Hooks for virtualizing scrollable elements in React

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• Row, Column, and Grid virtualization
• One single headless hook
• Fixed, variable and dynamic measurement modes
• 

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  • Shows examples of Row, Column, and Grid layouts
  • Shows examples of fixed, variable, and dynamic sizing

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• Installation
• Sample
• API
  • useVirtual
• Contributors ✨

$ npm i --save react-virtual
# or
$ yarn add react-virtual

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React Virtual's most distinguishing feature is that it's just one single custom hook instead of a set of components. In more trendy terms, this means that it is "headless", allowing you to control 100% all of the markup and styles, exactly how you want.

React Virtual supplies you with primitive utilities that allow you to build any range of virtualized experiences. One testament to this is that you can combine 2 instances of useVirtual onto the same markup to achieve a virtualized grid, where with other utilites, you would need to use a dedicated Grid-like component.

This is just a quick sample of what it looks like to use React Virtual. Please refer to the examples for more usage patterns.

function RowVirtualizerFixed() {
  const parentRef = React.useRef()

  const rowVirtualizer = useVirtual({
    size: 10000,
    parentRef,
    estimateSize: React.useCallback(() => 35, []),
  })

  return (
    <>
      <div
        ref={parentRef}
        className="List"
        style={{
          height: `150px`,
          width: `300px`,
          overflow: 'auto',
        }}
      >
        <div
          className="ListInner"
          style={{
            height: `${rowVirtualizer.totalSize}px`,
            width: '100%',
            position: 'relative',
          }}
        >
          {rowVirtualizer.virtualItems.map(virtualRow => (
            <div
              key={virtualRow.index}
              className={virtualRow.index % 2 ? 'ListItemOdd' : 'ListItemEven'}
              style={{
                position: 'absolute',
                top: 0,
                left: 0,
                width: '100%',
                height: `${virtualRow.size}px`,
                transform: `translateY(${virtualRow.start}px)`,
              }}
            >
              Row {virtualRow.index}
            </div>
          ))}
        </div>
      </div>
    </>
  )
}

const {
  items: [
    { index, start, size, end, measureRef },
    /* ... */
  ],
  totalSize,
  scrollToIndex,
  scrollToOffset,
} = useVirtual({
  size,
  parentRef,
  estimateSize,
  overscan,
  horiztonal,
})

• size: Integer
  • Required
  • The size of the virtualizer
• parentRef: React.useRef(DOMElement)
  • Required
  • The parent element whose inner-content is scrollable
• estimateSize: Function(index) => Integer
  • Required
  • Must be memoized using React.useCallback()
  • This function recieves the index of each item and should return either:
    • A fixed size
    • A variable size per-item
    • A best-guess size (when using dynamic measurement rendering)
  • When this function's memoization changes, the entire list is recalculated
• overscan: Integer
  • The amount of items to load both behind and ahead of the current window range
  • Defaults to 1
• horizontal: Boolean
  • When true, this virtualizer will use width and scrollLeft instead of height and scrollTop to determine size and offset of virtualized items.

• items: Array<item>
  • item: Object
    • index: Integer
      • The index of the item
    • start: Integer
      • The starting measurement of the item
      • Most commonly used for positioning elements
    • size: Integer
      • The static/variable or, if dynamically rendered, the measured size of the item
    • end: Integer
      • The ending measurement of the item
    • measureRef: React.useRef | Function(el: DOMElement) => void 0
      • The ref/function to place on the rendered element to enable dynamic measurement rendering
• totalSize: Integer
  • The total size of the entire virtualizer
  • When using dynamic measurement refs, this number may change as items are measured after they are rendered.
• scrollToIndex: Function(index: Integer) => void 0
  • Call this function to scroll the top/left of the parentRef element to the start of the item located at the passed index.
• scrollToOffset: Function(offsetInPixels: Integer) => void 0
  • Call this function to scroll the top/left of the parentRef element to the passed pixel offset.

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

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