React-placards NPM

React Placards

A placards component inspired from Stripe
ANNOUNCE your own Custom Components
Built with Typescript
Styled with Styled Components

Installation

  yarn add react-placards

Getting Started

A default height and width is given to the component but is required to render the component: Refer

  import React from 'react';
  import { Placards } from 'react-placards'
  import {CustomComponents} from '../somepath/CustomComponentLibrary.js'
  function App() {
    const items = [
      {
        id: "content-types",
        content: "You can pass in a plain text string.",
      },
      {
        id: "custom-components",
        content: <CustomComponents
          heading="Custom Components"
          date="31-01-2021"
          description={"OR you can create your own custom components"}
          {...extraProps}
        />
      }, ...];
    return (
      <div className="App">
        <Placards
          items={items}
        />
      </div>
    );
  }
  export default App;

Props

name	description	required	default
items	collection of Item Type	true	[]
width	width of the component	false	200
height	height of the component	false	200
timing	delay between card switch	false	5000
cardStyles	style definitions for Top Card Style Props	false	check Top Card Style Props
stackCardStyles	style definitions for Stacked Cards Style Props	false	check Stacked Cards Style Props
containerStyles	style definitions for Container Style Props	false	check Container Style Props

Item Type

name	description	required	type
id	unique key for each component being rendered	true	`string`
content	content that renders inside the cards	true	`string` or custom `Component`

items = [
  {
    id: 'unique-id',
    content: <MyCustomComponent {...props} />
  },
  {
    id: 'unique-id-2',
    content: 'Text content'
  }
];

Top Card Style Props

Use the props below to change the styles of top card.

Note: Top card's styles will be applied to all the item's content
For more control on styles, reset the default styles and create your own Custom Card component

name	description	required	default
backgroundColor	background-color applied to top card	false	`#ffffff`
borderRadius	border-radius applied to ALL sides of top card	false	0px
boxShadow	box-shadow behind top card	false	`0 15px 35px rgba(50, 50, 93, 0.1),0 5px 15px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.07)`
padding	padding applied to top card	false	0px

cardStyles = {
  backgroundColor: 'red',
  borderRadius: '4px',
  boxShadow: '0 10px 30px black',
  padding: '10px'
};

Stacked Card Style Props

name	description	required	default
secondColor	background-color applied to second card	false	`#f0f0f0`
thirdColor	background-color applied to third card	false	`#fafafa`

stackCardStyles = {
  secondColor: 'red',
  thirdColor: 'yellow'
};

Container Style Props

use these to place your cards inside the container

name	description	required	default
height	height of the container	false	200px
width	width of the container	false	200px
overflow	overflow of the container	false	hidden
padding	padding of the container	false	5%

stackCardStyles = {
  height: 200,
  width: 200,
  overflow: 'hidden',
  padding: '5%'
};

Passing custom height/width

By default height & width have been set to 200px. Overide them by passing custom values.

<Placards items={items} width="400" height="400" />

Passing custom timing

By default timing has been set to 5000ms. Overide it by passing custom timing.

<Placards items={items} timing="7000" />

Passing custom styling for Card

Override cardStyles by passing custom styles

<Placards
  items={items}
  cardStyles={{
    padding: '10px',
    borderRadius: '4px',
    ...moreProperties
  }}
/>

Change second and third card's background

Override background colors of second and third cards

<Placards
  items={items}
  stackCardStyles={{
    secondColor: 'red',
    thirdColor: 'yellow'
  }}
/>

react-placards v1.0.2