react-use-breakpoint

Rational

A React hook to get the current breakpoint via the MatchMedia API. Tiny, fast, and easy to use. I created this as I found myself copying this bad boy around every project I did... so I figured I'd make it a package. Other plugins out there are not exactly what I needed, and although I think getting breakpoints in JS should be a last resort. There is undoubtedly a time and place for it. Especially as designers design more creative layouts that are not easily achievable with CSS alone.

Getting Started

Install the package

npm install react-use-breakpoint
yarn add react-use-breakpoint

Wrap your apps root component with the BreakpointProvider component. This will provide the useBreakpoint hook to all child components.

import {BreakpointProvider} from 'react-use-breakpoint';

const App = () => (
    <BreakpointProvider>
        <MyComponent/>
    </BreakpointProvider>
);

The default breakpoint size values are:

Breakpoint	Size (px)
xs	360
sm	640
md	960
lg	1280
xl	1440

You can customise these values xs, sm, md, lg, xl to fit your needs like so (strings or numbers are accepted):

import {BreakpointProvider} from 'react-use-breakpoint';

const App = () => (
    <BreakpointProvider
        breakpointOverrides={{
            xs: 360,
            sm: '400'
        }}
    >
        <MyComponent/>
    </BreakpointProvider>
);

Hook Usage

Within all child components you can then leverage the useBreakpoint() hook to get the current breakpoints.

Specifying no arguments will return an object with min and max breakpoints { min: {...}, max: {...} }. The function overload handles the types for you 😉.

import {useBreakpoint} from 'react-use-breakpoint';

const MyComponent = () => {
    const {min} = useBreakpoint();
    const {isXs} = min;

    return <div>Current breakpoint: {breakpoint}</div>;
};

If you specify a breakpoint "direction" (min or max) you will get an object back with all the breakpoint sizes and their assigned boolean value.

import {useBreakpoint} from 'react-use-breakpoint';

const MyComponent = () => {
    const {isXs, isSm, isMd} = useBreakpoint('min');
    // isXs = true
    // isSm = false
    // isMd = false
...
    return <div>Current breakpoint: {breakpoint}</div>;
};

Feature Requests...

Sure... open up an issue, and I'll see what I can do.

Todo

• Add tests for the hook