultToast } from 'react-toast-notifications';
export const MyCustomToast = ({ children, ...props }) => (
<DefaultToast {...props}>
<SomethingSpecial>{children}</SomethingSpecial>
</DefaultToast>
);
This library may not meet your needs. Here are some alternative I came across whilst searching for this solution: